To apply a specific customer category to a bulk list of customers, follow the steps below on how to import a CSV list to customer categories:
Step 1: Export your Customer Account Codes
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- Navigate to Customers -> List customers
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- Show hide the correct column “Account codes”
- Show “all” Rows
- Export to CSV
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- Open the exported list in Excel
Step 2: Manipulate the Data in Excel
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- In cell B2 (next to your first Account Code) Type the following: =A2 then press enter.
This will result in the same account code displaying next to one another.
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- Directly below in cell B3, type the following: =B2&”,”&A3 then press enter.
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- Hover your cursor over the bottom right corner of cell B3, when a cross (+) appears, double-click to apply the formula to the entire column.
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- Scroll to the last row of data. Select the cell in the B column containing all the account codes, separated with a comma and copy the contents of the cell.
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Step 3: Apply the Category to all your customers
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- Open the add to customer’s button of newly created category.
- Paste the values which you just copied into the text field, and select “add to customers”.
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- The category will now be applied to all customers