How is this not available from launch? When you have a new feature like this surely it is only usable with a bulk action at setup. I am so so ready for this but it's only possible with bulk importing.

100% need this.

We can’t even use Custom Objects until we can import them with the associated contacts. So much promise for a game-changing feature just to have them dashed if this isn’t even in the roadmap. 😭

This is an absolute must. Can't really put this to use until we have this

I also need this. As an example...I create a custom object called "books" that will contain a bunch of books and their details. I then create associations. Once labeled 'author' and the other labeled "reviewer". I would then have contacts for all the authors and all the reviewers. Since I may have 1000+ books in the books object it would be nice to be able to upload these from a CSV like in Contacts and map columns to custom fields. To make this even better it would be create to be able to update the associations as well from the CSV and it would create the links between authors and reviewers and the books.

This would also be very necessary for real estate as whitelabel clients will be unlikely to make the switch from another CRM platform if they have to manually create hundreds to thousands of objects. Additionally would be important to be able to have an object already associated with a contact upon import.

For example, a contact (John Smith) would be a "property owner" who owns three "properties" (objects), so if someone is importing via a csv file, they could already have John Smith associated with his three properties (objects).

Then if you can do this at scale with thousands of owners and thousands of properties, you have a game-changing feature.