Verify your list before importing into ActiveCampaign

Why ActiveCampaign imports need a clean list

ActiveCampaign is an email service provider with heavy automation on top. When you import a list, every contact becomes eligible for automations, broadcasts, and drip series, and ActiveCampaign meters your account health on how those messages perform. Bounce rate is one of the first metrics it reacts to: import a list full of dead addresses and your first broadcast produces a bounce spike that ActiveCampaign — and the mailbox providers behind it — read as a spam signal.

ActiveCampaign will suspend or review accounts whose bounce and complaint rates climb, because your sending shares infrastructure reputation with other senders on the platform. A single bad import can trigger a deliverability review, throttle your sends, and land your good contacts in the promotions tab or spam folder. Cleaning the list before import is far cheaper than recovering a flagged account.

Verifly verifies each address with a live SMTP check and returns deliverable, undeliverable, or risky, plus disposable, role, and catch-all flags. Import only the deliverable rows and ActiveCampaign sees a healthy bounce rate from day one, keeping your sender score and inbox placement intact.

Verify before the ActiveCampaign import

1. Export or assemble the list you plan to import as a CSV with an email column.
2. Register a free Verifly key at verifly.email/api/v1/autonomous/register: 100 credits, no card, no captcha.
3. POST the email column to /verify/batch. Split very large lists into chunks and merge the results.
4. Keep the deliverable rows, drop the undeliverable and disposable ones, and quarantine risky rows for a separate low-risk send.
5. Import the clean CSV into ActiveCampaign and start your automations against real subscribers.

const emails = listRows.map(r => r.email)

const res = await fetch('https://verifly.email/api/v1/verify/batch', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer vf_your_api_key',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ emails }),
})

const { results } = await res.json()
const importable = results.filter(r => r.result === 'deliverable')
console.log(`Importing ${importable.length} clean contacts into ActiveCampaign`)