Before you start

1. You can suppress a contact:
   
1. at a channel level , by suppressing either their email address or mobile number, while leaving the other channel subscribed.
   
2. at a contact level , by suppressing all available channels for that contact.
   
2. To learn more, check out the article Understand contact and channel suppressions .
   
3. Suppressed contacts - those suppressed at a contact level - do not count towards your contact allowance.
   

Suppress contacts from your account

1. File removal - if you have a lot of contacts or channels to suppress, you can do this by uploading a CSV, TXT, Excel or ZIP file.
   
2. Manually - if you have a single or small number of suppressions to perform. This can be done from the Contacts list, or any other list the contact appears in, or from the account suppression list. 
   

If you'd like to suppress contacts from a list only, learn how in Add and remove suppressions from a list.

File removal

To suppress contacts or channels from a file:

1. Go to Audience > Suppressions.
2. Expand the SUPPRESS drop-down menu, then select Import from Excel or .csv.
3. On the Import suppression list screen, select CHOOSE FILE. Select and open the file from your computer.
   If you mistakenly choose the wrong file, you can select CHANGE to choose a new one.
   
   
   
4. Optionally, you can enter an email address in the Email address to notify field. This email address receives a notification when the import is complete.
   If you don’t want to receive a notification, you can leave the field empty.
5. Expand the Encoding type drop-down menu and select your encoding type. UTF-8 is selected by default, and handles most languages.
6. Use the radio buttons to select your suppression method:
1. Suppress only in uploaded channels.
   This option suppresses only the channels explicitly included in your import file. For example, Contact A exists in your account with an email address and a mobile number. Your suppression import file only contains their email address, so their mobile number remains subscribed.
2. Suppress the contact in all associated channels.
   This option suppresses all channels held for the contact associated with the channel identifier in your suppression import file. For example, Contact B exists in your account with an email address and a mobile number. Your suppression import file only contains their email address, but their mobile number is also suppressed once the import is complete.
7. Select UPLOAD.
8. You see a confirmation message of your chosen suppression action. Select YES, SUPPRESS CONTACTS.
9. On the Map the data fields to your suppression list screen, use the Map to contact data field drop-down menus to map your file columns to data fields in your account. Mobile numbers must be mapped to the mobilenumberid data field, and email addresses to the email data field.
10. Select FINISH.
    

1. Go to Audience > Suppressions.
2. Expand the SUPPRESS drop-down menu, then select Add manually.
   
   
   
3. Enter the email address that you want to suppress. Enter details to add a suppression at a contact level.
   
4. Select SUPPRESS CONTACT.
   
   
   

Manual suppression from the Contacts list

1. Go to Audience > Contacts.
2. Find the contact you want to suppress, and select the checkbox for that contact. 
   You can select multiple contacts if you want to, but this means you must suppress each selected contact on the same channel or channels. If you want to select channels separately per contact, perform each suppression individually.
3. Expand the MORE ACTIONS drop-down menu and select Suppress from account.
   
   
4. In the Suppress channels window, select the checkboxes to select which channels you would like to suppress for the selected contact.
   
   
5. Select SUPPRESS, then, in the confirmation window, select OKAY.