If you need to ask for and store more information about a user than his/her name and email address, you can easily do so by adding custom fields to your subscriber lists. These custom fields should correspond directly with the information you're asking your users to provide when they sign up.
Within these custom fields, you can store different types of data, including single lines of text, numbers, paragraphs, and so on. You can also store more complex values, such as checkbox-, dropdown-, or multiple choice-type lists.
You create different custom fields for each list, so to work with custom fields, navigate to the Subscribers page, and click to open the list to which you want to add custom fields.
On the Overview page for the subscriber list, you'll see the Custom Fields section to the right.
You can create a new custom field by clicking Add a new custom field. This brings up a configuration screen where you can define what you want your field to look like.
You'll need to provide two pieces of information:
The following drop-down menu contains a list of the field types you can create.
When you've picked a field type and set the label, click Save to persist your changes. You'll see the following confirmation if your field was successfully created.
