Uploading forum members

Hi @DougS,

My name is Antanas and I work as a product manager at Wix. I will answer your question.

First of all, you can upload your contacts as CSV file to Contacts. Learn more about it here https://support.wix.com/en/article/importing-contacts-by-uploading-a-csv-file. However, you cannot manually turn your contacts into site members. Instead, you would need to send an email campaign asking them to register. Please read more here https://support.wix.com/en/article/sending-an-email-campaign-to-a-specific-contact-label.

We constantly try to improve our product and we have feature request to allow Site Owners to turn Contacts into Site Members. Please vote and follow this article to be notified when we will release this feature https://support.wix.com/en/article/request-manually-setting-contacts-as-site-members.

Hope that helped.

Thank you so much for the prompt reply to my question. I see that the csv upload includes option to make them all subscribers. An additional option to make them all members would be great--removing the task of making them members after they register.

For uploaded contacts, after they register, do I have to edit their permissions one-by-one to make them members? Or is there a screen where I can multi-select registrants to make them members? Similarly, I will then be assigning roles to subsets--is that one-by-one, or can I multi-select and then assign a common role? (I'm just building the site now and identifying all the workflows.)

Thanks again!