What is the Contact UUID?

What is the Contact UUID?

Contact UUID (universal unique identifier) is an identifier for contacts in your system.

  • X-CD uses this field internally for tracking and matching purposes.
  • You will see this field displayed near the top of a contact profile. In addition, this field is included in some of the contact module reports/download files.
  • A contact's UUID is useful when using the update contacts option on the import Contacts screen.
  • If you export contact data from the contacts module, you will see the contact UUID in the file.
  • You can then copy/paste some of the data in to the "contact import" template used by the system.
  • If you include the contact UUID value in the import file, then the system will know that you are actually trying to update an existing contact.
  • Using the contact UUID with the contact import function, allows you to batch edit your contacts safely.

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