Importing Your Data From

Google Contacts into Breeze

We'd love to help your transition from Google Contacts into Breeze go as smoothly as possible. If you get stuck along the way, have any questions, or would prefer to have us import your data (at no additional cost), don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.

Exporting Data from Google Contacts

Exporting People

  1. Sign in to Gmail
  2. Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose "Contacts"
  3. From the Contacts page, select "More" from the left menu.
  4. You will now be able to see the "Export", select it.
  5. Choose whether to export all contacts or only one group.
  6. Select the format in which you'd like to export your contacts' information
    • Select the "Outlook CSV format"
  7. Click "Export" button

Importing Data into Breeze

  1. Sign in to your Breeze Account
  2. Click the More tab in the top right
  3. Click Tasks from the dropdown
  4. Click the category on the left that you'd like to import (e.g. People, Giving, Tags, etc)
  5. Download and open the template file
  6. Remove the sample data and populate the template file by copy/pasting applicable columns from your Google Contacts exported file(s). Be sure to keep the first row of the template file intact.
  7. Save file as a .csv file type.
  8. When finished, use the same screen to upload your file to complete the import
For more details on importing data into Breeze, see our documentation on importing.