Getting started

What is Miaalo?

What the product does, who it is for and how it works, in plain words.

Miaalo in one sentence

Miaalo is an online contact book for your business. It keeps everyone who has enquired about your business in one place, sorted into lists, so you always know who to follow up with and who has already become a customer.

What problems does it solve?

  • Enquiries are scattered. Phone numbers sit in notebooks, WhatsApp chats, Excel files and website emails. Miaalo puts them all in one list.
  • You don't know where people came from. Each contact is filed under a source, such as "Website form" or "Diwali expo", so you can see which channel brings the most people.
  • Follow-ups get forgotten. Every contact has a status, Interested or Converted, so you can see at a glance who still needs a call.
  • Typing is slow. You can import a whole spreadsheet at once, or connect your website so enquiries arrive by themselves.

How it works

  1. Contacts come in. You type them in, upload an Excel file, or your website form sends them automatically.
  2. They are sorted into sources. A source is simply a named list. One contact can be in several sources.
  3. You follow up. Open a contact, call or message them, and change their status to Converted when they become a customer.
  4. The dashboard shows how you're doing. New contacts per day, your biggest sources and how many people converted.
The Miaalo dashboard with contact totals, a 30-day chart, top sources and recent contacts
The dashboard: your home screen after you log in.

Finding your way around

Everything is in the menu on the left side of the screen. On a phone, tap the button at the top to open it.

Menu itemWhat you do there
DashboardSee a summary of your contacts.
ContactsSee, search and edit everyone in your account.
Add ContactSave one new person.
SourcesCreate lists, and import or export the contacts in each list.
ProfileYour name, phone number, website and business description.
API KeysKeys that let your website send contacts to Miaalo. You only see this if your account has API access.
SubscriptionsOther businesses whose public lists you have joined. Most people never need this.
Help & DocumentationThis help center.

What Miaalo doesn't do right now. The bulk SMS, WhatsApp and email screens are switched off in this version. Miaalo is used to collect and organise contacts. Accounts with SMS turned on can still send a single SMS while adding a contact. See Add a contact by hand.

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