Constant Contact
Welcome to Buttondown! After you've read through our "Getting Started" guide, we're here to help you with your next step: transferring your subscribers from your old email platform to Buttondown.
Exporting your subscribers
Constant Contact uses the word 'contacts' to refer to what Buttondown calls 'subscribers'.
Export your Constant Contact contacts by following the instructions in Constant Contact's documentation.
Constant Contact will prompt you to select any fields you want to export. When you import your data into Buttondown, you'll be able to include notes, date created, and tags. Anything else you want to include can be added as custom metadata.
Importing your subscribers to Buttondown
Navigate to the "Subscribers" tab of your Buttondown dashboard to complete the import process.
To learn more, read Importing your subscribers.
Importing your archives (campaigns)
Constant Contact uses the word 'campaigns' to refer to what Buttondown calls 'archives.'
According to Constant Contact (as of November 2021):
There isn't a way to export the campaigns. The one way is to download the email campaigns as an image or PDF.
You can save or print your email campaigns as PDFs by following the instructions in Constant Contact's documentation. Contact us and we'll help you with importing your archives.
You did it!
After you complete the procedures above, Buttondown begins an audit and migration process to make sure everything is in order. After that completes, you should be safe to disable or deactivate your Constant Contact account.