Leads & lists3 steps

Creating and deleting lists

Lists are the folders your leads live in; a lead belongs to one list at a time, and deleting a list permanently deletes the leads in it.

Where: Leads → New list (top right) · Leads → open a list → Delete list

How to do it

  1. Click New list, type a name in List name (up to 80 characters, e.g. "Agency owners") and click Create list. You land on the new, empty list.
  2. To fill it, click Import CSV with the list open (it is pre-selected under Add to), or add people from the Lead Database and choose the list there.
  3. To remove a list, open it and click Delete list. Read the confirmation carefully — it names the list and the number of leads that will be permanently removed — then confirm.

Good to know

  • Lists can also be created on the fly: in the Import CSV dialog choose "Create a new list…" under Add to, and in the Lead Database's Add to list and Add in bulk dialogs choose "New list…". Export CSV always creates its own new list named "Export YYYY-MM-DD".
  • A lead is in exactly one list. Importing an email that already exists in your workspace (with "Merge into existing leads" on) moves that lead into the list you are importing into.
  • Delete list deletes the list AND every lead in it, removes those people from any campaigns and deletes their send history. Replies you have already received are kept. This cannot be undone. Deleting the leads frees room in your workspace for new ones.
  • The count beside each list excludes suppressed (bounced/unsubscribed) people.
  • If you delete a list that contained people added from the Lead Database, re-adding those same people later doesn't use your Lead Database allowance again — you never pay twice for the same person. Once they're back in your leads they take room again, like any lead.

More in Leads & lists

Leads & listsBrowsing, searching and filtering your leadsThe Leads page is every person in your workspace in one table, with a search box, Status and Campaign filters, and a Columns picker that includes every column you ever imported.Leads & listsImporting leads from a CSVUpload a CSV, map each column to a field (only Email is required), and the import runs on our servers in the background — each new lead takes room in your workspace; updates are free.Leads & listsDaily Drip: verify a big list a set number a day, into one or more campaignsUpload a list of up to 50,000 once. On each campaign's sending days, just before its window opens, MailFleet checks that campaign's share of the next addresses with your plan's daily email checks and adds the results you choose to it — so you don't need checks for the whole list up front, or to upload it in chunks.Leads & listsCustom variables from import columnsAny CSV column that is not a standard field becomes a {{variable}} you can drop into subjects and bodies, and it is editable per lead on the lead card.

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