One contractor, by hand. For more than a few at a time, import them instead.
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Open Contractors
Contractors in the sidebar, then Add Contractor at the top right.
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Enter the name
Name is the only required field. Use the legal business name if you have it — it's what state license records are indexed by, so it makes license search work first time.
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Add contact details
Email is where document requests and renewal reminders go. You can add it later, but every request will ask you to type it until you do.
Phone and the remaining fields are for your own reference. Nothing is sent to them.
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Save
Save. You land on the contractor's page, ready to file documents against.
Naming that saves you trouble later
Two contractors called "Rodriguez" and "Rodriguez Electric" are hard to tell apart in a dropdown eighteen months from now. Enter the name the way it appears on their certificate of insurance — that's also the name that has to match when a certificate is parsed, and it's what an auditor will be looking for.
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What happens next
Ask for their paperwork with a document request, or file a certificate you already hold by uploading it yourself.