Searching for contacts
To search for contacts, head to the Lists page and click the list you want to search in. Once you're viewing that list, type the contact's detail you'd like to search them by, for example, an email address and click the magnifying glass:
You can use the Search to look up a user based on their email address, status, last updated date, added date and any custom field. By default, our search prioritises searches based on the email address and will return both subscribed and unsubscribed contacts. To further narrow the search, use one of these Advanced search filters.
Filters
| Filter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| email: | Searches for an email address. | email:john.smith@gmail.com |
| firstname: | Searches the first name field. | firstname:John |
| lastname: | Searches the last name field. | lastname:Smith |
| status: | Search for a contact based on their status (Subscribed, Unsubscribed, Pending). | status:subscribed |
| added: | Search for contacts added on a specific date using the YYYY-MM-DD format | added:2019-08-01 |
| lastchanged: | Search for contacts based on when they were last updated using the YYYY-MM-DD format | lastchanged:2020-01-28 |
| fieldtag: | Search for contacts based on data in your list fields. | age:50 or address:london |
| tag: | Search for contacts based on data in your tags | tag:customer |
Supported operators
We also allow the use of advanced operators to search more specifically in a field.
| Operator | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| : | Text/email field: contains the value. Date field: The date matches this date Number field: The number matches this number |
email:jaya added:2019-12-28 age:28 |
| :> | Date field: The date is after this date. Number field: The number is larger than this number |
added:>2019-12-28 age:>17 |
| :< | Date field: The date is before this date. Number field: The number is smaller than this number |
added:<2020-01-28 age:<66 |
| :>= | Date field: The date is on or after this date. Number field: The number matches or is larger than this number |
added:>=2020-01-28 age:>=18 |
| :<= | Date field: The date is on or before this date. Number field: The number matches or is smaller than this number |
added:<=2020-01-28 age:<=65 |
Combining and excluding terms
You can use more than one search term to narrow down your search and reduce the number of results. You can also exclude any search filters with a hyphen - so that matches for it are not included.
| Example | Description |
|---|---|
| email:gmail added:>2019-12-31 | The email address contains the phrase Gmail and they were added after 31st December 2019 |
| firstname:otto added:>2019-12-28 added:<2020-01-15 | The first name contains the phrase Otto and they were added after Dec 28 2019, but before Jan 15 2020. |
| firstname:otto -email:gmail | The first name contains the phrase Otto and the email address does not contain the phrase Gmail |
| email:gmail|hotmail | The email address contains the phrase Gmail or Hotmail |