{"id":797,"date":"2026-10-12T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/help\/lists-skip-trace\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:09:38","slug":"lists-skip-trace","status":"publish","type":"rd_doc","link":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/help\/lists\/lists-skip-trace\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip trace contacts from a list"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What it is<\/h2>\n<p>Skip tracing looks up phone numbers for contacts from their property address. You can run it on a selection of contacts right from the Lists page.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to find it<\/h2>\n<p>Lists &gt; tick up to 50 contacts &gt; Skip trace.<\/p>\n<h2>Steps<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open <strong>Lists<\/strong> and tick the contacts you want traced, up to 50 at a time.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Skip trace<\/strong> in the action bar.<br \/>\n<figure class=\"rd-shot rd-shot-howto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/realdialer-help-howto-lists-skip-trace-1.webp?v=1791835778\" alt=\"Tick up to 50 contacts, then Skip trace\" width=\"1440\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Tick up to 50 contacts, then Skip trace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read the price and the list of anyone who will be skipped.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Skip trace<\/strong> with the count to run it.<br \/>\n<figure class=\"rd-shot rd-shot-howto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/realdialer-help-howto-lists-skip-trace-2.webp?v=1791835778\" alt=\"Read the price, then press Skip trace with the count\" width=\"1440\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Read the price, then press Skip trace with the count<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Done<\/strong>. New numbers are added to each contact.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Skip tracing is paid for with RealDialer skip trace credits or your own connected skip trace key. Set either up in Settings &gt; Connections.<\/li>\n<li>If you are short on credits, the dialog says how many you need and links to <strong>Buy credits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Contacts are skipped when they asked not to be called, have no property address with a city or ZIP, or were traced in the last 30 days.<\/li>\n<li>The button stays greyed out when you select more than 50 contacts or use Select all matching.<\/li>\n<li>A contact that runs out of working numbers lands on the Bad Numbers list. A trace that finds a working number takes it back off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skip tracing looks up phone numbers for contacts from their property address. You can run it on a selection of contacts right from the Lists page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2128,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_rd_doc_route":"\/lists","_rd_doc_source_id":"lists-skip-trace","_rd_doc_checked":"2026-10-12","_rd_doc_meta_description":"Skip tracing looks up phone numbers for contacts from their property address. You can run it on a selection of contacts right from the Lists page.","footnotes":""},"rd_doc_category":[18],"class_list":["post-797","rd_doc","type-rd_doc","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rd_doc_category-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rd_doc"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/797\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rd_doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc_category?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}