---
title: "Add a contact to a list"
slug: "add-a-contact-to-a-list"
abstract: "How to add a single new contact to a list."
---
# Add a contact to a list

You can add individual existing or new contacts to an existing list.

To add a contact to a list:

1. Open a list and in the **Contacts** section, click the drop-down arrow ![9FD11352A3F94176BF30C47BFAD620C2.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/93/sitecore-experience-platform/images/9FD11352A3F94176BF30C47BFAD620C2.png), and then click **Create and add new contact.**

    ![The action menu in a contact list.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/93/sitecore-experience-platform/images/5A1D0407C62445C5B5FFCE8056BF5972.png)

2. In the **Create and add new contact** dialog box, enter the relevant contact information for the new contact. To add an existing contact to the list, enter the [contact identifier and, if relevant, the identifier source](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/93/sitecore-experience-platform/en/contacts.html) of the existing contact.
    - If you do not want to use the email address as the contact identifier, select the **Manually map contact identifiers** check box and for the Identifier that appears, select the field in the import file that you want to use as the unique identifier for the contacts.
    - If you do not want to use List Manager as the identifier source for the contacts, select the **Manually map contact identifier sources** check box and for the Identifier source that appears, select the field in the import file that you want to use as the identifier source for the contacts.

    > [!note]
    > The information that you enter in the dialog box about an existing contact overwrites the contact details that already exist. This also applies if you leave a field empty.

    ![The Create and add new contact dialog box.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/93/sitecore-experience-platform/images/8848442DF5FB44BABDB647E07235FB65.png)

3. Click **Save**. Until the list has been re-indexed, the list is locked.