All of the contacts that you engage with in Trello are saved under your SendBoard account. The contacts view contains a list of all your existing contacts - from here you can search, view, update, create, import, export and archive contacts.

Manage and view your email contacts in Trello.

Any correspondent you engage with via Email for Trello will be automatically created as a contact, with a dynamic avatar based on their name (if no Gravatar is set).

When you receive an email from a new contact, their first and last name is automatically set to whatever mailbox name that they have chosen in their own email app. When you reach out to a new contact by entering their email address, the contact will be created without a name.

But it is possible to add and update contacts in your SendBoard contact database. Click on the contact to easily manage their name, email address, contact number and link them to an organisation. Learn more about grouping contacts and managing organisations here.

Individual contact view in Trello shows activity associated with that specific contact.

Note: contacts that have been archived will not appear in the list, but will be visible via the search function.

View the contact assigned to a card

Every card that has email activity will have an assigned contact. You can see the contact under the "SendBoard" area of the card. Clicking on the contact will bring up a screen where you can choose a different contact, update contact details or create a new contact.

Click on the contact assigned to the Trello card to view the contact

Choose a different contact

If you'd like to switch out the contact and assign someone else to the card, you can use the search box to find another contact. Search using their name or email address, select the contact, and then choose "Assign to card".

Assign a new contact to a card

You will need to have a contact linked to the card in order to send an email from the card - for example, in the case where a card has been created manually in Trello and not from an email, there will be no contact linked to the card and you will have to assign a contact. Simply select "Assign contact" from the SendBoard button on the card and choose or add a new contact.

Quick tip: Use the @assign feature to quickly assign a contact. If you comment @assign Bob Jones <bob@example.com> on the card, the contact is automatically assigned with the correct name and email address.

Update contact details

Any contact that you select can easily be updated. Simply change their first name, last name or mobile number and the new details will automatically be saved.

It's not possible to change the email address of an existing contact, because that email address may be linked to email conversations. If you need to remove an out-of-date email address, you can archive the old address and create a new contact with the new email address.

Update your SendBoard contact details from the Trello card.

Archive a contact

Click the "Archive" button to prevent a contact from showing up in auto-complete results when adding contacts to the To/Cc/Bcc field.

They'll still show up if you search for them on the manage contacts screen. If you archive a contact by mistake, you can easily unarchive them.

Create a new contact

Creating a new contact is quick and easy, and can be done in two ways.

When viewing a contact from the card, click the "New Contact" button. Add your contacts details and then click "Add contact and assign to card".

When viewing a contact from a Trello card, click the "New Contact" button to create a new contact in Trello

Create a new contact in Trello from the Trello card

From the contacts dashboard, click "New Contact" on the panel on the right. Add your contacts details and then click "Save".

From the SendBoard contacts dashboard, click "New Contact" on the panel on the right

Create a new contact in Trello from the SendBoard contacts dashboard

Use Butler Automation and Custom Fields to assign a contact

If your workflow adds your customer’s email address to a Trello Custom Field, you can use automation to your advantage. Simply create a rule to assign the contact to the card when the Custom Field ‘Email' is set. When the Custom Field is set, your rule will post the comment @assign {%Email%} which will automatically set the contact. The contact name will be taken from the email address. If you have a Custom Field with the name too, you can specify the name like this @assign {% Client_name %} <{% Email %}>

Here is an example of what the rule will look like:

Trello automation rule to automatically assign an email contact to a Trello card

Successfully assigning a contact to a Trello card with a Trello automation rule

Import multiple contacts to Email for Trello

Learn how to import multiple contacts to Email for Trello: Import Contacts in Trello