It would be extremely helpful to be able to import a list of leads into Populi. It is very time consuming to manually enter information for each lead. We sometimes have long lists of new leads from events, fairs, etc. in a spreadsheet format that need entered, and it would be much easier to be able to upload the list and automatically import the new leads into Populi.
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Adam Sentz Official comment We recently added the ability to import batches of person records in Contacts. Read about it on the blog.
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Perry Cash Great idea Jennifer--put us down for 'us too!'
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Brian Condra I would love to see this as well!
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Kirk Fatool This is a MUST. We just finished a conference where we get anywhere from 100 to 200 leads. Right now they all need to be entered individually
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Mike Krauss Agreed, this would be very helpful!!
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Leah Cornelius Yes, this would significantly reduce the workload in our office.
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David Lorimer Absolutely critical. We are actually not using Populi because of this problem right now. I just gained 800 leads. I can manually enter them all into Populi .... or I can import them into my other software. Populi loses. Essential feature to have!
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Adam Sentz @David - We can usually import that sort of thing for you. Looks like you have already contacted Support so you should be good to go.
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Mike Krauss @Adam - And we truly appreciate it! Honestly, I feel bad every time I ask (which is every 2 weeks right now), so it would be great to not have to impose on Populi Support regularly.
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Adam Sentz @Mike - Hey it's not your fault we haven't had time to build it yet 😂
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Matt Ayars Ready yet?
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Duncan Carter This feature would be a total blessing. Anyway access to this soon?
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Benji Swafford Please update Populi to include this feature soon! Contacting support each time a mass of lead data needs to be imported is not realistic due to the fact that this sort of thing is consistently needed. We need to have the ability to do this on our end without depending on Support or manually entering each one.
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Adam Sentz Benji Swafford - We agree that this is a thing Populi should do, and we have a plan to include it. We need to have a couple other things in place first, but the good news is the first one of those is coming fairly soon. Stay tuned.
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Robert Frankel @adam will this lead to allowing for importing other data too?
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Georgeann Barrow That would be amazing!! Can we please make this happen??
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Brenda Gibson We really need this to happen as well. We are importing lists on a daily basis and sometimes multiple times a day. By not having this feature, you are limiting the timeliness of our interaction with prospects and potential students.
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Chris Vetter I would echo what has been said. The ability to import leads would be a great step forward in allowing schools to respond to prospective students much quicker.
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Alli Sorensen Agreed - this would allow us to respond to leads much more efficiently. We typically run from 3-10 imports on any given day and sending them on to support will not be a feasible long-term solution.
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Ken Driver (staff) It would be faster to be able to run daily imports ourselves. Daily entering our leads manually increases the potential for mistakes.
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Jane Campbell Any updates on this feature? It is absolutely necessary to Admissions teams.
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Adam Sentz Jane Campbell - Nothing further to report at this time. We'll post an update here if that changes.
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Jacqueline Roatch This feature would be very helpful and NEEDED. Please add asap.
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Jacob Rush I agree. This would be a huge asset for recruitment teams.
Related to this would be the ability to upload a CSV sheet for tags for already existing leads.
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