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I thought my previous question was resolved, but not so. We have one audience in our MailChimp account. We have tags that we have created. We don’t have groups, because we do not want to ask our contacts to self select groups they want to be part of. We can create segments using tags.
As MailChimp defines them:
an Audience is our entire contact list
a tag is applied to some contacts to indicate we wish to group them some way
a group is set up to allow our members to choose how they wish to identify themselves
a segment uses conditional statements regarding tags and groups to create a specialized niche contact listOur Audience name has several words, so I have separated each word by an underscore. So if I fill in the field for MailChimp integration in each membership level with a statement that says “Audience_Name | 2022” will the 2022 point to a tag of that name? A group of that name? Or a segment of that name?
I need to make sure I can send a new member’s email address to our MailChimp account with a tag attached to the contact record.
Hi, please check the following documentation to understand how our plugin integrates with MailChimp services.
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/signup-members-mailchimp-list/
Thank you.
I read the documentation. I asked a specific question that the documentation doesn’t specifically address. Your documentation is using out-dated terminology for MailChimp integration. MailChimp doesn’t have lists anymore, they have “audiences.” I’m trying to determine if the niche signup only works if you have “groups” and not with “tags”. According to MailChimp, groups are something you set up so your contacts can choose them; tags are something you create because you want to assign them to contacts. In our case, we use tags because we are not trying to get our contacts to sign up for things; we are just trying to put them in categories. But if groups is the only type of niche audience that Simple Membership works with, we will create groups.
MailChimp keeps changing these things around and the addon is outdated now unfortunately. List name is definitely the same as Audience. I think the tags is what they used to call it groups before. So you will specify tags in there. You will need to do a test to see if that works. I no longer use MailChimp so I can’t test this one right now.
OK, thank you.
I did further testing using the log function and was able to determine that your add-on works with Audience|Group in the new MailChimp terminology.
The documentation is out of date, and two things are wrong with the code that identifies for MailChimp where you want the contact to go:
1. The underscores between words in the name of the audience do not work. You need to type the name of the audience exactly as it is in your MailChimp account. If it’s several words with spaces in between, that’s what you have to type.
2. To let MailChimp know you are switching from Audience to Group, you need to have the “|” separator. But if you put a space before it and after it, as is shown in your documentation, it doesn’t work. It does work if you have no space. So the example should be: “Audience Name|Group 1” and not “Audience_Name | Group_1”When I followed the path I described, my members were placed in our audience within the proper group.
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