Importing business locations – mypresences

If you have many business to manage its is best to import them into myPresences.

This can be done from the top of your account page by clicking on the three dot menu and choosing Import Businesses.

Import File

Businesses can imported from a CSV (comma separated) or TSV (tab separated) file.

This file can be created by you or exported from another application where you manage your business locations.

The file should be saved to the local file system of your computer.

We recommend using a TSV file when possible to better support embedded commas in import files.

The import file should contain a header row with the names of the columns to be imported and a row for each business to be imported.

The import file should contain the following columns with one of the supported headers.

Business Name	name, business_name, businessname, business name
Street Address	street, street address, street_address
Locality	locality, suburb, city
Region	region, state, county
Postal Code	postcode, zip, postalcode, postal_code
Phone Number	phone, phonenumber, phone_number
Website Url	website, web, weburl, web_url
Email Address	email, email_address, emailaddress

To import your business once you have prepared your import file.

Go to your account page.
Click on the three dot menu at the top of the page and choose Import Businesses.
Select the import file from your file system.
Once the businesses have loaded check each one to ensure the information is correct and you have as many of the columns filled as possible.
Click the Import Button.
Your businesses will be added to your account page as Pending.

When a business is pending it has no license and is free.

You can use pending businesses to:

Load in all businesses for an agency for future use
Add all locations in a multi location business
When adding a business you can move presences to pending businesses when they better match that business

Pending businesses are not onboarded so will have no presences, reviews or other information until they are activated.

To activate a pending business:

Click on the three dots menu to the right of the business in your account business list.
Choose the activate option.

The business will then use a license and start the onboarding process to load presences, reviews and start managing the business.