# Add Contact

**Step 1:** Go to contact section in <https://app.chatio.io> and click **Add Contact** in top right corner

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**Step 2:** You can either manually save the contact by typing First Name & Last Name and Phone Number with country code without + sign and Email Address then click on the “Save Contact“ button or Download the same file and Import the contacts in bulk.

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**Step 3**: When you upload contact file, you wil get pop up whether you **want to add contacts in a specific group OR Create New Group**

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**Step 4**: Once you click Yes, you will be redirected to another pop up to select Group or Create a group.

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**Step 5**: You can add country code while importing to panel or in sample you can add country code and you can upload.

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**Step 6:** Now Map the contacts correctly to the columns and click save.

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