Contacts Management
Contacts and groups are the address book behind your DartPro messages. Build your list once, sort it into groups, then message a few people or whole groups at a time.
Contacts and Groups
- Contacts hold one person's details. Open them from Contacts in the left sidebar.
- Groups are named lists of contacts, such as Customers or Lagos Staff. Open them from Groups in the left sidebar.
A contact can belong to as many groups as you like. Deleting a group never deletes the contacts in it. Removing a contact from a group leaves the contact in your contacts.
What a Contact Holds
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Title | Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Prof, Dr, Engr or Architect, or your own |
| First Name | Required when you add a contact by hand |
| Other Names | Middle or other names |
| Family Name | Surname |
| Gender | Male, Female or Not Required |
| Organization | Company or organization |
| Mobile | The number messages are sent to |
| Email address | |
| Groups | The groups the contact belongs to |
Every contact needs a mobile number or an email address. Only contacts with a mobile number receive SMS.
💡 One contact per mobile number
The mobile number identifies a contact. When you add or import a number that's already in your contacts, DartPro updates that contact instead of creating a duplicate.
Guides
| I want to… | Guide |
|---|---|
| Add one person by hand | How do I Create a Contact? |
| Bring in contacts from a spreadsheet or Google | How do I Import Contacts? |
| Change a contact's details or groups | How do I Update a Contact? |
| Remove contacts | How do I Delete a Contact? |
| Start a new list | How do I Create a Group? |
| Add, move or remove group members, or copy a group | How do I Manage Group Members? |
| Let people join or leave a group by text | How do I Let Contacts Opt In by SMS? |
| Remove a group | How do I Delete a Group? |
| Copy contacts to Google Contacts | How do I Export Contacts? |
| Send SMS to contacts and groups | How do I Message My Contacts? |
How Contacts Power Your Messages
- Message a few people: select contacts and click Message. Compose SMS opens with their numbers filled in.
- Broadcast to groups: select groups and click Message Groups to reach everyone in them at once.
- Personalize: send a template such as
Hello [first_name]to a group, and each contact sees their own name. - No double messages: a contact in two of the groups you picked still gets the message once.
For the full walkthrough, see How do I Message My Contacts?.
Finding a Contact
- Type in Filter Contacts to search by name, mobile number, email, organization or title.
- Choose 10, 25, 50 or 100 rows per page.
- Click a contact to see its details and the groups it belongs to.
Limits at a Glance
| Item | Limit |
|---|---|
| First Name (added by hand) | 2 to 32 characters |
| Mobile (added by hand) | 7 to 16 characters |
| Group Name | 2 to 64 characters, one group per name |
| Group Description | Up to 1,000 characters |
| Recipients in Compose SMS | 2,000 numbers per message |
| Spreadsheet import | Excel or CSV with a mobile or phone column |
Using the API
You can also manage contacts and groups from your own software. See the Contacts and Groups API references.