Contact status
Each contact has one Contact status. It describes the mailbox as a whole and overrides every list the contact is on.
Subscription to an individual list is tracked separately. See Lists.
Transactional sends follow different rules: an Unsubscribed contact still receives transactional mail such as receipts. See Send policies.
Add a contact manually
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Open the dialog
Click Add Contact in the toolbar.
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Fill in the details
Email is required. First Name and Last Name are optional. Under Add to list, choose the list the contact joins, or Don’t add to a list. It starts on the list you are viewing in the sidebar, or else on your workspace’s oldest list. Expand More details for company, job title, phone, address, country, language, timezone and birthday. Any custom fields you have defined appear below.
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Save
The contact is created with the status Active and subscribed to the list you chose. Adding it to a list can start automations with a Contact Added to List trigger. If the address already exists, its details are updated; if it had unsubscribed from the chosen list, it stays unsubscribed. To add it to more lists later, open the contact and use Subscribe to list, or select it in the table and use Bulk update → Add to list.
Find contacts
- Search: the search box matches email and name.
- Lists sidebar: click a list on the left to show only its members. The table then gains a Status in column named after the list, and the Add Existing button appears so you can add existing contacts to that list.
- Filters: the Filters: row has Email, External ID, First Name, Last Name, Phone, Language, Country, Status and List. Click one to turn it into an editable chip. List status (Subscribed, Pending, Unsubscribed) appears once a list filter is set. Click Clear to remove every filter.
- Segments: the Segments: row shows one coloured chip per segment with its contact count. Click a chip to show only its members. Click it again to remove the filter.
Choose columns
Click the columns button next to the export button to show or hide Name, Lists, Segments, Contact status, Country, Language, Timezone, Phone, Source, Added and Custom Fields. Your choice is remembered in your browser. In the Lists column, each list has a coloured dot for the contact’s status on that list.Bulk update
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Select contacts
Tick rows, or use the header checkbox to select every contact on the current page. The selection is kept when you move between pages and cleared when you change a filter.
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Choose an action
Click Bulk update and pick an Action:
- Add to list / Remove from list
- Set list subscription status: Subscribed, Pending or Unsubscribed on one list
- Set a profile field: country (ISO code), language, timezone, source, company or job title. Leave the value blank to clear the field.
- Set a custom field (shown only if you have custom fields)
- Set contact status and Delete contacts (Owners and Admins only)
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Apply
Click Apply. A message reports how many contacts matched and how many changed.
Save a filtered view as a list
When a filter is active, click Save as List, enter a New List Name and save. The new list is filled with the matching contacts at that moment. It does not update itself later. Use a segment if you need a group that stays current. The list gets exactly the contacts the table shows: the search text, every filter chip (such as country, language, status or list status), the list selected in the sidebar and the segment chip all apply, the same as for Export to CSV. The dialog lists the filters it will use. A list can hold up to 50,000 contacts from one save.Export to CSV
Click CSV in the toolbar to download the contacts that match the current filters. The file includes profile fields, each list asList name:STATUS, segments, and one column per custom field. You need export permission to see the button.
- Up to 250,000 rows per export
- Up to 5 exports per minute per user
The contact page
Click a row to open the contact.- Header: the email address (with a copy button), status, Lifetime value, Purchases, Last goal and Website visits where available (see Events and goals).
- Unsubscribe from all lists: marks the contact Unsubscribed and records an opt-out on every list. Campaigns and journeys stop sending to them straight away. Setting the status back to Active under Edit Contact does not re-subscribe them to any list; you have to add each list back yourself.
- Awaiting confirmation: if the contact is Pending, or is Active but hasn’t yet confirmed a double opt-in list, a banner explains why, with a Resend Confirmation button. See Double opt-in.
- Edit Contact: change profile fields, status, source and custom field values.
You can also open the activity timeline from the table without leaving it: click the clock icon (View activity) on a row.
Row actions
The ⋮ menu on each row offers Edit Status, Resend Confirmation (for Pending contacts, and for Active contacts with a Pending list subscription), and Delete contact. When you are viewing a list, the last one becomes Remove from list, which keeps the contact in your workspace.Troubleshooting
A contact shows as Subscribed on a list but never receives campaigns
A contact shows as Subscribed on a list but never receives campaigns
The contact status wins. If the contact is Unsubscribed, Bounced, Complained or Pending, hovering the list badge explains that they opted in to the list but cannot be sent to.
I can't find Set contact status or Delete contacts in Bulk update
I can't find Set contact status or Delete contacts in Bulk update
Only Owners and Admins can use those actions.