Follow these guidelines when formatting your contact import file:
- the file must be a .CSV or .TXT format
- each value must be separated by a semicolon
;, comma,or tab - the email column must be titled EMAIL
- do not include special characters or spaces in your column headers
- simplify your import by using your contact attribute names as the column headers in your file
Example
EMAIL,FIRSTNAME,LASTNAME subscriber1@example.com,firstname1,lastname1 subscriber2@example.com,firstname2,lastname2 subscriber3@example.com,firstname3,lastname3
Additional formatting help
You may download a sample import file below and follow the example to prepare your own import file:
- Click to download sample import file (semicolon delimited)
- Click to download sample import file (comma delimited)
- Click to download sample import file (tab delimited)
Learn more
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