DropContacts
Import in ten minutes. Stay legal for good.
Bring your list across from whatever you use now. Drop maps the columns, catches duplicates, records how each person consented, and refuses to email anyone who asked you to stop.
How it works
Three things it does well.
Your export, whatever shape it is in
Real exports have awkward column names, inconsistent capitalisation and duplicates. Drop expects that.
- Columns detected for you
- Email Address, Given Name, Surname. It works them out and lets you correct it.
- Duplicates caught
- Including the same address in different capitalisation.
- Tells you what it skipped
- Invalid addresses are reported with examples, not silently dropped.
Screenshot: column mapping, with columns detected automatically
Consent, recorded properly
GDPR asks you to show why you hold someone’s address, and when they agreed. Drop asks the why once, at import, and keeps each person’s own sign-up date and source from your export, so the record survives the person who imported them.
- A basis on every contact
- Signed up, bought something, met you at an event, or moved with you from another tool.
- Their own sign-up date
- Kept from your export when it has one, like Mailchimp’s opt-in time. Otherwise marked as the day they were added, never passed off as the day they agreed.
- Export or delete on request
- Both are one click, because both are rights.
Screenshot: the consent question at import
Unsubscribes that actually hold
In most tools an unsubscribe is a flag some code has to remember to check. In Drop the database refuses the write.
- Enforced in the database
- Not in application logic that could have a bug.
- Survives re-import
- Uploading an old CSV cannot resurrect someone who left.
- Case-insensitive
- The most common way people get wrongly re-added.
Diagram: an import attempting to re-add an unsubscribed address and being rejected
The rest of Drop
It only works because the other parts do.
Social
LinkedIn and Instagram, on the same calendar as your email.
Social →
Research
Give it your website. It learns your business.
Research →
The composer
Describe it in a sentence. Get a finished email.
Composer →
The suggestions feed
The part that stops you falling off.
Suggestions →
Deliverability
Your domain. Your reputation.
Deliverability →
Send the next one.
The hardest email to send, and the hardest post to write, is the one after the last one you never did.