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I’m using your template to prepare data for import. Here is the data which is prepared in .csv format
user_name first_name last_name address_street address_city address_state address_zipcode country email phone subscription_starts member_since membership_level account_state test126 ZAdam Buckham 123 malibu street California 12333 12345678 30/03/2020 30/03/2020 2 active test127 Zfred Bloggs 12345678 21/08/2020 21/08/2020 2 activeWhen the data is imported the “access starts” shows 0000-00-00 and “member since” 1970-01-01
as a result when the member tries to log in they see “account expired”
An empty value for “member_since” is interpreted as 0 seconds from 1970-01-01. The spreadsheet snippet you are showing “doesn’t look right.” Please post the actual CSV file text you are using.
I found the answer; on our installation bulk member EXPORT shows the date in UK format;
example: 28/07/2020
HOWEVER bulk member IMPORT requires the date in ISO format https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date
(formally YYYY-MM-DD, but bulk member import seems to accept YYYY/MM/DD )
when I put the date as 2020/08/18 the member list is imported correctly.
May I respectfully suggest this issue would likeley not have arisen if the template file included dates?
Thank you. Openning the CSV file using excel will automatically re-format any date values in there to your computer’s date format. Then when the file is saved, it will have incorrectly formatted date value. So that can also cause an issue.
I have added instructions in the following page explaining that any date values need to be entered in the YYYY/MM/DD format. Example value: 2020/06/21
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-bulk-import-member-data-csv-file/
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