Your customer list has its own page, and you can import one from a spreadsheet

SIMCOAI has kept a record for each of your customers for a while now — it is how the AI recognises a regular from the number they are ringing from instead of asking them to spell out an email address again. Until today that list sat under Growth in your dashboard, which is not where anyone looked for it, and the only way to put a customer on it by hand was to wait for one to ring.

The customer list is now its own page under Operations, next to the orders, refunds, bookings and escalations that are attached to it. That is where you were looking, and it is where it belongs.

You can also bring in the list you already hold. Download a template, or use an export from whatever you use now, and import it. We read the usual column names — and the variations, so “Email Address”, “Mobile”, “Surname” and “Organisation” all land in the right place — and a column named after one of your own custom fields is read into it. Anyone already on your list is matched on their email address or phone number and updated rather than added a second time, so re-importing the same file changes nothing and a nightly export is safe to run again and again.

You are told what happened to every row: added, updated, already on file, or skipped and why. A row with neither an email address nor a phone number is named rather than quietly dropped, because there would be nothing for the AI to recognise that person by. And you can export your list back out as a spreadsheet whenever you want it, on any plan.

Editing a customer is better too. It used to be three small browser boxes asking for a name, then an email, then a phone number, one after the other, with no way to see what you were changing and nothing else editable at all. Now it is a proper form on the page, with their company, notes, status and your own custom fields on it.

How the customer list works

What changed

The customer list moved into Operations and gained spreadsheet import, export and a fuller editing form. It makes an existing contact list useful to the receptionist without waiting for every customer to phone first.

Import recognises common column names and variations, including names, phone numbers, email addresses and company details. Columns matching your custom fields can also bring in the business-specific context you keep for a customer.

Before and after

Before this update: The list sat under Growth, and adding a customer by hand depended on the old workflow. Editing used separate browser prompts with very limited fields.

With this update: Customers has its own Operations page. Imports match existing customers by email or phone, report row outcomes and support updating rather than creating a duplicate. A full form exposes notes, company, status and custom fields.

What it means for you

Use the template or a suitable export, check the identifying email and phone columns, and read the import report. A row without either identifier is skipped with an explanation because it cannot be matched reliably.

Review the result before treating the file as a clean customer list. Re-importing matching records is supported, but incorrect contact details can still cause matching problems; keep the source data accurate and export a copy when you need it.

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