Adding Subscribers > Importing Subscribers

Email Autoresponder has an import facility. It's used to import contact data from CSV (comma separated variable) files that are located on your local computer. Follow-up sequences will be automatically created for each subscriber in the file, assuming you assign them to one of your autoresponders during the import process.

The only obligatory field is email address. All other fields are optional. The fields that can be imported are email address, title (eg Mrs, Mr), first name, middle name, last name, full name and format preference (plain or HTML).

The CSV file must have one contact record per line. The fields may be enclosed in double-quotes ("") although this is not necessary. The fields do not need to be in a particular order because you tell Email Autoresponder which is which as part of the import process.

Here is an example of a valid file structure:

field_1,field_2,field_3,field_4, ..., field_n

For example:

johndoe@hotmail.com,John,Doe,John Doe,H

janedoe@yahoo.com,Jane,Doe,Jane Dow,P

To import subscribers:

1.	Select Subscribers » Import From File from the menu bar.

2.	Click the Browse button and select the CSV file to be imported.

3.	Click the Proceed button.

This takes you to the Subscribers » Import screen.

4.	Step through the import screens

Importing will happen on-screen and you will see a progress bar which will update in real time. You will be sent an email both when the process starts and finishes, assuming you have entered your email address in the Profile screen.