Records Import Numbers and Types
The number of records you can import depends on your permissions and the type of data you’re importing. You can import as many records as allowed, as long as you don’t exceed the overall data storage limits for your org.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Essentials, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| Which records can be imported? | |||
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| Type of record | Import record limit | Users permissions needed | Learn more |
| Business accounts and contacts owned by you | 50,000 at a time via the Data Import Wizard | Import Personal Contacts |
What Is Imported for Business Accounts and Contacts? |
| Business accounts and contacts owned by other users | 50,000 at a time | Modify All Data |
What Is Imported for Business Accounts and Contacts? |
| Person accounts owned by you | 50,000 at a time | Create on accounts AND Edit on accounts AND Import Personal Contacts |
What Is Imported for Person Accounts? |
| Person accounts owned by other users | 50,000 at a time | Create on accounts AND Edit on accounts and contacts AND Modify All Data |
What Is Imported for Person Accounts? |
| Leads | 50,000 at a time | Import Leads | What Is Imported for Leads? |
| Campaign members | 50,000 at a time | Depends on what’s being imported:
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| Custom objects | 50,000 at a time | Import Custom Objects AND Create on the custom object AND Edit on the custom object |
What Is Imported for Custom Objects? |
| Solutions | 50,000 at a time | Import Solutions | What Is Imported for Solutions? |
Assets Cases Campaigns Contracts Documents Opportunities Products |
You can’t import these records via the Data Import Wizard. | ||
For information on field accessibility and how different field type values are imported, see Notes on Importing Data. Relationship group members can’t be imported.

