Associate multiple contacts to deals on import via object id

It would be helpful if we could associate multiple contacts to deals via object ID on an import. If there was a way to put multiple contact object ID’s in a column of the spreadsheet, formatted with a comma or semicolon in between the numbers, this would save a bunch of time.

As this is inbuilt functionality through the UI I was very surprised to find this wasn’t a core part of the import routines. Manually updating thousands of records is going to be a painful and laborious process.