Create a seed list to monitor sending activity

Learn to create a seed list to monitor sending activity from your account.

Overview

A seed list is a list of email addresses that are automatically sent a copy of every campaign sent to 2000 contacts or more – this doesn't apply to transactional emails.

It's a good idea to use a seed list, as it lets anyone on it to monitor sending activity from your account. 

Before you start

Things you need to know before you start:

  • A seed list can contain a maximum of 25 email addresses.
  • Sends to a seed list don't count towards your send allowance.
  • Sends to your seed list don't appear in reporting.
  • If your campaign includes dynamic content, the data pulled through is the data of the account owner and not the seed list email addresses.
  • Any external dynamic content doesn't work for sends to seed list contacts.

Add users to the seed list

To add users to the seed list:

  1. Go to Contacts > Advanced features > Seed list.
  2. For Emails, enter the email addresses you'd like to add to your seed list. Only enter one email address per line.

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  3.  Select Update.

Remove users from the seed list

To remove users from the seed list:

  1. Go to Contacts > Advanced features > Seed list.
  2. For Emails, delete any user email addresses you'd like to remove from your seed list. 
  3. Select Update.
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