How to export your contacts from Stacks

Your contacts are yours. Whenever you want a copy — for a backup, an accountant, a mail-merge, or to move data into another tool — Stacks can prepare a CSV of your contact details. Standard downloads need no export fee or support ticket. This is a contact export; it is not a complete workspace backup.

Before you start

• Exporting is an admin or manager action. If you're a team member or a view-only user, you won't see the Export button — ask an admin or manager to run it for you.
• You'll get a CSV file — the universal spreadsheet format that opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, and imports into virtually any other tool.
• Nothing else to set up: exporting is free on every plan, with the same technical download limits on every plan.

Step by step

1. Open your contacts. In Stacks, click Contacts in the left menu to open your contact list.
2. Click Export CSV. In the toolbar at the top-right of the list — next to Import CSV and + New Contact — click Export CSV.
3. Save the file. Your browser downloads a file named contacts_YYYY-MM-DD.csv (today's date), containing every contact in your account.
4. Open it anywhere. Double-click to open it in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers — or upload it straight into whatever tool you're moving to.

Good to know

• What's in the file. Each row is one contact, with these columns: Contact ID, Company ID, First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Job Title, Company, City, State, Source, Status, Created, and Updated.
• List filters do not apply. The export reads your account's contacts up to the record ID present when it starts. It does not create a transactionally consistent snapshot while other people are editing records.
• Company links are identifiable. The Company ID and Company columns identify an account-owned linked company. Full company records are not included; authorized integrations can retrieve them through the companies API.
• Download limits. A CSV may contain up to 50,000 rows and 64 MiB. Larger requests fail with an explanation rather than returning a truncated file. Authorized integrations can page through supported records using the API; there is no background full-backup job.
• It's recorded. Every export is written to your audit log along with the number of contacts, to record who requested it and when.

Cells that could be interpreted as spreadsheet formulas receive a leading apostrophe. Preserve that text treatment when opening the file in a spreadsheet; use the JSON API for exact machine-readable values.

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