Get ID of a contact on basis of email or organisation

Hi all,

Can anybody help me out, in searching contacts and get “ID” on basis of
contact email address or organization etc,
As I have exported all the data from free agent but didn’t get the auto"ID"
of free agent, which generates at the time of account creation,

Actually I have to merge the data of one of our client free agent account
in our database,

Please suggest the way to save the manual work.

Hi Vipul,

You can’t search for contacts by name in the API but if you are moving all
the account information from one account to another you could retrieve the
list of contacts from the API. This would include a unique identifier (the
URL) for each contact and you could then match that locally with your list
of exported contacts. This would allow you to add identifiers to the list
of contacts you already have. If you do the same for invoices, estimates
etc you will then have enough information to know which invoices etc relate
to which contacts.

At that point you will be able to use the API to create new contacts in the
new account with the same data as in the old account. This will give you a
new ID for that contact and when recreating the related invoices, estimates
etc you can use this new contact ID for anything that was related to the
same contact in the old account.

Kind regards,
HarryOn Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:03:37 AM UTC+1, vipul Kumar wrote:

Hi all,

Can anybody help me out, in searching contacts and get “ID” on basis of
contact email address or organization etc,
As I have exported all the data from free agent but didn’t get the
auto"ID" of free agent, which generates at the time of account creation,

Actually I have to merge the data of one of our client free agent account
in our database,

Please suggest the way to save the manual work.