---
title: "How to create New Contacts and Companies"
description: "A guide on how to create Contacts and Companies in Crono"
url: https://help.crono.one/en/articles/6-how-to-create-new-contacts-and-companies
collection: "Lists"
updated: 2026-10-28
language: en
---

# How to create New Contacts and Companies

A guide on how to create Contacts and Companies in Crono

There are four ways to add new contacts and companies into Crono.

### **1\. Manual entry**

The simplest way to add a contact or company is to type in the details yourself. From your **Lists** page, click the **+Add** button in the top-right corner.

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Fill in everything you have for that contact or company, then confirm with **Add** at the bottom right of the creation window.

Best when you have a handful of leads to add, or want to be sure every detail is right.

### **2\. Find New**

Find New is Crono's built-in prospecting search: apply filters, find the people and companies that match your target audience, and add them straight into your database.

**Find New searches one of two data sources, and which one you get depends on your LinkedIn licence:**

-   **Sales Navigator** — if you have an active Sales Navigator licence, Find New uses it by default, giving you its full filter set and the Include / Exclude and AND / OR / NOT options.
    
-   **The Crono Database** — if you do not have Sales Navigator, Find New searches Crono's own database instead. You can still filter and build a target list; the available filters differ.
    

Either way you select the results you want and add them to Crono, optionally enriching them, tagging them, assigning an owner or enrolling them into a sequence as you go.

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Full walkthroughs: [finding and creating contacts](https://help.crono.one/en/articles/66-how-to-find-and-create-contacts-from-find-new.md) and [finding and creating companies](https://help.crono.one/en/articles/67-how-to-find-and-create-companies-from-find-new.md).

### **3\. The browser extension**

If you spend your day on LinkedIn or Sales Navigator, the Crono extension lets you add people without leaving the page. On any profile, click **Add to Crono**; on a search results page, open the extension panel and click **Find** to pull in everyone on the page.

Before importing you can enrich the records, add them to a list, apply tags, change ownership, and enrol contacts into a sequence — individually or in bulk.

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Step by step: [How to add contacts and companies from LinkedIn](https://help.crono.one/en/articles/68-how-to-add-contacts-and-companies-from-linkedin.md).

### **4\. Bulk import from a CSV**

To add a large number of records at once, upload a CSV and map its columns to Crono's fields.

1.  Choose whether you are importing **Contacts** or **Companies** — they are separate imports.
    
2.  Upload your CSV file.
    
3.  Map every column to the matching Crono field. Keep **first name and last name in separate columns**, or personalisation variables will not resolve later.
    
4.  Optionally enrich the records as they come in, to fill gaps your file does not cover.
    

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**Choosing between Contacts and Companies import**

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**Uploading the file**

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**Mapping the columns**

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**Enriching as you import**

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Enrichment during import spends credits in the normal way — see [Credits in Crono](https://help.crono.one/en/articles/98-credits-in-crono-what-they-are-and-what-uses-them.md).