How do I add contacts? – RocketReach

Finding Contacts in RocketReach

RocketReach gives you three simple and flexible ways to find and add contacts. Whether you’re browsing online, searching with filters, or enriching a list you already have, you can quickly pull verified contact details into your workflow.

💡Reminder! Once you find the desired person(s), use the "Get Contact Info" or "Add" button to reveal the available verified email addresses and phone numbers. Learn More

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Browser Extension
Filtered Search
Upload a List
Quick Tips
FAQs

Browser Extension

The RocketReach desktop Chrome Extension is the quickest, easiest way to look up contact and company information while you’re researching online.

Social Media Pages
Company websites

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When you're browsing for contacts on LinkedIn, just click the flag on the right and confirm the profile shown in the extension. Then, click the add button to get contact information for that person. It's just like using the RocketReach search interface, but with the convenience of browsing on the go. You can also use the browser extension on company websites. Navigate to the menu and enable RocketReach everywhere to enable RocketReach on websites like Apple. From here, you can also view employees or click this button here to open a tab with the same search on RocketReach.

Social Media: Get Professional Contacts, Fast

If you spot a prospect on a social network, the extension can surface their contact details in just a few clicks—no switching tabs, no searching from scratch.

Company Websites: Find Out Who Works at Any Company

Browsing a company’s website? Open the extension to immediately see who works there, along with their roles and available contact information.

Company Info at Your Fingertips

The built-in Company Info tab gives you quick access to firmographics—employees, location details, revenue estimates, and more—based on the page you’re viewing.

Why Users Trust the RocketReach Extension

Trusted by 13 million users
Over 300,000 downloads
Works on popular social media sites and millions of company pages
Returns contact info for at least 85% of prospects, with real-time SMTP validation
Backed by a database of 700M+ profiles across 60M companies

🔗 Chrome users can download the extension here: Get the extension

The extension is the fastest option when you're researching people one at a time.

Search with Filters

Filtered Search helps you discover new contacts based on specific criteria. This is ideal when you know the type of person you want to reach, even if you don’t have names yet.

Use filters on the left-hand side to narrow your search by:

Name
Location
Job title
Department or role
Industry
Skills
Years of experience
Employer
And additional advanced filters you can scroll down to access

🔗 For a detailed tutorial on how to build a search, please check out this step-by-step guide.

Once your results appear, click Get Contact Info next to any profile to reveal verified emails or phone numbers.

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Once you've completed adding your search criteria and you're satisfied with how the results look, you have several options to start accessing contact data. You can add contacts one at a time using the get contact info button here on the right hand side. You can also use the check boxes to select specific profiles or even use the check box at the top here to select the entire page, and then you could optionally deselect specific profiles. And with your finished selection, use this get contacts button to look up multiple profiles at once. However, if you're looking for more than twenty five contacts and especially if you need more than fifty contacts, we recommend that you utilize the autopilot option, which is down here on the bottom corner. Autopilot is perfect for when you need to add many contacts from your search results. It does have a minimum requirement for twenty five contacts, but you can typically add several thousand up to ten thousand contacts or for our enterprise customers up to thirty thousand. And I love that it has this feature which lets you very quickly filter down to a specific number of contacts per company. You can adjust this as needed or even disable it if you're interested in accessing the entire list of matching search results. If you just need this as a one time list, you can leave this here as a one time frequency, but you could also set this to receive contacts automatically on a set schedule. Make sure you give this a name so that all of the contacts will be organized together. I like to make a name that reflects my search criteria or the project that I'm working on. And for extra benefit, you can also optionally send an email from your saved templates so that all of these contacts will automatically receive a email upon lookup. Make sure you hit create. And then after one final confirmation, activate and that will provide a list of contacts for you in the Autopilot history. You can very easily manage to the Autopilot history here or on the left hand side. Here's Autopilot. Depending on how many contacts you requested, it will take a few minutes for your list to be prepared. But once it's all finished, you can come here to the actions menu and download that as a CSV spreadsheet.

Upload a List (Bulk Lookups)

If you already have a list of people or companies, the Upload List tool can enrich that list with updated contact information—hundreds at a time.

‼️ Important Note for Accounts With Export Credits: Because the People CSV Upload List workflow automatically generates an exportable results file, each verified enriched contact will use an export credit for accounts that include export credits.

To get started:

Navigate to Upload List from the left-hand menu
Upload a CSV containing names, domains, or both
Map your columns
Submit the file for enrichment
Download your updated list once processing is complete

This workflow is great for Account-Based Marketing (ABM) targeting, inbound lead enrichment, and large outbound campaigns.

Basic instructions are provided within the Upload List tool, or follow a full walkthrough here.

Quick Tips

A lookup is only spent when you reveal a verified email or phone number.
Contacts added through CSV Upload List will automatically receive a tag based on the upload name, making it easy to filter and manage those contacts in My Contacts.
Because the People CSV Upload List workflow automatically generates an exportable results file, each verified enriched contact will use an export credit for accounts that include export credits.
All added contacts from the Chrome Extension, Advanced Search, and Upload List Tool can be exported, filtered, and organized within My Contacts to support your outreach workflow.

FAQs

❓ Does adding a contact always use a lookup credit?

No. A lookup is only used when you reveal a verified email address or phone number. Browsing profiles or running searches does not use lookups.

❓ Does Upload List (CSV) use export credits?

Yes. Because the People CSV Upload List workflow automatically generates an exportable results file, each verified enriched contact uses an export credit for accounts that include export credits.

❓ How are contacts tagged when I use the CSV Upload List tool?

When you upload a list, RocketReach automatically assigns a system-generated tag based on the file name.

This tag cannot be edited or removed from the enriched contacts.
Before uploading, you may also choose to add your own custom tags. These user-created tags can be edited or removed later.

This setup helps you quickly filter and organize upload results inside My Contacts while still allowing flexibility with your own tagging structure.

❓ Can I use the RocketReach Extension without opening RocketReach?

Yes. The extension works directly on social media profiles and company websites, allowing you to look up contacts without switching tabs.

❓ What’s the difference between using Search and using the Upload List tool?

Filtered Search helps you discover new contacts using filters like title, industry, company, or location.
Upload List enriches a list you already have by returning verified contact info for many people at once.

❓ What’s the difference between lookup credits and export credits across workflows?

Here’s how credits are used depending on the workflow:

Chrome Extension → Uses lookup credits only when you reveal a verified email or phone number.
Filtered Search → Uses lookup credits only when you reveal a verified email or phone number.
CSV Upload List → Uses lookup and export credits, because the workflow automatically generates an exportable results file for all verified enriched contacts.

❓ Where do my saved contacts go?

All revealed contacts—and all enriched Upload List results—appear in My Contacts, where you can filter, tag, export, and manage them.

Additional Resources

What do all the icons mean?

How is a contact lookup counted?

How do I export my contacts?