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List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap — ActiveCampaign
Checked for ActiveCampaign on 5 Oct 2026
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- https://developers.activecampaign.com/reference/bulk-import-contacts
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- 5 Oct 2026, 03:01 UTC
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Bulk import endpoint Report an error
“POST https://{youraccountname}.api-us1.com/api/3/import/bulk_import”
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Bulk import batch size Report an error
“Import up to 250 contacts in one request.”
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Bulk import asynchronous Report an error
“Asynchronous: the response returns a batchId and a successful response only means the import was accepted, not finished — poll GET /import/info with the batchId to confirm it completed before relying on the results.”
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Bulk import upsert by email Report an error
“Contacts are matched by email (or by email_hash): existing contacts are updated and new ones are created, so an import is safe when some of the contacts already exist.”
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Bulk import all plans Report an error
“The Bulk Contact Importer API is available on all ActiveCampaign plans”
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Bulk import automations exclusion Report an error
“If exclude_automations: true is included in the payload, automations will NOT run when bulk importing contacts. By default, automations will run when doing a bulk import.”
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Bulk import small batch guidance Report an error
“If you need to upload 10 or fewer contacts at a time, please use the Contacts functionality of our ActiveCampaign API V3.”
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Bulk import rate limits Report an error
“For requests containing a single contact, there is a limit of 20 requests per minute For requests containing multiple contacts, there is a limit of 100 requests per minute”
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Bulk import payload limit Report an error
“The maximum payload size of a single bulk_import request must be less than less than 400K bytes (399,999 bytes or less).”
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Bulk import exclusion list Report an error
“Any emails emails contained in a bulk import will be compared against your "Email Exclusions" list.”
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Bulk import list status active Report an error
“Contacts added to a list this way get list status active.”
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Bulk import duplicate request guard Report an error
“Sending the exact same request body again while the first import of it is still running (or for up to 24 hours if it never finishes) is rejected with 400”
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Bulk import callback Report an error
“Optional. A request the importer makes to your endpoint when the import finishes. This is the only way to receive per-row failure reasons for an API import.”
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Bulk import permission required Report an error
“Requires the contact import permission.”
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Bulk import contacts without email Report an error
“Set to true to allow contacts that have a phone number but no email. Each such contact is identified by its phone.”
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Bulk import tags autocreate Report an error
“use each contact's subscribe array to add it to lists, and its tags array to tag it (tags that do not exist are created).”
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Webhook suppression param Report an error
“Set to false to suppress webhooks for the imported contacts. When omitted, contact, custom field and tag webhooks are sent but list subscription webhooks are not; set to true to send list webhooks as well.”
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Bulk import error responses Report an error
“403 The API user does not have the contact import permission. 413 The request body is 400,000 bytes or larger.”
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Bulk import field options param Report an error
“Set to true so custom field values that do not match an existing option of a dropdown, list box, radio or checkbox field are not added as new options.”
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Bulk import delete after Report an error
“A date and time after which the import's per-contact status records may be removed.”
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Bulk import related endpoints Report an error
“Summarize recent API bulk imports by day GET Bulk import status info GET”