Move from Substack
Upload your Substack export .zip once for your posts and again for your subscribers.
Download your Substack export .zip and upload it as it is: once as Posts, then once as Subscribers.
- In Substack, open Settings, then Exports, choose Create new export, and download the .zip when it's ready.
- In Facet, open Settings, then Import your work, and pick Substack under Switching from another platform?
- Select Import posts, upload the .zip, select Preview (nothing is written), then Import now. Every post comes over as a draft with its images and subtitle.
- Select Import subscribers, upload the same .zip, preview, then Import now.
- In Import history, use Add as redirects on the posts import so your old links keep working.
If this didn't work
- "The subscriber list in this zip is larger than 25 MB": split the subscriber list and upload it as CSV files instead.
- Some posts stay private: founding-member posts stay private until you choose which tier can read them. Set that before publishing.
Posts for paid subscribers stay for paying members, and posts for free subscribers need a sign-in. People who turned off emails in Substack stay unsubscribed. Substack's export has no names, so subscribers arrive with email only.