Answers.Body: <p>Unfortunately, the built-in CiviCRM import can't do contacts and memberships together.  You need to do two uploads.  Worse still, if they're paid memberships, you have to do three uploads - though folks have written extensions to address this (see other questions <a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/19526/simple-way-to-import-membership-and-contributions-together">here</a> and <a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/1/whats-the-best-way-to-import-memberships-and-their-associated-contributions">here</a>.  No one has made a general "works for everyone" extension though.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: As for your second issue - Stack Exchange works best if there's a single question per post.  Could you please post that as a separate question, and include a sample line of (anonymized) data, including your headers?  I wonder if your CSV file is malformed.
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Body: <p>Can I import membership contact and membership details all in one upload without my contact already existing?  Or does my contact need to already be a contact for me to upload membership specifics - and it takes two uploads not one.</p>
  
  <p>Plus, I have a field called Membership Organisation which when importing my data gives a reason of ' invalid; membership type (which is a separate field).  </p>
  
Tags: <civimember><contacts><custom-fields><duplicate-contacts><data-import>
Title: Membership imports
ThreadText: # Membership imports
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-31)
  
  Can I import membership contact and membership details all in one upload without my contact already existing? Or does my contact need to already be a contact for me to upload membership specifics - and it takes two uploads not one.
  
  Plus, I have a field called Membership Organisation which when importing my data gives a reason of ' invalid; membership type (which is a separate field).
  
  **Tags:** civimember, contacts, custom-fields, duplicate-contacts, data-import
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-31. Score: 1
  
  Unfortunately, the built-in CiviCRM import can't do contacts and memberships together. You need to do two uploads. Worse still, if they're paid memberships, you have to do three uploads - though folks have written extensions to address this (see other questions [here](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/19526/simple-way-to-import-membership-and-contributions-together) and [here](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/1/whats-the-best-way-to-import-memberships-and-their-associated-contributions). No one has made a general "works for everyone" extension though.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: As for your second issue - Stack Exchange works best if there's a single question per post.  Could you please post that as a separate question, and include a sample line of (anonymized) data, including your headers?  I wonder if your CSV file is malformed.  
  
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