Import students and staff

You almost certainly already have your people in a spreadsheet. Brim imports from that directly, so nobody re-types a register.

What you need

• A spreadsheet (Excel or CSV) with one row per person.
• For students: name, class, and a parent/guardian phone number where you have one.
• For staff: name, role, and a phone number.

How it works

1. Share your spreadsheet with the Brim team during onboarding, or upload it yourself.
2. Brim matches your columns to its fields and shows you a preview.
3. You confirm, and the records are created. Duplicates are flagged, not blindly created.

Parents are linked, not duplicated

A parent with three children at your school is one person in Brim, linked to all three. When you import, Brim recognises a repeated phone number and links rather than creating three separate parents. That is what lets a parent see all their children in one place.

Phone numbers are stored encrypted. A parent's number is never shown to other parents, and only staff with the right role can see contact details.