> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orbit.devotel.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bulk import contacts > Import up to 10,000 contacts in a single request. Each contact must have at least a phone (E.164-ish) or email. Returns inserted/skipped counts plus an `import_job_id` that can be used to download the skipped-rows CSV (`GET /import-jobs/{id}/skipped.csv`) and to roll back within 24 hours. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml post /api/v1/contacts/bulk openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Devotel CPaaS API description: Orbit by Devotel — Communications Platform as a Service API version: 1.0.0 contact: name: Devotel url: https://devotel.io email: support@devotel.io license: name: Proprietary servers: - url: https://api.orbit.devotel.io description: Production security: - Bearer: [] - ApiKey: [] tags: - name: Messages description: >- Send and manage messages across all channels (SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Email, Viber, etc.) - name: Fax description: >- List and track fax (MMS/T.38) transmissions on Telnyx-backed fax numbers (sending flows through the Messaging API) - name: Agents description: AI agent creation, configuration, and execution - name: Voice description: Voice calls, IVR, conferencing, and SIP trunking - name: OnCall description: On-call rotations and escalation policy planning for incident alerting - name: Webhooks description: Webhook endpoint management and delivery logs - name: Numbers description: Phone number search, provisioning, and configuration - name: Brand Identity description: >- Unified cross-channel brand trust posture (10DLC, toll-free, WhatsApp, RCS, branded calling, number KYC) - name: Contacts description: Contact management, segmentation, and lifecycle tracking - name: Campaigns description: Marketing campaign orchestration and analytics - name: Flows description: Automation flow builder and execution engine - name: Templates description: Message template management and approval workflows - name: Settings description: Organization, channel, and user preference settings - name: Verify description: OTP generation and verification across channels - name: Push description: Push notification delivery via FCM and APNs - name: Integrations description: Third-party service connections and OAuth management - name: CDP description: >- Customer Data Platform — activation surface (CRM object sync, streaming destinations, ad-audience activation) - name: Files description: >- Server-to-server media upload, listing, retrieval, and deletion (signed-URL backed) - name: Commerce description: >- Omnichannel conversational-commerce — persistent cart + checkout state machine, channel-agnostic hosted pay-by-link, native WhatsApp checkout, and AP2-style agent payment mandates. - name: Sync description: >- Real-time shared-state primitive (Twilio Sync parity) — Documents, Maps, Lists, and ephemeral Streams, with change events relayed over the /api/v1/ws/sync WebSocket gateway paths: /api/v1/contacts/bulk: post: tags: - Contacts summary: Bulk import contacts description: >- Import up to 10,000 contacts in a single request. Each contact must have at least a phone (E.164-ish) or email. Returns inserted/skipped counts plus an `import_job_id` that can be used to download the skipped-rows CSV (`GET /import-jobs/{id}/skipped.csv`) and to roll back within 24 hours. requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object required: - contacts properties: contacts: type: array minItems: 1 maxItems: 10000 items: type: object properties: phone: type: string minLength: 4 maxLength: 64 description: >- Phone number — E.164 preferred; tolerant of whitespace, punctuation, and PBX-extension suffixes (`x1234`, `;ext=1234`). Per-row normalisation runs server-side; un-parseable rows surface in the skipped-rows CSV. email: type: string format: email first_name: type: string last_name: type: string display_name: type: string company: type: string job_title: type: string country_code: type: string timezone: type: string language: type: string tags: type: array items: type: string attributes: type: object additionalProperties: true lifecycle_stage: type: string lead_status: type: string contact_owner: type: string raw_rows: type: array maxItems: 10000 items: type: object additionalProperties: type: string maxLength: 2000 description: >- Original CSV row as header→cell. ≤32 columns, ≤2KB per cell. Surfaced in the skipped-rows CSV. client_skipped: type: array maxItems: 10000 items: type: object required: - row_index - raw - reason properties: row_index: type: integer minimum: 0 raw: type: object additionalProperties: type: string reason: type: string maxLength: 500 base_row_index: type: integer minimum: 0 responses: '201': description: Import job accepted content: application/json: schema: type: object description: Import job accepted properties: data: type: object additionalProperties: true properties: inserted: type: integer updated: type: integer skipped: type: integer import_job_id: type: string rollback_until: type: - 'null' - string format: date-time description: >- ISO timestamp until which a POST /imports/{id}/rollback will succeed (24h window). meta: type: object properties: request_id: type: string description: >- Unique request identifier (also returned in X-Request-Id header) timestamp: type: string format: date-time description: ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of the response '422': description: Default Response content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: object required: - code - message - status properties: code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable error code (e.g. INVALID_PHONE_NUMBER) message: type: string description: Human-readable error description status: type: integer description: HTTP status code details: type: object additionalProperties: true description: Additional context about the error meta: type: object properties: request_id: type: string timestamp: type: string format: date-time docs_url: type: string format: uri description: Link to relevant error documentation components: securitySchemes: Bearer: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT description: Dashboard JWT token from Clerk ApiKey: type: apiKey name: X-API-Key in: header description: Server-to-server API key (dv_live_sk_*) ````