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Build your address book

Import your phone's contacts or a spreadsheet, tidy them into households with real names, and keep everyone's details current.

Everyone you invite lives in the address book, grouped by household: one invite per household, with each person’s name, phone and email. Getting it right once makes every party after it easy, so it’s the first step on Parties under Getting started:

1. Bring in your contacts (below).
2. Tidy up what came in.
3. Plan a party, Review guests, and send.

Import your iPhone contacts

1. On your iPhone, open the Contacts app (its own app, not the contacts in the Phone app).
2. Tap Lists at the top left, then touch and hold All Contacts (or a list you made for parties).
3. Tap Export, turn off Photo and Notes, tap Done, then Save to Files.
4. In letsparty, open Address book, tap Import, choose the file, and tap Import at the bottom.

Anyone already in the address book (the same phone or email) is skipped, so you can import again later without making doubles.

Import a spreadsheet

Save the sheet as a CSV file (any spreadsheet app can, and contacts exports often are) and choose it under Import, or copy the rows, header included, and paste them into the box. Columns named Household, First name, Last name (or one Name column), Phone, Email, Kid, Lists, Address and Birthday are matched for you, and rows with the same Household come in as one household.

To put everyone from one import on a list, fill in Put everyone imported on this list.

Add someone by hand

Tap Add someone. One person is a household of one; tap + Add another person for a partner or kids, and tick Kid for children. Tick Gets invites for each person who should get the text or email. A Birthday feeds Your year. Save and add another keeps you going.

Tidy up what you imported

A phone’s contacts come in one person at a time, with whatever you named them: nicknames, emoji, “Mike’s GF”, the same person from two phones. Right after an import, tap Next: tidy up what you imported, or Tidy up in the address book any time. It lists what to fix, each with its fix right there:

• The same people twice: the same phone or email in two households. Tap Merge.
• Families split apart: the same last name at the same address. Tap Combine and the family gets one invite with everyone’s name on it.
• Names from a contact card: type the name you’d write on an envelope (it’s filled in with the emoji taken out), then Save.
• No way to reach them: add a phone or email, or Put away the household.

If something’s right as it is, Keep separate or It’s fine and it won’t be asked again. The address book shows how many things are left until there are none.

Put couples and families together

Imports bring everyone in separately, and Tidy up only spots couples who share a phone, email or address. In the address book, tap Select, tick the people who live together, and tap Combine into one household. letsparty suggests a name like “Sarah & Mike Jones”. On a household’s own page, Combine households merges it into another, or moves just one person.

Keep details current

Guests confirm their own details. After they RSVP, the invite asks “Are your phone, email and address still right?” if they haven’t checked in six months. You can ask, too: open a household and, under Their details, tap Send the link. Or tap Select, tick households, and tap Ask them to check their details to email each one its own link.

The address book shows how fresh each household’s details are: Party-ready (confirmed in the last six months), the month they last confirmed, or May be out of date.

Lists

On a household’s page, put it on lists like Family, Neighbors or Book club (type new ones under New lists). The address book filters by list, and when you pick guests for a party, + Neighbors (12) adds the whole list at once.

The holiday card list

Once households have a mailing address, Holiday card list downloads them all as a spreadsheet: the name for the envelope, the address, and how fresh it is. Export downloads the whole address book.