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Enriching contacts — email IDs and phone numbers

Find verified email addresses and phone numbers for contacts who only have a LinkedIn URL — using a waterfall across 19 data providers.

Enrichment is the process of finding a contact’s email address or phone number when you only have their name and LinkedIn profile. GetReplies does this using a waterfall approach — it queries multiple data providers in sequence until it finds a verified result.

How waterfall enrichment works

GetReplies queries up to 19 providers in a defined sequence. If the first provider doesn’t have a verified email for that contact, it moves to the next. It stops as soon as it finds a verified result and charges one credit. If no verified result is found across all providers, no credit is charged.

You are only charged when a verified email is found

If GetReplies queries all 19 providers and cannot find a verified email for a contact, no credit is deducted.

A verified email is one that has been confirmed as active within the last 90 days — meaning an email was sent to it and did not bounce.

Verified vs. guessed email addresses

Not all email addresses found on the internet are reliable. GetReplies distinguishes between:

  • Verified email. The address has been confirmed deliverable within the last 90 days. This is what GetReplies returns and charges 1 credit for.

  • Guessed / pattern email. The tool guesses the format based on the person’s name and company domain. GetReplies does not return unverified guesses — these produce bounces and damage your domain score.

  • Personal email (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.). GetReplies provides corporate email addresses over personal ones for B2B outreach.

How to enrich a contact list

  1. Go to Contacts → Lists and open your list.

  2. Select the contacts you want to enrich (or select all).

  3. Click Enrich → choose Find email ID or Find phone number.

  4. GetReplies runs the waterfall across providers. Results appear in the contact record once found.

  5. Contacts where no email was found show a dash (—). No credit was deducted for these.

⚙ Contacts → Enrich — credit cost reference

1 verified email address

1 credit

1 phone number

3 credits

No result found

0 credits charged

1,000 credits

$35 — purchased separately from subscription

Credit expiry

Never — unused credits carry over indefinitely

Providers

Waterfall across up to 19 providers

Verification standard

Confirmed deliverable within last 90 days

Phone number enrichment

Phone numbers cost 3 credits each. They are useful when you have a calling step in your campaign sequence and want your team to have direct-dial numbers available as a task.

Phone availability is lower than email availability across most geographies — expect a match rate of 30–50% for most B2B audiences.

When to enrich — and when not to

  • Enrich when: you’ve built a list from LinkedIn search or post import and need email IDs to run an email or multi-channel campaign.

  • Don’t enrich when: your CSV already has verified email addresses. You don’t need to spend credits re-enriching data you already have.

  • Filter your list to your ICP first, then enrich only the relevant contacts. Enriching poorly-targeted contacts wastes credits and adds bounces to your campaign.

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