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You have a list of people to ring and a set of things to find out about each one. By the end of this your agent rings them, asks, and writes the answers into the row that person already occupies — plus a sentence or two about how the call went, including for the ones who hang up on you. This is the setup a recruitment, admissions or lead-qualification team ends up with. It takes about twenty minutes.
You need a spreadsheet connected and a phone number. If you have neither yet, do those first — this guide assumes both.

Start from the sheet, not the agent

The order matters. Your columns decide what the agent can record, so a column you add later is one it has been asked nothing about.
1

Put your leads in, one row each

Import your list into Grist with whatever you already know — name, mobile, district. These rows are the ones the calls will fill in, so the numbers must be the ones you are going to dial.
2

Add a column for every answer you want

One column per question. Keep the names plain — the agent reads them, so AGE and QUALIFICATION work and col_7 does not.Give each a short description in Grist (“the candidate’s current district”). That description is the clearest instruction you can give about what belongs in a column, and it costs you nothing.
For a question with fixed answers, make it a Choice column and list them. The agent is then held to your own words, so you get Interested every time instead of interested, yes interested and keen.
3

Add a Summary column

Call it Summary. It is the one that gets filled when nothing else can — the person who says only “not now, I’m busy” has answered none of your questions and still told you something worth keeping.
4

Pin the table

Actions → Spreadsheet → Grist, paste your key, choose the document and the table.
Do this again whenever you add a column. The column list is cached when you pin, so a column added afterwards is invisible until you pick the table again. This is the single most common way this setup goes quietly wrong.

Tell it which row belongs to whom

Without this, every call adds a new line and your imported rows stay empty.
1

Set the match column

On the same card, under Update an existing row, choose MOBILE_NO and compare it as a Phone number.Digits are compared, last ten, so the sheet saying 9775778000 and your campaign dialling +919775778000 are the same person. They rarely match as text, which is why comparing as text is the wrong choice here.
2

Fill in what the call already knows

Under Fill from campaign variables:
The left side is your column, the right side is the variable your campaign supplies. Your agent is told not to read someone’s own number back to them, so without this the number never arrives — it is known, but nobody says it out loud.

Choose when it writes

On the spreadsheet card, set When to save to After the call. For a questionnaire this is almost always right. The whole conversation is read at once, so an answer given early lands in the right column, somebody who corrects themselves is recorded once, and the caller never waits while a row is written. Leave it on During the call only if you are watching the sheet live and want to see rows appear as the words are spoken.

Turn on summaries

Voice → Summarise each call. Two or three sentences per call, on the call in Usage → Calls beside the transcript, and in the Summary column you made.
The switch is what starts it — the column on its own does nothing. This is deliberate: a column should never quietly begin costing you anything.

Ring the list

Voice Campaigns → New voice campaign. Upload the same list as a CSV and map its columns:
  • Phone number → the column with the mobile in it
  • {{lead_name}}, {{mobile_no}} → the matching columns
The names on the right of your Fill from campaign variables box must be the variables this campaign actually supplies. Map MOBILE_NO=mobile_no here and send phone there and the column stays empty — nothing errors, it simply never fills.

Check the first call before you run the rest

Ring one person. Yourself, ideally. Then:
1

Open Usage → Calls

The call should read Answered, with a Summary tab beside the transcript.
2

Open your sheet

Their answers should be in their existing row, not a new one at the bottom.A new row at the bottom means the match did not happen. Check the number in the sheet is the number you dialled, and that Update an existing row is set to that column.
3

Then start the campaign properly

A list of five hundred writing into the wrong rows is five hundred rows to clean up by hand.

What you end up with

Your original rows, filled in — one line per person rather than one per call, whatever number of times you ring them. A summary against each call for the ones worth reading about. And for the ones who said no, a record saying so, which is what stops you ringing them again next month.