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title: Imported contacts aren't on Today or Leads
description: Why people you imported show on Contacts but not on Leads or Today, and how to make them leads.
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  - /import-and-export/import-into-contacts-or-leads
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---

Where you started the import decides where people land. An import started from **Contacts** adds plain contacts, which don't appear on **Leads** or **Today**. An import started from **Leads** adds active leads.

## Find out which applies

- You imported from **Contacts**. That's working as intended: past clients and your sphere stay off your daily list. To work some of them as leads, open each one and choose **Convert to active lead**. Importing the same file again from **Leads** won't change them, because rows that match people already in Relivo merge into them and leave them as contacts.
- The people were already in Relivo. A row that matches someone you have merges into them, and they stay a contact or a lead as they were. See [How CSV duplicates are merged](/import-and-export/how-csv-duplicates-are-merged).
- They have a deal. Someone with a deal is a client, so they show on **Contacts** and **Pipeline** rather than **Leads**.

## Leads that are on Leads but not on Today

**Today** isn't a list of every lead. It holds up to 15 items, ranked by urgency, so after a large import only the most urgent leads show at first.

- A new lead shows as "New Lead" while they are in the **New Lead** stage, nobody has reached out yet, and they were added less than 48 hours ago.
- After that, they come back as a cooling contact once they've gone quiet for longer than their stage allows.

See [How Today works](/today/how-today-works). Every imported lead stays on **Leads** in the meantime.