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Import leads

Purpose of this article

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.

Before you start
Make sure you have:
  • 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

Instruction

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.

Expected outcome of the instruction

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.

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