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Teaches how to import collected leads from an Excel table into DreamApply. Importing leads will allow for the creation of many registered Applicants with a single action.
the Marketing addon enabled (please feel free to contact [email protected] if you would like more information on enabling this addon)
the correct administrator permission (“import-applicants”)
gathered the applicant’s necessary information in an Excel sheet. The information should be organized in individual columns containing the following:
Applicant name
Applicant last name
Applicant Email address
(optional) Applicant citizenship (must be in the format of upper case 2-letter country codes – see more about ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 codes)
(optional) Telephone number
(optional) Notes
Import leads:
Log in as an administrator with the permission “import-applicants” (included with the Roles “Admissions administrator”, and “Marketing administrator” in addition to “Superuser”).
From the Main menu, go to either:
Marketing > Import leads
Import > Import leads
Click on the “Upload file” button.
Choose the Excel sheet containing Leads to upload it in the system.
Select the correct column headers for each of the columns.
(optional) Assign the “Ignore column” as the column header for irrelevant columns as needed.
(optional) You can skip certain rows by un-ticking the box beside it.
Click on the “Save and continue” button.
Choose at least one Behaviour as desired:
Decide whether to have the system create a new account if one with the same email address does not already exist. This will send a welcome email.
Decide whether to have the system add a tracker code if an account with the provided email address already exists in the system.
Choose a tracker which will be assigned to the imported Leads.
(optional) Edit the welcome letter as desired.
Click on the “Finalize import” button.
After importing Leads, the system will either register a new account or assign the specified Tracker to the existing accounts, or both depending on the selected Behaviour(s). If a new account has been created, a welcome email with access credentials will be sent to the provided email address. All Leads created with this action will have the attached Tracker.