Verify your Woodpecker prospects before a campaign
Woodpecker has no SimpleVerifier connector. Because Woodpecker uses the email as the unique ID, the simplest clean flow is to export, verify, and import only the valid file into the campaign, rather than updating prospects already in it.
The workflow
- In Woodpecker open the Prospects section, tick the prospects or click Select all, then click the Export icon. To export one campaign's prospects open the campaign, go to Prospects, select them and choose Export as .csv from Actions. A filter of Contacted: No exports only the people you have not emailed yet.
- Upload the CSV on the verify page, signed in; the first 100 checks are free. The email column is found by its header or contents and every other column is kept.
- When the job finishes, download the valid, risky and invalid files. Each keeps all of your original columns.
- Before importing, delete any status column the file has (for example one holding valid or risky): Woodpecker only accepts statuses it already has, in capital letters, and an unknown value breaks the row.
- In the campaign's Prospects section choose to import a file (CSV, XLS or XLSX, UTF-8; up to 20,000 prospects per upload). Tick Ignore column headings if the first row is a header, or Woodpecker reads it as an email and errors.
- Match the non-email columns yourself (unmatched ones are not imported), import the valid file, and download the error file if any rows fail. Keep the invalid file out of Woodpecker.
Menu names follow Woodpecker’s own help articles, checked 12 Nov 2026: export prospects, importing prospects from CSV or Excel. Vendors rename menus, so trust what you see on screen if it differs. SimpleVerifier is not a Woodpecker partner and has no Woodpecker connector.
Columns to map
- Email, the unique ID; it is recognised automatically.
- First name, company and other merge fields, matched by hand during import.
- No result or status column. Woodpecker rejects status values it does not know, so import only the valid file.
What to do with risky and catch-all results
Run risky addresses in a separate small campaign from a different mailbox than your main one, at a low daily limit, with the same copy. If the bounce rate is low after a few days, add more; if it is not, stop and keep them out.
What people use it for
- Clean a scraped or purchased lead file before the first Woodpecker campaign.
- Re-check an old prospect database before a follow-up wave.
- Keep bounces under control on a sending mailbox that is still warming up.
Using the result
Each address comes back valid (the mail server confirmed the mailbox), risky (delivery could not be confirmed: a catch-all domain, a role address such as info@, or a provider that hides mailbox status) or invalid (it will bounce, or it is a throwaway address).
Full endpoint reference, error codes and an OpenAPI file are in the API docs. For lists of thousands of addresses, upload a CSV on the verify page instead.
Comparing tools? See email verifiers for Woodpecker compared, with prices checked on each vendor’s site.
Run your 100 free checks on one list before you switch anything
Export one list’s addresses as a CSV and upload it: the first 100 are checked free in the dashboard, no card needed. Compare the results with what you use now, then decide. Nothing in Woodpecker changes until you import a file back.
Common questions
- Which plans include API access for Woodpecker?
- API access comes with Pro, Business and Agency, listed on the pricing page; Starter covers CSV verification only. A key on a plan without API access gets a 402 that says so. Each key can make 120 calls a minute.
- Does Woodpecker verify emails itself?
- We have not checked what Woodpecker verifies on its side and make no claim about it. This page covers verifying your file with SimpleVerifier before import.
- Is there a SimpleVerifier connector for Woodpecker?
- No. The route is export, verify and import, as above.