MailChimp
Sync your MailChimp contacts to Alpine IQ and take advantage of our data analytics and marketing features. Read on below to see how to connect your account and begin pushing contacts back and forth.
For both connection options, you will need to grab your API Key from your MailChimp account, if you need help locating where to find it check out the article here.
Use this to pull in your email contacts:
1.Head to the Settings tab in your left navigation bar and then click Data Integrations. 2. Search for the MailChimp integration card (make sure it is labeled as a Data Source) then click the green Connect button
3. Paste in your API Key you grabbed from the MailChimp account and paste it in the Key field:
4. Turn on the toggle labeled All users are age compliant with my industry?. This is you confirming that all users coming from MailChimp have passed an age gate compliant with your industry.
5. Click the green Update Connection button and you are now connected!
Note: the following settings are optional so please review before enabling!
Other Integration Settings:
Send Text double-optins if imported after: X Date - Set this to trigger a opt-in text to be sent for every new phone number that is pull into AIQ after the date set. (The double opt-in message is set in the Texting Settings page) Sourced contacts are considered loyal: X Date - Forces all customers to be enrolled in your loyalty program and begin accruing points starting from the date set. Use Alpine IQ's last backup: Turn this on to freeze your data from this source from the last audience run and discontinue hitting the sources API for new data. - DO NOT USE THIS UNLESS YOU ARE SWITCHING SYSTEMS AND NEED TO PRESERVE DATA
Meta Data - If you only want to source certain lists from your MailChimp Account supply the specific List IDs and associate the Audience ID from Alpine ID
Use this to push AIQ audiences back to MailChimp:
1.Head to the Settings tab in your left navigation bar and then click Data Integrations.
2. Search for the MailChimp integration card (make sure it is labeled as a Data Destination) then click the green Connect button
3. Paste in your API Key you grabbed from the MailChimp account and paste it in the Key field:
4. Fill in the PermissionReminder field with a statement like "Subscribed to receive emails from *YOUR COMPANY NAME HERE*" - Check out MailChimp's documentation for suggestions 5. Click the big green Update Connection button to save the settings
You are now connected!
If you want to send particular audiences to be sent back into MailChimp, you will need to map the audiences to their respective lists
1.Create your Audience you want to filter by.
2. At the bottom of the Audience Builder, click the checkbox next to the MailChimp logo:
3. After you click the green Save Audience button, make sure to note the Audience ID in the URL or in the column seen in the Audiences view.
4. Head back to Settings > Data Integrations and open the MailChimp Data Destination integration card.
5. Under the Meta Data section, paste in your Audience ID from step 3 and locate the respective MailChimp List ID to link to and click Add Mapping.
Repeat these steps for any additional lists that you want to send to your account. Just make sure your MailChimp plan supports list sizes or you may need to increase the limit
- You can have one MailChimp Account per Alpine IQ account.