How to install contactID and open the app

Create your contactID account

Go to contactid.brandid.app and click Get started free, then Sign up for free on the sign-in screen. You can sign up in two ways:

• Email. Enter your email address. contactID is passwordless: it sends a 6-digit code to that address, and entering the code verifies your email and signs you in.
• Continue with Google. The fastest way. Google has already confirmed your address, so there is no code step.

An emailed code expires after 10 minutes. You have 5 attempts per code, and you can ask for a new one after 2 minutes. Check your spam folder if it does not arrive within a minute.

Answer the short onboarding questions

contactID asks a few questions so it can fill forms for you:

• About you: your full name, country, a phone number (recommended, because many forms ask for one) and how you found contactID.
• Your business: company name, website, industry and role. All optional; Skip for now moves on.
• Targets: choose I have my own list or Help me find websites.
• Agent: your first sender, prefilled from your answers. Press Create agent to save it.

Open the Launch App page

At the last onboarding step the Open app & start sending screen checks whether the extension is installed. You can also reach the same place any time: in the dashboard sidebar, under Outreach, click Launch App.

The big banner has an Open the app button. If the extension is not installed yet, nothing will happen when you press it. In that case click the Scroll down to install link beside it and use the Add to Chrome button there. That opens the Chrome Web Store listing for contactID.

Add contactID to Chrome

On the Chrome Web Store listing, click the blue Add to Chrome button. Chrome shows a dialog listing the permissions contactID needs. Click Add extension to confirm. Installing takes about 30 seconds.

contactID uses these permissions to open the websites in your list in background tabs and fill their contact forms. It only works on pages in your queue.

Pin contactID to your toolbar

Chrome hides new extensions behind a puzzle-piece icon at the top right of the window. To keep contactID one click away:

1. Click the puzzle piece icon.
2. Find contactID in the list.
3. Click the pin icon next to it.

The contactID icon now stays in your toolbar. The Launch App page shows the same three clicks in its Where the app lives panel.

Open the app and sign in

Click the contactID icon in your toolbar. The app opens as a side panel on the right of your browser. If you are already signed in to the dashboard in this same browser, the extension signs in to the same account by itself. Otherwise the header shows Get Started. Click it and choose how to sign in:

• Google: one click with your Google account.
• Email code: click Sign in without a password, enter your email, press Send code, then type the 6-digit code.

Use the same email you used to create your account. Your session lasts 30 days and extends every time you use contactID.

Learn the four tabs

The side panel has four tabs:

• Setup: a three-step checklist that ticks itself as you go, plus short videos.
• Agent: your senders, their details and their message.
• Targets: where you paste websites or drop a file, and check them before sending.
• Send: where you start, pause, resume or stop a run and follow every website.

The fullscreen button in the header opens the same app in a wide tab. The panel stays open until you close it, and a run continues while you use other tabs.