Before you leave
- Enable the SMS channel to use sending messages to contacts. Write to your contact person in magnews to enable it.
- Do you already have a sender in use for SMS? Each country has its own regulations for sending automated SMS, see for example the requirements in Italy defined by AGCOM.
Upload the file
- Go to “Profile studio”, and from the “Dashboard” click on the top right “Import”. If you have more than one, select the database to which you wish to add the contacts.
- Drag the contacts file or select it via Choose File.
- Select the “Import new contacts and update existing” operation.
- Map each column in the file to an appropriate field in magnews, then click Forward.
On the Preferences page define how magnews should treat the phone numbers on the file.
Strict validation
only correctly formatted cell phone numbers will be imported :
- with a valid international area code (consisting of the '+' symbol followed by the numerical code, e.g., +39)
- without spaces
- without digits other than numbers or +/- characters.
- For example, +390544123456789 is correctly formatted, while +39 0544 123456789 is not due to spaces
Automatic recovery
magnews will automatically add the international prefix to imported phone numbers, removing spaces and other unnecessary characters.
Remember that this operation adds the default international prefix to all imported numbers, including those that already have one. You can select automatic reclamation only if, at the time of import, all the numbers in the file have a prefix or if vice versa all have none, or you will get an inconsistent result.
Verify the data
- Check the validation result and take a look at the summary of the selected options.
- Click on “Start Import” and you will be shown the new contacts and those that have been updated, you will also be able to see if there are any contacts that have been rejected. The rejected contacts could not be imported for example because of a misspelled email (oliwier@@example.com) or repeated in the file. On this page in addition to the outcome of the import you will be able to review the