Mailchimp Integration

Mailchimp is a 3rd party product used for email marketing and news letters. 


An ODSNet site can have a form, "Sign up for New letter", this form can be linked to a Mailchimp account. 


The following features are supported by the ODSNet Mailchimp API and the mailchimp related features on ODSNet. 


Subscribe

 

Mailchimp Subscribe (without registering a B2C account), creates a record in user table with Type "M". 
This means that you can subscribe to a mailchimp news letter without being a B2B customer.

(If a site prefers to only allow user that are registered on ODSNet to subscribe to news letter, then the registration form can be configured to only be displayed to logged-in users. )

Mailchimp API
 
The Mailchimp API transfers:
- Creates a Mailchimp user entry in specified listid in Mailchimp 
- Transfers the following Order information:
  • last order date
  • ordered from Category (Group) and SubGroup
  • Ordered Brands
 
 
  1. Mailchimp Subscribe requires Dictionary Lookup, Default Cash account to be setup. 
  1. Webconfig 
Search for mailchimp, need from Mailchimp Account
  • The      Mailchimp API version, see example below. 
  • The      API key
  • The      List ID that ODSNet should populate. 
 
Example data below. 
 
 
<add key="MAILCHIMP_API_URL" value="... see mailchimp" />
<add key="Mailchimp_API_KEY" value="1234xxxx123123123f1cb7ec1-us11" />
<add key="Mailchimp_LIST_ID" value="11aa22bb999" />

Areas of interest (optional):
At registration, there is an option to display "Areas of interest". By default all Type of Goods are areas of interest. The user can select which Type of Goods they are interested in when they register.

As the site might have Type of Goods that are not relevant to display to the user ( e.g. Type of Goods no longer for sale, Type of Goods created for marketing purpose but no longer in use etc. ). There is a system configuration to exclude such, unwanted , Type of Goods from being displayed as options in the list of Areas of interest.
 
Dictionary Lookup / System configuration: Mailchimp
ExcludeTypes
 
 
Comma separate all Types to exclude from "Areas of Interest" , or set to "All" (means exclude all)
 
Scheduled service ( synch of Sales data).
Service to transfer subscription and Sales data from ODSNet to Mailchimp

ServiceType: Mailchimp
Service: Update Subscriber

See also Service Configuration Maintenance