Individual contacts and team contacts

Is there a way to add an Individual Contact to a Team's contact list or share Contact Groups? We use both individual and team contacts all the team. Do we have to do double entry on them all? 

Cori Morris - Thanks for letting us know. And yes, a way to share would be good. This is going to mean that we'll have 1000s of contacts that must be duplicated. Is there a 3rd party solution/plugin that would allow us to share? It is not a minor thing for us. 

This is easily the worst thing about Front for us. We are having recreate hundreds and hundreds of contacts. It is one big mess and it is only going to get worse. How big of a priority is this on the Front roadmap? 

For example, we have two teams, plus 3 individuals that need to work with the same 300+ contacts. In order to share just the basic contact data this means we'll have to have 1500 contacts in Front instead of just 300. Am I understanding this correctly? 

Team A = 300 contacts
Team B = 300 contacts
Staff A (private) = 300 contacts
Staff B (private) = 300 contacts 
Staff C (private) = 300 contacts
Total = 1500 contacts

That is 1200 unnecessary contacts since it is just the same 300 contacts across all the above. 

Using a CRM will help some, but not a ton because we have to manage support tickets across these teams and individuals as well. 

This screws up search, filters, etc... or at least it is appearing to. What is the recommended solution here? Like I said 3 months ago, this is going to grow into the 1000s. Why is there no "master contact list" shared across all of Front that we can opt into? 

Hi Leslie, 

Our product manager is going to reach out to you directly. We appreciate this feedback and for bringing it to our attention! 

Thanks!

We have been very happy with the functionality of FRONT, however I would certainly like to have better management of the contacts.  This includes being able to NOT have contacts that come from our web chats automatically saving to our contact.  Also, if you want to delete contacts, you have to do one at a time, there should be a way to mark and delete all at once. 

Todd Ritrievi Hi Todd, thank you so much for the feedback! I think I can address some of them for you:

1) Automatically saving contacts - this is a preference that the company admin can turn on/off for the company, within Settings > Contacts.

2) Bulk delete contacts - you can select multiple contacts by holding down the COMAND or SHIFT key and clicking, then delete all the selections at once.

Helena Li Thanks I am the admin.  I found the toggle and turned it off.  Thanks

Any chance that contacts are going to get some love now that the new front is being released?

While we would love to be able to use Front as a better CRM, ideally just some basic improvements would go a long way.

Thanks!

Adam Bate Hi Adam! We'd love to hear more about what you envision for contacts. Email us at support@frontapp.com to tell us how you think we can improve that and I will be happy to share with our product team :)

Helena Li Thanks! I think Leslie touched on most of this - it's the sharing and duplication issues that we're struggling with.

Yep, really surprised too, that I can't simply take a private contact and share it with my team!

Really hope something like this gets added soon.

I'm with the other people who posted that there should be a global contact list and there should not be a need to replicate thousands of contacts, which is what our collection of teams needs to do. The customer/contact is the same no matter which team it goes to. 

I'm putting in my vote for this feature as well. 

Hi Florian Bienefelt Steve Eli David Edmonson 🙂We hear you! I've added all your votes to the feature request and bumped it up for our product team to review again. We're trying to hard to prioritize and schedule the most popular requests for the product and definitely appreciate the feedback we get from you about what you feel is important. Thanks!

Thank you. If we cannot "merge" or "transfer" contacts, the next best alternative would be to Import/Export. I was very surprised to find that you cannot Export Contacts. Contacts are also not available via Zapier. So, it seems the only option for us at this time is custom API work. However, your API documentation contains an error related to contacts: https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/contacts#get_contacts: 

There was an error rendering this endpoint. If you are the owner of this project please contact support@readme.io with the following error:

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David Edmonson  Thanks for reporting this, our API engineers are aware of these errors and are actively working to resolve it.

Hi there, is there any update on moving individual contacts to shared contacts, or the sync between them? Seems like this was first highlighted a couple years ago now

Sam Hey Sam, it's currently not possible to move individual contacts to shared contacts at this time, it's an existing feature request in our backlog. We'll let you know when this becomes possible in the future.