Mailchimp

Authentication is handled via OAuth, click the "Connect to Mailchimp" button, and you will be redirected to Mailchimp to authorize the connection to PropFuel.

After connecting with Mailchimp, you will be prompted to select the Mailchimp Audience you want to use.  All Mailchimp API calls are made on a per audience basis, if you have more than one audience that you would like to connect with, you can install multiple instances of the connector, and will select an audience for each one.

Merge Fields associated with your Members in Mailchimp can be mapped to PropFuel.

Contacts are pulled into campaigns through the following triggers:

• List Members - This will pull everyone that belongs to an audience, but allows you to filter by subscription status.  This is useful if you would like to pull all subscribers, or setup a trigger to remove members from a campaign when they unsubscribe in Mailchimp.

• Segment Members - This will pull all subscribers who belong to a segment of your list in Mailchimp.  Segments include tags, as well as any user defined segments you have created.

The following actions can be used to write data back to Mailchimp from a question level workflow

• Add/Update Member - Adds or updates a member on your list.  If the person does not already exist in Mailchimp, they will be added to your list.  You can also set tags and notes in Mailchimp for that member, which can be used to kick off further automation in Mailchimp.

For more information on how to write back data to a contact field, see our help article. 

You can also use Embed Campaigns to embed PropFuel questions directly into emails you send out through Mailchimp.  This does not require the Mailchimp connector to be configured in PropFuel, but can be done entirely through merge fields in Mailchimp.

1. Create an Embed Campaign in PropFuel, and configure your question

2. On the settings tab, use the external link builder tool to generate links for each response you want to embed in your email

3. Make sure to select at least Email as an included field, you can also pass their name if you have that information available in Mailchimp

4. In Mailchimp, design your email, including your question and answers that you want the user to be able to click on in the email.  Answers can be formatted as text, images, or buttons, but will need to be a link

5. For each answer, grab the relevant link from PropFuel and paste it as the link destination in Mailchimp

6. To connect the merge tags, replace the placeholder tokens in the URL generated by PropFuel with the appropriate merge tags in Mailchimp.  For example: {{Email}} becomes *|EMAIL|*

As long as those merge tags are configured correctly, the information to identify the user will be passed to PropFuel along with the answer, and you will be able to track who responded to the question.  You can also fire actions based on the responses just like you would for a question that is delivered via PropFuel directly.