Importing Contacts and New Custom Fields
Step 0: Open Audience Management
On the main navigation menu, select Audience & Contacts and then Contacts.
To get started, click on Import Contacts on the right-hand side of your screen.
Step 1: Click Import from Excel
Paste all of the relevant data from excel
Step 2: Click the Pink Button «Import Contacts»
First, choose a name your import.
Then check the desired boxes;
Automatically create a segment
Activate PUSHTech emails validation (read more about this here)
Skip the first row
Step 3 – Add any new Custom Field
If you need to add any new custom fields (for example Business Traveler, Mallorquin Resident) Click on the blue click here highlighted in yellow below.
This will open the Custom Field Creator.
Step 3.1: Select a Name
Step 3.2: Using the format word_word_word (no spaces, no Capitals) Write your Key Name
Step 3.3: Optional You can add a description.
Step 3.4: Select type of field from the drop-down.
Step 4 – Select Each Category and Skip Unnecessary Columns
Just above each excel column, there is a drop-down bar. It is auto-set to Skip Column, if you have random data that will not be useful to select Skip Column and it will not import data from the column below.
Select the relevant Field/Category for each bit of data.
**Remember if you (like the below example have pasted your category names click the «Skip first column» checkbox.
Step 5 – Confirm Import
Click the pink button on the upper right-hand side to confirm & finalize the import.
Note: When you import large to massive quantities of contacts it will prompt you to get an email when it is finished.