Contacts in Boardssey is your private list of the people you stay in touch with about your games, publishers, retailers, artists, manufacturers, podcasters, fellow designers. It lives alongside your pitches and gives you a single record of every relationship.
Before going further, an important clarification, because the word "contacts" can mean different things in different apps:
Boardssey doesn't send email or messages on your behalf. Contacts is a place to keep notes, addresses, and history. It is not an outbound email tool, a marketing CRM, or a campaign sender. You'll still reach out to people in your own email or messaging tool; Boardssey records what happened.
With that out of the way, this page covers what Contacts is good for and how it fits alongside the rest of Boardssey.
What this page helps you do
Understand what Contacts does (and doesn't do).
See how Contacts connects with Pitches and Games.
Decide whether you should be using it.
What you can do with Contacts
Keep one record per person: with email, role, company, website, and free- form notes.
Categorize people: Publisher, Manufacturer, Artist, Editor, Retailer, Convention organizer, Cultural consultant, and more. Filter the list later by category.
Link contacts to pitches so when you open a contact, you see every game you've pitched them and every interaction. See Linking a pitch to a contact.
Share contacts with your team: anyone in your team workspace with the right role can see and edit contacts.
Promote a contact to a teammate: turn a freelancer-contact into a Boardssey Collaborator with one click when you start working together closely.
What Contacts is not
Worth being explicit, since these are common reasons people reach for a "contacts" feature:
Not an outbound email tool. Boardssey doesn't have a "compose" button for contacts. Use your existing email client.
Not a marketing CRM. No campaign automation, no email open tracking, no lead scoring.
Not a public list. Your contacts are private to your team workspace, not visible to other Boardssey users.
Not a substitute for a phonebook. It's tuned for industry contacts (the people you collaborate with on board games), not personal contacts in general.
If you need outbound emailing or a full CRM, keep using whatever you already do for that. Boardssey Contacts complements those tools by being the single source of truth for what we know about this person and our relationship.
How Contacts fits alongside the rest
Contacts sits between two other parts of Boardssey:
Pitches (per game): each pitch can be linked to a contact. Open the pitch, jump to the contact, see every other pitch you've made to them.
Per-game permissions (per game): a contact can be promoted to a Collaborator with access to one specific game (e.g. an artist working on one project).
Together that gives you a navigable graph: from any game, find who you've pitched it to; from any contact, see every game they've touched in any way.
Who should be using Contacts?
Most useful for:
Designers actively pitching publishers (3+ pitches across 2+ games).
Anyone working with multiple freelancers across multiple games.
Studios with several active relationships with manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
Less useful for:
Solo designers with one game and no external relationships yet, too early.
Anyone who already has a polished CRM workflow elsewhere and doesn't want to duplicate.
There's no harm in starting empty and adding contacts as relationships form. The feature scales gracefully from 0 to 500 contacts.
Where to go from here
Manage your contacts covers the mechanics, adding, editing, categorizing, removing.
Linking a pitch to a contact covers the integration with Pitch tracker.
Pitch tracker covers the per-game pitch list.
Tips & common questions
Will Boardssey scrape my email or sync with Gmail? No. Contacts is fully manual. We don't have email integration. If you want a contact in Boardssey, you create it in Boardssey.
Can I import contacts from a CSV? CSV import for Contacts is on the roadmap but not available today. For now, add them by hand.
Are contacts shared across all my team workspaces? No, Contacts is per team workspace. If you're in two teams, each has its own contact list.
Can a contact see that I'm tracking them? No. Contacts is private to your team workspace. The people in your contact list have no idea Boardssey exists from this feature alone.