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Import Limits

Limits for importing data depend on the type of record.

You can import data from ACT!, Outlook, and any program that can save data in the CSV (comma-separated values) format, such as Excel or GoldMine.

Type of record Import record limit User permissions needed
Business accounts and contacts owned by you 50,000 at a time via the Data Import Wizard

Import Personal Contacts
Business accounts and contacts owned by other users 50,000 at a time

Modify All Data
Person accounts owned by you 50,000 at a time

Create on accounts

AND

Edit on accounts

AND

Import Personal Contacts
Person accounts owned by other users 50,000 at a time

Create on accounts

AND

Edit on accounts and contacts

AND

Modify All Data
Leads 50,000 at a time Import Leads
Campaign members 50,000 at a time

Depends on what’s being imported:

  • Campaign member statuses
  • Existing contacts
  • Existing leads
  • Existing person accounts
  • New contacts
  • New leads
Custom object 50,000 at a time

Import Custom Objects

AND

Create on the custom object

AND

Edit on the custom object
Solutions 50,000 at a time Import Solutions

Assets

Cases

Campaigns

Contracts

Documents

Opportunities

Products

 You can’t import these records via the Data Import Wizard.
  • Your import file can be up to 100 MB, but each record in your file can’t exceed 400 KB, which is about 4,000 characters. To determine how many fields you can import, use this formula: 4,000 / (average number of characters in an API field name * 2). For example, if your average field character length is 40, you can import approximately 50 fields.
  • You can import up to 90 fields per record.
  • Each imported note and each imported description can’t exceed 32 KB. Text longer than 32 KB is truncated.
  • Other Bulk API limits apply. If you have missing records or truncated fields due to limits, see Bulk API Limits in the Bulk API 2.0 and Bulk API Developer Guide.

Assets, cases, campaigns, contracts, documents, opportunities, and products can’t be imported via import wizards.

 
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