Adding people in bulk

Roster → Add people in bulk takes a pasted list — one person per line — and shows you exactly what it will do before anything is written.

What you can paste

The import accepts the shapes people actually have on their clipboard:

Ada Lovelace <ada@example.com>                    # copied recipients from Outlook
Grace Hopper, grace@example.com
Katherine Johnson, katherine@example.com, Flight  # third field is the team
Alan Turing alan@example.com    Engineering        # tab-separated, from Excel
ada.lovelace@example.com                          # name guessed from the address

Blank lines, # comments, and a spreadsheet header row are ignored — paste a whole exported sheet and it sorts itself out.

The preview

Press Review changes and Pourover shows a "What this will do" card before writing anything: "12 to add · 3 to update · 1 unchanged", with each line marked:

Action	Meaning
add	New person. If they have an email, an invitation goes out.
update	Matched an existing person by email; their name or team is refreshed. No duplicate is created.
unchanged	Already on file exactly like this.
skipped	The line couldn't be parsed — the reason is shown under it.

Problem lines are skipped while everything else still imports, so you can fix them and review again, or just proceed. Press Import n changes to apply.

What happens after

• New people with an email address get one invitation and appear as Invited; they join the pairings only once they accept. Invitations count against the 50-per-day limit — a large first roster may need the site admin to lift the cap for a day.
• Someone you removed earlier who appears in an import is treated as rejoining — never duplicated.
• Someone who declined stays declined. A re-import can never re-invite or re-spam a person who said no.

Safe to re-run

Because matching is by email, importing the same list twice is harmless — the second pass reads as all unchanged. Re-pasting a fresh export of your team list is a fine way to keep the roster current: joiners are added and invited, name changes are picked up, and nobody is touched twice.