Optimizely Data Platform (ODP) uses customer data to create segmentation, reports and personalized customer content. Importing customer data occurs by uploading historical data and syncing ongoing data through either files or APIs.

Here are some helpful links:

• Customer fields reference – Reviewing your existing default and custom customer fields.
• Creating custom fields – Creating and reviewing custom customer fields.
• Adding customers to lists – Adding customers to email lists.
• Adding customer events – Integrating customer events (actions) into your account.

Upload historical data

Import all customers and the metadata associated with them. This is especially important if your customer data is currently in a system that does not integrate directly with ODP, or if you have custom attributes key to your business.

The example below shows a correctly formatted customer import. File names for these imports begin with zaius_customers.

Importing Custom Information

You will need to create custom fields if your import contains information that does not align with existing ODP fields. Once you have created a suitable field, you can import the associated information by including the field name (home_store) as a header in your import. Do not use the display name (Home Store).

Importing Marketing Consent Information

In ODP, marketing consent is an attribute of each identifier (for example, each email address), not the customer, and is not updated by the method above. If no value is provided for consent (null), consent is implied. To set an explicit consent value or learn more about consent in ODP, please reference this article.

Sync Ongoing Data

To capture ongoing customer data, you will want to track when a customer subscribes on a form, orders, logs in, registers for an account and so on. Essentially we recommend tracking any instance where a customer can identify themselves. This identification may be through identifiable information explicitly provided in the submission, such as an email, or it may be associated with their tracking information and the associated customer ID.

In either case, ODP will review the identifiable information when this data syncs to your account. If an email or customer ID is provided that is not already in your account, ODP will create a new customer profile. Meanwhile, if the email or customer ID already exists, ODP will update the appropriate fields and events on the existing customer profile instead.

HTTP API

Send customer data through the Customers API. 

JavaScript

Send customer data using the JS method.