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Finding the Right Person at the Right Company

Search, filter, sort, and the subtle art of remembering which Jan works at which company.

You have 300 contacts. Twenty of them are named Jan. Eight work at companies in Amsterdam. Three of those are in logistics. You need the one who handles collections for the leasing company. Good luck finding that in a spreadsheet. In ReVend OS, you type "Jan," filter by role "logistics," and there he is. Third row. Click.

Search

The search bar searches across first name, last name, email, company name, and job title. Type "operations" and you'll find every operations manager, operations director, and that one person whose email is operations@company.nl. Type a phone number and you'll find the contact it belongs to. Type a company name and you'll find everyone who works there.

Filters

Filter by company, by role, by tags, or by any combination. Filters are cumulative — add a company filter and a role filter and you'll see only contacts at that company with that role. Remove one filter and the other stays. The count updates in real time so you always know how many results you're looking at.

Sorting

Sort by last name (default, because alphabetical is predictable), first name, company, or "recently added" for when you just imported 50 contacts and want to verify they arrived correctly. Sort ascending or descending. If two contacts have the same last name, the system sorts by first name as a tiebreaker, because chaos has no place in a contact list.

Grid vs. list view

Grid view shows cards — more visual, better for scanning when you're looking for a specific person and you'll know them when you see their company name. List view shows rows — more compact, better for large lists where you want to compare information across many contacts at once.

Both views remember your choice. Switch to list view, navigate to a contact detail, come back — you're still in list view. Switch to grid, scroll down to the 40th card, click a contact, come back — you're at the same scroll position. Because losing your place in a list is the kind of micro-frustration that makes people go back to the spreadsheet.

We're not going to let the spreadsheet win.