Saleshandy Connect: The Extension, the Credits, the Reveal

Saleshandy Connect is the Saleshandy extension for Chrome: a browser extension that reveals a verified email address, and sometimes a direct phone number, for the LinkedIn profile currently on screen. It is not the integration layer its name suggests, and it is not the same product as Saleshandy Lead Finder, which is the searchable database inside the app. Those two get confused constantly, and the confusion costs money because they draw from the same credit balance in different quantities.

The distinction is simple once stated. Connect works from a profile you have already found. Lead Finder works from a filter set describing profiles you have not found yet.

Choosing between profile-based lookup tools and full sales engagement platforms is a separate decision, one that Apollo.io versus Saleshandy comparison addresses directly.

Everything below is taken from saleshandy.com, its machine-readable pricing document, its help centre and news posts, and the extension listings. When this page was refreshed, the Chrome Web Store showed both Saleshandy Connect listings as not available to a signed-out visitor, so no store rating, user count or version is quoted here. We run Email Bison for sending and HeyReach for LinkedIn, so this is a documentation read rather than an operator's account of the tool.

The App Store listing for the Saleshandy app, sold by Ikigai Infotech LLP, describes itself as designed for iPad and not verified for macOS, and its Mac compatibility line requires macOS 12.0 or later on Apple silicon, so the Mac install is an iPad app on an M-series chip rather than a desktop client.

What the Saleshandy extension does

The Saleshandy extension is Saleshandy Connect 2.0, a Chrome extension that finds a prospect's verified work email and phone number from their LinkedIn profile, reveals several profiles at once, tags them into lists and adds them straight to a Saleshandy sequence. Each verified email costs 1 Lead Finder credit, and an email plus a phone number costs 7.

Saleshandy's help centre describes the flow. Install the Saleshandy Connect extension in Chrome, log into LinkedIn, open the prospect's profile and click the extension icon shown next to the URL bar; the popup fills in first name, last name and email address. Show more fields displays the custom fields you've added in Saleshandy, which is what personalises the emails later. The publisher behind the extension family is Ikigai Infotech LLP, the name on Saleshandy's Edge add-on and its App Store app.

Saleshandy's news centre introduced Connect 2.0 as an extension that finds verified emails and phone numbers from LinkedIn profiles. Its older sibling, Saleshandy Connect: Email Tracker and Lookup, is the previous generation, and the store listings for both were not viewable signed-out when this page was refreshed. Check the version before troubleshooting anything.

The extension does four things according to Saleshandy's own product pages. It reveals verified business emails and direct dials from a profile. It supports revealing several contacts at once rather than one at a time. It lets you build and tag lists as you go. And it pushes revealed prospects straight into a Saleshandy sequence without a CSV round trip.

That last capability is the actual argument for an extension over an export. The gap between finding a person and having them in a campaign is where most manual prospecting time disappears, and closing it inside the browser removes a file handling step that nobody enjoys and everybody gets wrong occasionally.

The bulk reveal deserves one note of discipline, because it is the feature most likely to spend credits faster than intended. Revealing several profiles at once is convenient precisely because it removes the pause where a person would have decided whether each one is worth a credit. Whatever selection judgement was going to happen has to happen before the button rather than after it, and a list assembled by bulk-revealing everything on screen is a list selected by the search interface rather than by anybody's targeting.

The credit arithmetic, which is the part worth memorising

Saleshandy publishes its pricing in an unusually direct form: a machine-readable document at saleshandy.com/pricing.md, explicitly labelled as a structured summary for AI agents, search assistants and procurement tools. The prices in it match the rendered pricing page, which makes cross-checking cheap.

The credit rules are the operationally important lines:

• One credit reveals a verified email address.
• A verified phone number costs 6 credits, so an email plus a direct phone together costs 7.
• Credits refresh every month, and on annual billing the full year is deposited upfront. Saleshandy's help centre says unused credits don't carry over.
• The reveal runs a waterfall across several data providers, and you pay only for verified results. Saleshandy's own pages disagree on how many: pricing.md and the help centre say 9, while the pricing page says 8.

The seven-to-one ratio is the number that should shape behaviour. A phone number costs seven times what an email costs, which means a prospecting session that reveals phones by default burns a monthly allowance in a seventh of the expected time. On Pro's 4,000 credits a month, email-only reveals give you 4,000 contacts and email-plus-phone gives you 571. The practical conclusion is to make phone reveals a deliberate act rather than a default setting.

Where the credits come from, and what they cost

Connect draws on Lead Finder credits, and those credits now come inside every Saleshandy plan. Its help centre says Saleshandy used to sell Email Outreach and Lead Finder as two separate products, and that the Platform Plan combines both into a single subscription; pricing.md puts it more bluntly: Lead Finder is not sold separately. Starter is $41 a month, or $34 billed annually, with 1,500 credits a month. Pro is $99 or $76 with 4,000, and Scale $189 or $149 with 8,000. Top-up packs run from 500 credits for $12.50 to 100,000 for $1,600, at the same price on monthly or annual billing.

Plan	Monthly / annual	Credits a month	CRM sync
Starter 1 user	$41 / $34	1,500	No
Pro Up to 10 users	$99 / $76	4,000	Yes
Scale Unlimited users	$189 / $149	8,000	Yes

CRM sync means the Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Zoho integrations, listed from Pro.

That structure has a consequence worth spelling out for anyone budgeting. The pricing page offers up to 50 free credits and a 7-day trial, so the cost of trying the extension is nothing. The cost of using it in production is now the plan itself: the data and the sending sit on one bill, and seats come with the plan, 1 on Starter, 10 on Pro and unlimited on Scale, never billed per user. What moves with volume is the credit allowance, so a team that reveals phones by default runs out on the credits line long before it runs out of sending.

Two versions, and why the older one still turns up

Saleshandy's extension has been through three generations, and the older ones have not vanished from the places people find extensions.

The first was the legacy Chrome extension Saleshandy launched in 2018, built for email tracking in Gmail. Saleshandy's blog announced its sunset: after 1st January 2023 it would not be available in the Chrome store, because of Google's update to the extension platform. The same post introduced its replacement, Saleshandy Connect. That second generation is listed as Saleshandy Connect: Email Tracker and Lookup, and its Edge add-on, published by Ikigai Infotech LLP, describes finding email addresses from LinkedIn and other popular CRMs plus instant notifications when prospects open emails and click links. The third generation is Connect 2.0, which leads with the finder.

A fourth install sits beside the line. Saleshandy's help centre documents a Bulk Lead Finder extension that is not a store install at all: you extract a saleshandy-bulk-lead-finder.zip file, turn on Developer mode in chrome://extensions, and load the folder with Load unpacked. Anyone searching for a Saleshandy Lead Finder extension is usually looking for this one or for Connect 2.0, which saves its reveals to Lead Finder.

That distinction causes a specific kind of confusion in evaluation. Somebody reads a review of the tracking-focused version, installs the finder-focused version, and finds the feature they read about behaving differently or sitting somewhere else. Third-party download mirrors and extension-statistics sites index both, often without dating them, so a search result three deep can easily be describing software that is being retired.

Two practical consequences. Check which listing you installed before troubleshooting a missing feature, because a reinstall of the wrong version fixes nothing. And treat any review of Saleshandy Connect older than the 2.0 announcement in May 2025 as describing a different product, particularly on the question of what it does with tracking data.

The wider point generalises past this vendor. A browser extension's version history is genuinely hard to audit from outside, and the store listing rarely says which generation is which. When a vendor's own changelog names a sunset, that changelog is a better source than any review.

What an extension-based reveal can and cannot tell you

The honest limitation of any browser-based finder is that it answers one question about one person at a time, and the question it answers is narrower than it looks.

A revealed email is a candidate address with a verification status attached. It is not evidence that the person still holds the role on the profile, that the mailbox is monitored, or that the domain in the address is the one their team actually uses. Records go stale continuously, which is why data decay is a discipline rather than a footnote, and why a reveal made three months ago deserves a second verification before it enters a campaign.

The second limitation is about how the tool shapes the work rather than the data. Prospecting through an extension means prospecting one profile at a time, and the natural result is a list assembled from whoever appeared in whatever LinkedIn search you happened to run. That is a legitimate way to build a small, high-care list of named accounts. It is a bad way to build a segment, because the selection criterion ends up being the search interface rather than the ideal customer profile. When the requirement is a segment rather than a shortlist, the database side of the product is the right tool and Saleshandy Lead Finder covers it. Saleshandy's pricing page describes that database as 852M+ verified contacts and 42M+ company profiles, searchable by title, seniority, industry, company size and hiring signals, and both routes spend the same credits.

The house position on what happens next

Getting a verified address is the easy half. What the address is used for is the half that decides whether the programme works, and it is worth stating our own practice plainly rather than leaving it implied.

At RevenueFlow every campaign carries exactly one message. We do not send bumps and we do not send thread replies, so a second contact is a new campaign with a genuinely different angle rather than another step stacked under the first. Saleshandy's own product is built around multi-step sequences, and Connect's push-to-sequence feature exists to feed them. That is a description of the tool rather than a recommendation, and anyone running a single-message programme should read the sequence integration as a convenient list-loading path rather than as a reason to add steps.

Two neighbours are worth reading alongside this. Cold email software places Saleshandy in the wider category, and best Saleshandy alternatives is the comparison if the evaluation is already heading elsewhere. On the verification side, email verification tools covers what a verification status actually asserts before a revealed address is trusted at volume.

Another angle worth weighing is category fit itself, and Groove versus Saleshandy compared lays out when a Salesforce-native multi-channel platform suits the workflow better than a cold email specialist.

If the useful next step is a campaign rather than another tool evaluation, see what a first campaign looks like.

Pricing and features are taken from the vendors' own pages. Verify current terms with the vendor before relying on them.