Automatically update a Numbers spreadsheet from other application/documents

Hi,
Before I start I am a relative novice in using Numbers, and if it applies in this instance, Applescript and Automator. I run a small local weekly free newspaper (created using InDesign if that is relevant) which is paid for by adverts; I want to create a spreadsheet to track my advertisers and the financials in every respect - renewals, sizes and duration of ads, amount paid and owing, and a whole load of other stuff which includes their contact details. Now I know that I can import the relevant info from Address Book as a snapshot at that moment, but what I want to know is whether it is possible to have the spreadsheet automatically update whenever I change a contact or add a new one to my Address Book? As far as I have been able to ascertain so far, it is not, so if that is the case, is there some sort of workaround, possibly using Automator and another app or even the web, where this can be done? Or is it possible the other way round, where I keep the contact details updated in Numbers and this gets transferred to Address Book? Or any other bright ideas? I don't really want to have to type the same information, or even copy/paste it for every new customer, as well as inputting it into my phone (which I don't think is able to sync with my Mac - it is a Samsung).
Please keep any scripting/technical answers as simple as possible, as I don't have much experience with it. Thanks in anticipation...

I have been doing a lot more reading on the forum and I now think there might be a partial solution to what I would like to do, possibly even a complete one, but I am not sure if what I have in mind is possible.
Using Automator/Applescript, could it be done that on a weekly basis Address Book gets opened automatically, the relevant group of contacts (which is already set up) is selected and copied/exported, and then Numbers and the relevant sheet opened automatically and the updated contact list pasted/imported? In addition is it possible to set up a script that can check if a group in AB has been changed, and if it has for this to be the trigger for the earlier script/workflow I have described rather than a date (every week in this case)? Again this could work the other way around, with the Numbers sheet being the one changed by me, and then a script to update AB. Any help would be massively appreciated.
I have now managed to set up iSync to work with my phone so that can be updated once AB has been, but I am still working on getting the information from the phone to AB to be correct for Numbers! This is because of how my phone contact details is stored which is different seemingly from AB and I am not sure if I can sort that out. There is a First Name and Last Name field but no Company name in my phone, and I need to have all of those for it to work.

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