Transfer Email Addresses

To send communications from Constant Contact to your eTapestry constituents, you can transfer groups of email addresses from your eTapestry database to your Constant Contact lists. This transfer only includes email addresses without any additional constituent information such as name, address, or phone number. It does not include any constituents who have opted out of communications. You can transfer email addresses to existing lists in Constant Contact or create new lists.

Note: When you transfer email addresses into a Constant Contact list, the transfer appends the new email addresses to the ones on the existing list. If you choose to override the existing list with the transferred email addresses, you may permanently lose existing data.

When a scheduled transfer is complete, eTapestry sends a notification to the email address you indicate on the transfer screen. This message includes information about the transfer, such as total count before and after the transfer and possible reasons for any discrepancies.

Note: Constant Contact can only handle email addresses that contain alphanumeric characters found in the standard English alphabet.

You can transfer email addresses from Constant Contact to eTapestry if you have the import module activated. When importing contacts, always make sure you include a name associated with each new email address. For information about importing accounts, refer to the Import.

  1. From Communications, click Constant Contact. The Blackbaud eTapestry & Constant Contact page appears.

  2. Click Transfer email addresses. The Constant Contact - Transfer Email Addresses screen appears.

    Note: You can also access the transfer process from the Query List page, the Query Definition page, and the Query Preview page.

  3. In Step 1, select a query for the accounts you want to transfer to Constant Contact and which personas you want to include. If you access this process from the query pages, the query is automatically filled in.

  4. In Step 2, enter a name for the new contact list or select an existing Constant Contact list.

    Note: When you transfer email addresses into a Constant Contact list, the transfer appends the new email addresses to the ones on the existing list. If you choose to override the existing list with the transferred email addresses, you may permanently lose existing data.

  5. In Step 3, enter the email address where you want to receive notification of the transfer.

  6. Click Transfer to begin the transfer process.