How to Remove Cleaned Contacts from Mailchimp

Quick summary

Removing cleaned contacts from Mailchimp helps keep your audience list healthy and reduces unnecessary contact counts. This guide walks through using the Data Management Tool to permanently delete unwanted contacts from your Mailchimp dashboard.

Steps

1. In your Mailchimp dashboard, click Audience to proceed.
2. Under Audience, select All contacts.
3. Click the Manage contacts drop-down menu.
4. Scroll until you see Data Management Tool.
5. Check the box next to each contact you want to delete.
6. Click Permanently Delete.
7. In the Are you sure? pop-up modal, type PERMANENTLY DELETE and click Confirm.