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Import your contacts’ database

One of the first tasks you need to complete after your onboarding is to import your contacts database.

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Written by Fatma Abid
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Watch our overview to help you import your contacts into Acteol SE:

Prepare your contacts list

To prepare your import list, follow the steps below:

  1. Export your existing contact database as a series of files.

    • Each file should be one location, containing contacts that have this as their favourite site.

    • In the import process, you will map the contacts to one site.

  2. If you have multiple sites, add a new column in each file, titled Site ID.

  3. Add the required site ID to the column. The site ID can be obtained from the Acteol SE Setup page on the Locations tab.

  4. Save your files as CSVs.

⚠️Warning: the file name shouldn't contain any special characters, as the import process is case sensitive. Also, the first column in the file to import shouldn't be empty as that may cause errors.


Import your contacts

To import your contacts, follow the steps below:

  1. In Acteol, from the left-hand menu, click Import.

  2. Select the import file, add your privacy policy file then click Next.

  3. Set the mapping fields from the import CSV file to the Acteol Contact fields.

  4. Click Submit, then click Finish.


Locate your uploaded customers list

  1. Open the Single Customer View module.

  2. Click Contact Segmentation.

  3. By the node Import, click the arrow icon.

  4. You will find the data list under the name you've chosen for the Source ID.

    • Duplicated contacts: represent the already existing customers but were added again from the new import.

    • New contacts: represent the newly added customers within the new import.

⚠️Important: It is possible to contact the newly added customers via this import only within the next 24 hours after which the automated refreshes are done.

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