Importing from Brivity

Brivity is a special case. Its export splits one contact across dozens of columns: separate fields for personal, work, and other emails; mobile, home, and work phones; numbered note columns; and a block of address fields per address type. Closr recognizes the Brivity layout and stitches all of that back into clean contacts. The path is CSV. There is no API connector for Brivity today.

Steps

1. 1In Brivity, export your contacts to a CSV. Export the full report so the email, phone, note, and address columns all come through.
2. 2In Closr, drag the CSV into chat (or use the paperclip).
3. 3Closr detects the Brivity format and stitches the split columns together before the preview.
4. 4Review the new-versus-duplicate counts, then click Import.

What Closr does with the split columns

• •**Email:** picks the first non-empty across personal, work, then other.
• •**Phone:** picks the first non-empty across mobile, home, work, then other.
• •**Notes:** joins all of your numbered note columns into one notes field, in order, keeping the dates Brivity stamps on each.
• •**Addresses:** folds each address block (home, mailing, work, investment) into the contact's custom fields rather than dropping loose cells.