Mail Merge vs ContactsFlow™ Shared Contacts for Calendar

✔️ The best mail merge add-on for Gmail ™, Google Docs™, Sheets™, Forms™ and Slides™. ✔️ No sign-up required. ✔️ Free and fast customer service. ✔️ Free from advertising or watermarks. ✔️ Mail Merge into emails, envelopes, letters and certificates. ✔️ Mail Merge images including profile pictures, QR codes and barcodes. 👇 Read more about our features, help, tutorials and pricing. 🎯 HOW IS THIS ADDON USEFUL? No need to download anything. Everything is online, powered by Google Workspace ™. Whether it’s for personal, education or other professional use, this is a simple and powerful tool for sending mass personalized emails with Gmail ™. Easily insert place holders (or Merge Fields) in your document, slide or email body. Common use cases include: ➤ Mail Merge certificates from Google Slides ™ templates. Email classroom their certificate of achievement. Ideal for public/private schools and online educational institutions. ➤ Automatically send a personalized email when a Google Forms ™ is submitted online. Test the Google Forms ™ email notification using the Google Forms ™ link. ➤ Inviting people to an event such as a webinar, wedding, job-dating, fair, conference or meetup (using apps such as Zoom, CISCO Webex, Microsoft Teams, etc.) ➤ Generate certificates or application forms. Each document/form can have its own image (such a profile picture). ➤ Get answers from a large list of guests and invitees. ➤ Get potential new clients with a custom email campaign. ➤ Drive and generate new leads with efficient cold emailing. ➤ Send commercial offers suited to each recipient. ➤ Apply to many job offers at once. ➤ Manage PR campaigns by contacting journalists or influencers. ➤ Send payment reminders to a list of clients with their invoice attached. ➤ Share information on each student with their parents the easiest way. ➤ Greetings for birthday, happy new year, new year's eve wishes, holidays, thanksgiving, halloween, secret santa, christmas, xmas holiday to your friends, family or colleagues. ➤ Renew your audience commitment to your blog with an email that presents the latest blog posts ➤ A newsletter solution to send periodic newsletters on your latest products, features, promotion, discount, coupon, news, reports, metrics or polls. ➤ Address personalized thank you emails to HR recruiters, crowdfunding supports, product hunt upvoters, business angels, a friend or family. ➤ Run efficient cold emailing or follow-up campaign to drive and generate new leads for sales people. ➤ Generate and print envelopes. Make each envelope unique to each recipient. ➤ Send Personalized Emails with Mail Merge in Gmail ™ to your classroom, school, office, team, NGO or State and Federal Government departments. ➤ With Email Notifications for Google Forms ™, you can automatically send email messages every time a respondent submits your Google Forms ™. You can notify the form respondent and/or your team members. These form confirmation emails will add peace of mind to your workflow. ➤ Use a standard HTML Editor to help you write the email body or insert HTML code from another marketing editor tool. This will help you create professional and elegant email templates. ➤ Track which emails have been read and which links have been clicked. 🆘 NEED HELP AND SUPPORT? Don’t worry. We don’t use robots with artificial intelligence. We have real intelligent people answering your questions with an average response time of less than 3 hours. However, we usually reply much faster than that. Whether you are using the free or premium version, we do not charge for customer support. Help comes in the form of email communication, or as an alternative, we also provide a remote desktop session. We are therefore geared up to handle high profile clients from NGOs, health institutions and Government departments worldwide. We offer a 30 day MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. We pride ourselves on having the best customer care. You can also help yourself by searching our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions): https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/help If you don’t find the answer feel free to contact us here: https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/contact-us WHAT DOES ‘MAIL MERGE’ MEAN? Mail Merge is a powerful tool for writing a personalized E-mail to many people at the same time. It uses the data from GSheet and then uses that to replace placeholders/merge fields throughout the message with the relevant information for each individual that is being messaged. 📼 INTRODUCTORY VIDEO If you feel that the add-on is not intuitive and easy enough you can quickly watch this step-by-step tutorial on YouTube ™ https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/home#h.4pdgrekmgbwm 𝍁 PREPARE A GOOGLE SHEETS ™ FILE FOR MAIL MERGE ➤ Make sure the first row in your sheet contains column names. Such as ‘Fullname’, ‘Address’, ‘Email’, etc. ➤ These column names will be used as *|Merge Fields|* when you design your email or letter template. ➤ To be able to merge you need to have at least one row of data under your column names. ➤ The Google Sheets ™ file can be saved in your personal Google Drive ™, Shared Drive or any Google folder you have access to. 🗎 MAIL MERGE FROM THE GOOGLE DOCS ™ VERSION OF THE ADD-ON ➤ Write your GDoc template. This will serve as a base for your email body or letters. ➤ Start the add-on by clicking Add-ons > Mail Merge > Start. ➤ Click “Open Spreadsheet” to choose a Google Sheets ™ file. ➤ Select the sheet tab you want to merge data from. ➤ Insert merge fields into the Google Docs ™ template. Merge fields are the column name found in the first row of the data in your Google Sheets ™. ➤ You can change the font color, size, etc. of the merge fields as well as regular text. You can further customize it by adding images. ➤ When you are ready press the blue Merge button to start the mail merge process. ➤ Before sending emails it's best to merge to a ‘Test Email’. This will give you a good idea of how the email will look to your recipients. ➤ Instead of sending emails straight away, you can opt to merge emails to your Drafts Folder. This will give you the opportunity to check and edit the emails before you send them. ➤ If you are merging to Letters you can opt to merge everything in a single document or create a document for every row you want to merge. 𝍁 MAIL MERGE FROM THE GOOGLE SHEETS ™ VERSION OF THE EXTENSION ➤ Open the Spreadsheet file and sheet you want to merge from. ➤ Start the add-on from Extensions > Mail Merge > Start. ➤ Select the ‘Email To’ . This will be the column in your sheet which contains a list of email recipients. Typically, this is a column name called ‘Email’. All values in this column must have valid email addresses (except the column name of course). You can enter multiple email addresses in the same cell. They can be separated by a comma, semicolon, etc. Such as [email protected], [email protected]. ➤ Enter the Email Subject, such as ‘Exam Results for *|Fullname|*’. ➤ Click ‘New’ for ‘Body Template’ to start writing the content of your email body. You can add multiple templates and they can be shared across different sheets inside your file. ➤ Once done, click ‘Test Email’. This will merge the 1st row of data in your sheet. That is row 2 since row 1 only contains column headers. ➤ Once you are happy with how your email looks you can go ahead with a full merge. You can either send emails straight away or merge to Gmail™’s Draft folder. The latter will give you an opportunity to change and verify the emails before you send them. ➤ A column called ‘Filter Rows to Merge’ is automatically created for you by the add-on. This will be automatically populated with the date and time the row was successfully merged. If you want to re-send/merge the row again, just delete the content of that cell under the ‘Filter Rows to Merge’ column. If there is text in all the data rows for the ‘Filter Rows to Merge’ column you will get an error when you attempt to merge telling you that there are no rows to merge. ⮹ MAIL MERGE FROM THE GOOGLE SLIDES ™ VERSION OF THE ADD-ON ➤ Design your slide/certificate from a free template. ➤ Start the add-on by clicking Add-ons > Mail Merge > Start. ➤ Click “Open Spreadsheet” to choose a Google Sheets ™file. ➤ Select the sheet tab you want to merge data from. ➤ Insert merge fields into the slide template. Merge fields are the column name found in the first row of the data in your Google Sheets ™. ➤ Click Options if you want to filter which rows to merge or choose a Google Drive ™ folder where to save your merged files. You can also opt to save the files as PDF. ➤ When you are ready press the blue Merge button to start the mail merge process. ≟ MAIL MERGE FROM THE GOOGLE FORMS ™ VERSION OF THE ADD-ON ➤ Create a form with all the questions you need to ask. ➤ Start the add-on by clicking Add-ons > Mail Merge > Start. ➤ Enter the Email Subject, such as ‘Exam Results for *|Fullname|*’. ➤ Click ‘New’ for ‘Body Template’ to start writing the content of your email body. ➤ When you are ready press the blue Save button. The respondent will start to receive an email on any newly submitted form. Click ‘Send Test’ to test it out. 🕵️ MAIL MERGE HIGHLIGHTS FOR BOTH GOOGLE DOCS ™ AND GOOGLE SHEETS ™ ★ Personalize your email message body and your subject line to send unique emails to recipients in bulk/mass. ★ Add CC, Bcc, Reply-To. Values can be static or merged from a column in your sheet. ★ Send emails from any account (alias or not) you have access from. These accounts are configured from Gmail ™->Settings->Accounts->Send mail As ★ Opt to merge only selected/filtered rows of data. ★ Before sending emails it's best to merge to a ‘Test Email’. This will give you a good idea of how the email will look to your recipients. ★ Instead of sending emails straight away, you can opt to merge emails to your Drafts Folder. This will give you the opportunity to check and edit the emails before you send them. ★ A date/time value can be assigned to a column to track which rows have been merged. ★ Mail Merge Images. Automatically replace *|Merge Fields|* with images. Ideal for QR Code, Barcode, profile photo, etc. https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/help/merge-images-qr-codes-barcodes ★ Merge HyperLink text and url ★ Schedule a campaign for a certain date and time. ★ No limit to how many emails you can send through the add-on. Gmail ™, rules apply. ★ No limit to how many merge fields you can enter. 🕵️ FEATURES AVAILABLE ONLY FROM THE GOOGLE DOCS ™ VERSION OF MAIL MERGE ★ Send emails over SMTP. Ideal to send emails from non-gmail ™ accounts such as Yahoo!, Microsoft, SendGrid and many more. By using a 3rd party email providers such as SendGrid you eliminate email limits and reduce spamming detection. ★ Send the document template as a PDF attachment to your emails. ★ No limit to how many documents you can generate. 🕵️ FEATURES AVAILABLE ONLY FROM THE GOOGLE SHEETS ™ VERSION OF MAIL MERGE ★ Automatically send emails from Google Sheets ™ linked with Google Forms ™. Emails are sent automatically when a new form response is submitted. Email can include a personalized (mail merged) PDF File. ★ Save multiple email body templates for a spreadsheet file. This means you can use a different email body content for the same sheet or share the same email template with multiple sheets in your file. 💰 PRICING / COST https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/pricing We are happy to give a discount to NGOs and educational institutions. Just contact us. 🤙 Contact Us https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/contact-us 🆕 RELEASE NOTES https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/home/releasenotes 🔒 PRIVACY POLICY https://mail-merge.quicklution.com/home/privacypolicy 𝑾 TRANSITION TO G SUITE/MARKETPLACE FROM MS WORD Was it hard to switch from Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint to Google Docs ™, Sheets ™ and Slides ™ because it didn’t have a mail merge add-on? Quicklution is here to help you make the transition from Microsoft to GSuite as smooth as possible. 🛈 OTHER INFORMATION This extension can be used from your Chromebook, Mac, Window or any other platform with a browser. It makes your move to Chromebooks easy!

Easily see who you’re collaborating with and share contact details with your entire team directly from Google Calendar™. You can also add notes to contacts and keep everyone synchronized. The Calendar for ContactsFlow™ app brings smart contact sharing and contact management directly into your Google Calendar™ experience. Whether you’re collaborating internally with teammates or working with external partners, this app helps you instantly add, edit, organize, and share contact information from Google Calendar™ with your entire team. What can you do with ContactsFlow™? ✅ Share and synchronize contacts effortlessly - Share any Google Contacts™ label (contact list) with individuals or Google Groups - Instantly sync shared contacts with Gmail™, Google Contacts™, mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Google phones), Calendar™, Drive™, and more - Keep your company contact lists centralized, organized, and always up to date ✅ Control permissions and visibility - Set permission levels such as View Only, Can Edit, Can Share, and Can Delete - Hide sensitive contact fields from unauthorized users - Ensure contact sharing aligns with your internal privacy and security policies ✅ Centralize and manage your Google Workspace™ directory - Synchronize your Google Workspace™ Directory and LDAP with users’ devices - Allow employees to update their own directory profiles - Build a unified and always up-to-date company address book ✅ Access shared contacts everywhere - Access shared contacts from Gmail™, Google Contacts™, Android, iPhone, Outlook, WhatsApp, Zoom, CRMs, and more - No installation required on user devices — synchronization happens automatically in real time - Enable Gmail™ autocomplete and contact visibility across Google apps ✅ Comments, notes, and notifications - Add internal notes and comments to contacts directly from Gmail™ - Mention teammates with @mentions to notify them instantly - Use notifications and history tracking to review or revert contact changes ✅ Custom fields to personalize contact cards - Create custom fields such as Customer ID, Plan Type, Onboarding Date, Birthday, or any field your team requires - Use free-text fields or dropdown menus with predefined values - Let users or AI automatically populate custom fields during contact creation or updates - Organize contacts based on your workflow or industry with fields like - Customer Type, Sales Region, Project Name, Renewal Due, or Priority Level - Improve searchability and categorization across your organization ✅ Search, filter, and organize contacts - Use advanced search filters to find contacts by company, location, job title, tags, and more - Filter contacts using custom fields, teams, vendors, customers, or departments - Organize your contacts with flexible labels and grouping options ✅ History logs and audit tracking - Track every contact change, including who edited what and when - Revert contact edits directly from notifications or history logs Improve transparency and audit readiness ✅ Unlimited backup and restore - Restore deleted contacts anytime with no time limitations - Track all updates with Shared Contacts admin logs - Investigate, revert, or restore contact data in one click using advanced search tools ✅ Integrate with the tools you already use - Works natively with Gmail™ and Google Contacts™ - Synchronize contacts from Active Directory, CRMs, ERPs, and mobile devices - Connect with CRM platforms and business applications - Integrate with helpdesks, IP phone systems, and 3,000+ apps through Zapier or our Public API Why Choose ContactsFlow™? ContactsFlow™ is one of the leading solutions for sharing and managing Google Contacts™ across teams and organizations. Whether you use Gmail™ or Google Workspace™ (formerly G Suite), you can easily create and share contact labels (contact groups) with internal users, external collaborators, and even free Gmail™ accounts. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, ContactsFlow™ is a powerful alternative to solutions like Shared Contacts Manager, ContactBook, CoContacts, Shared Groups, Voyzu, and others. Contacts can be automatically captured from emails, calls, forms, and files. With flexible permission controls, you can assign access levels such as View Only, Can Edit, Can Share, or Can Delete. You never need to leave Gmail™ or Google Calendar™ to manage your shared contacts. Contacts synchronize instantly across devices and applications, eliminating duplicate work and manual updates. Every team member gets access to the right contact information with full context, notes, and collaboration history. The platform also includes backup and restore capabilities to help keep your contact database secure, synchronized, and always recoverable. Designed for businesses of all sizes, ContactsFlow™ makes collaborative contact management simple, scalable, and efficient. Install it in seconds and start collaborating immediately. Try it free and transform the way your team shares and manages contacts. 🔗 Visit contactsflow.ai for support, pricing, integrations, and FAQs. 🔍 FAQ 1. What does the Calendar Add-on for ContactsFlow™ do? When you open an event in Google Calendar™, the add-on detects participants and provides actions such as adding them to a contact list, editing contact details, or adding comments and notes directly from Calendar™. 2. Can I view full contact details from Calendar™? Yes. The app displays detailed contact cards including names, email addresses, phone numbers, companies, job titles, and internal notes shared by teammates. 3. Does it work with Google Groups? Yes. You can expand Google Groups and manage shared contact access for groups and individual collaborators. 4. Can I add new contacts from Calendar™? Absolutely. You can instantly create new contacts or shared contacts directly from Calendar™ and assign them to labels such as Clients, Vendors, or Team Members. 5. Can I assign permissions to shared contact lists? Yes. You can assign permissions including View Only, Can Edit, Can Share, and Can Delete. 6. Who can I share contact labels with? You can share contact labels with Google Workspace™ users, Gmail™ users, and external collaborators, depending on your sharing settings. 7. Can I restrict access to sensitive contact fields? Yes. Field-level permissions allow you to hide sensitive information such as private phone numbers or internal notes from unauthorized users. 8. Which apps does ContactsFlow™ synchronize with? Contacts synchronize with Gmail™, Google Contacts™, Calendar™, Drive™, Meet™, iPhone, Android, Outlook, CRMs, and thousands of applications through Zapier and APIs. 9. Can it synchronize with CRM systems? Yes. ContactsFlow™ supports CRM integrations through APIs, Zapier, and native integrations. 10. Do contacts automatically synchronize to mobile devices? Yes. Contact updates synchronize instantly with iPhones, Android devices, and Google phones with minimal setup. 11. Is ContactsFlow™ GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliant? Yes. ContactsFlow™ complies with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 requirements and includes permission controls, audit logs, and security features. 12. Can I track who changed contact information? Yes. Every change is logged with timestamps and user tracking, and previous versions can be restored when needed. 13. What happens if a contact is accidentally deleted? Deleted contacts can be restored anytime with unlimited backup and restore functionality. 14. How do I install the Calendar for ContactsFlow™ app? Click “Install” from the Google Workspace Marketplace listing. Once installed, the app becomes available directly inside Google Calendar™ and provides access to the full ContactsFlow™ platform.