Built-in contact append adds missing details to your contacts: phone numbers, emails, and household details such as age, income range, homeowner status, length of residence, and property value. You pay as you go at $0.10 per matched record. Add funds to the wallet, run the list, and the new details are saved to the contact records.
What it appends
Choose the type of data you need: phone, email, phone and email, or full enrichment (phone, email, and household details). Run the list and pay only for matches, at $0.10 for each contact that receives new details.
/01, PHONE
A contact's name and address are matched to a phone number, which is added to the contact record. Beacon does not check appended numbers against the national Do Not Call (DNC) registry, so check your own TCPA (federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act) obligations before you call or text.
/02, EMAIL
Email addresses are added to the contact record for longer follow-up, donor receipts, and proposals. Match rates are typically 50 to 70%.
/03, DEMOGRAPHICS
Age, income range, homeowner status, length of residence, property value, and dwelling type are saved on the contact's record and appear on the contact page in the web dashboard.
How billing works
Enrichment is not included in your tier. It is charged by use, shown clearly, and billed only when a match is found. Add funds to the wallet through Stripe, run the list, and matches are added to the contact records.
How a list gets enriched
The steps are the same whether you are enriching 500 names or 50,000.
/01
Add credit through Stripe. Most programs start with $50 to $200. The wallet balance appears on the enrichment screen and carries over from month to month.
/02
Choose phone, email, phone and email, or full enrichment, then select the contacts to enrich, or enrich your list right after a CSV import.
/03
The job runs in the background, and new details are added directly to each record. You are charged only for matches, never for records with no match.
/04
Phone numbers, emails, and household details are saved on each matched contact record before canvassers open their walk lists.
FAQ
Q / 01
It costs $0.10 per matched record on every plan, with no monthly minimums and no subscription. Each contact that receives new details is charged once, whichever type of append you choose.
Q / 02
You are charged only for matches, so if a phone, email, or demographic record cannot be found for a contact, there is no charge. Phone match rates are typically 60 to 80%, and email 50 to 70%.
Q / 03
Not by itself. Beacon does not check appended numbers against the national Do Not Call registry or mark them as cell or landline. You can mark any contact as do not contact in Beacon, and you should check your own TCPA and DNC obligations before you call or text.
Q / 04
Not automatically, but you can run it as part of the import. When a CSV import finishes, the import window offers an enrichment step, and the job runs in the background, so reachable contacts have phone numbers and household details before canvassers open the walk list (their assigned addresses).
Start enriching
Open a Beacon account, upload your CSV, add funds to the enrichment wallet, and run phone and demographic enrichment in the background. Most programs see final match rates in under an hour.