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Mailchimp provides an email marketing services platform. Features include campaign design, tracking, segmentation and audience management.

Supported Features

  • Email Marketing Campaign Design Campaign Tracking
  • Audience Forwarding

mParticle supports two “flavors” of integration with Mailchimp:

  1. Forwarding of audiences created with mParticle’s Audience Manager to Mailchimp, for email marketing purposes. This integration can be activated from Audience Manager. For further details, please see the Audience Integration topic
  2. Forwarding of all your apps’ users to an “all-users” Mailchimp audience, for further analysis, segmentation, and email campaign targeting in Mailchimp. This functionality is the focus of this section.

Prerequisites

In order to activate mParticle’s audience integration with Mailchimp you must:

  1. Provide your Mailchimp API Key.
  2. Create a Mailchimp Audience.
  3. Provide the Mailchimp Audience ID.

mParticle to Mailchimp User Attribute Mapping

The following mParticle user attributes will be mapped to corresponding Mailchimp attributes:

mParticle Attribute Mailchimp Tag
$FirstName FNAME
$LastName LNAME

If you would like to send other user attributes to the “all-users” audience, you can add additional fields to your audience by following these Mailchimp instructions.

The following mParticle user attributes will be mapped to corresponding Mailchimp Tags:

mParticle Attribute Mailchimp Tag
$Gender GENDER
$Age AGE
$Country COUNTRY
$Zip ZIP
$City CITY
$State STATE
$Address ADDRESS
$Mobile MOBILE

All other User Attributes will be mapped using the name of the User Attribute. For example, if you have a user attribute “Status”, create a Mailchimp “Status” field with a tag of “STATUS”.

You can setup User Attribute filters to control which attributes are sent to Mailchimp.

Configuration Settings

Setting Name Data Type Default Value Description
API Key string Your Mailchimp API Key which can be found at http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/where-can-i-find-my-api-key

Connection Settings

Setting Name Data Type Default Value Platform Description
Delete on Unsubscribe bool False All If enabled, mParticle will automatically delete users from your audience when they unsubscribe.
Double Opt-In bool True All If enabled, newly-added users will receive an email asking them to confirm their subscription to the Mailchimp audience. Otherwise, users will be automatically subscribed to the audience at the same time that they are added to the audience.
Email Type string html All This setting defines whether users in this audience will receive plaintext or HTML emails. The default value is HTML.
Audience ID string All The Mailchimp Audience ID that we will use to represent this audience in Mailchimp.

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