A critical step to getting started with SmartSender is setting up your Contact List. Whether you’re starting from scratch, or bring an existing audience into SmartSender, your list is where you’ll store and manage all your contact data.
In this article, you’ll learn how to create and organize your list.
Before you start
Here are some things to know before you begin this process.
- SmartSender was intended to be used with a single list, so you shouldn’t need to create more than one.
- If you absolutely need to maintain separate lists, you can repeat this process to create them. Lists are independent of one another, so contact and list data will be siloed on a per-list basis. Contacts that appear on multiple lists will also count multiple times in your overall subscriber count, which could increase your Monthly Plan.
- If you’re using SmartSender’s bulk email service, make sure you’re familiar with our anti-spam practices and list requirements before you begin this process.
Create Contact List
Step-by-step instructions:
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- Select Email List domain from the drop down menu (in the upper right corner) if there are several domains in the account.
- Navigate to Contact List Management page (Menu -> Contacts -> Lists).
- Click “Add List” button
- Type in Contact List default data to be used in messages
- Set “Advanced Settings” of the Contact List in case of need.
- Click “Save” button
Email List default data
| List details | Description |
|---|---|
| Default data | |
| Title | Name of your list. |
| Default from email |
Your clients will receive emails from this address.
|
| Default from name |
Your clients will receive emails from this Sender.
|
| Reply-To Email | OPTIONAL: Address where replies of your customers will go. From email will be used by default. |
| Reply-To Name | OPTIONAL: To Name of replies of your customers. From name will be used by default. |
| SMS From Name | Default name of From Name for your SMS. Will be used in SMS from Automations, etc. |
| Text that will be in footer of each email for this list. | |
| Company |
Offical name of your company including incorporation type. Also needed for the footer information.
|
| Address line1 |
Physical address of your company for direct mailing
|
| Address line2 |
Use this if filed above is not enough
|
| Zip code |
Where your office or company is registered
|
| Country |
Where your office or company is registered
|
| State |
Where your office or company is registered
|
| Advanced settings | |
| Mapped variables |
Variables from Email List to be included in Email Log export
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After you create your Email List, you’ll be able to import subscribers or start collecting new contacts.