Mailchimp
A powerful two-way synchronisation between your Donorfy constituents and your Mailchimp audience. See Campaign interactions on Constituent timelines and map Donorfy Tags to Mailchimp Tags and Groups and create supporter automated journies from your Web Widgets.
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What does the Donorfy to Mailchimp sync do?
The sync to MailChimp from Donorfy work as follows: Constituent Details The following data from Donorfy is used when updating MailChimp: Email address Last Name First Name (last name and first name are held in MailChimp merge fields). Only one ...
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Mailchimp integration overview
You can click through a short explainer presentation here or a 40 minute deep-dive video here: The link between Donorfy and Mailchimp allows you to Send constituents and optionally information about their tags and communication purposes from Don...
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Moving to one Audience (List) in Mailchimp
Within your Mailchimp account you can have many Mailchimp Audiences (formerly Lists). For example, you may have 3 audiences: those who have subscribed to the Newsletter those who want to hear about Volunteering opportunities those who want to hea...
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How to link Donorfy and Mailchimp
NOTE: the integration uses Mailchimp's API. Please check their website for availability of the API for your organisation. It may not be available on certain price plans - this beyond Donorfy's control. Keep Donorfy and your Mailchimp audiences (fo...
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Step 1: Mailchimp integration - Configuration settings
To establish the link between Donorfy and Mailchimp you will firstly need to generate a Mailchimp API key. To generate your Mailchimp API key, sign in to your Mailchimp account. Click on the account options under your sign in name and select A...
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Step 2: Mailchimp integration - Linking your audience to Donorfy
Once you have connected Mailchimp to Donorfy - see this article - you will now be able to choose which Mailchimp audiences (previously known as lists) you want to link Donorfy, as shown below. From within Integrations > Mailchimp > Settings P...
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Step 3: Updating Donorfy from Mailchimp
You can link Mailchimp to Donorfy so that when someone... Subscribes to a Mailchimp audience (formerly list), or Changes their preferences in Mailchimp, or Unsubscribes from a Mailchimp audience ... the Details in Donorfy are updated - the upd...
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Step 4: Linking a Mailchimp Campaign to a Donorfy Campaign
Link a Donorfy Campaign to a Mailchimp Campaign This allows you to see analytics from your Mailchimp alongside the analytics for the overall campaign include Mailchimp activity (open/clicks/unsubscribes) on constituents' timelines To link the c...
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Step 5: Updating Mailchimp from Donorfy
You can update a Mailchimp audience (formerly list) from one or more Constituent Lists - to do this you must either be an administrator in Donorfy or have 'Can Update Mailchimp' permission allowed under Data lists - see this article for more infor...
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Sending only opted out data to your MailChimp Audience
The main List that you use to sync data from Donorfy to MailChimp may have been set up to only include those emails that have opted in (email = Yes (Green) ), so, how do unsubscribe those that have opted out in Donorfy in MailChimp? There are two...
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Viewing a constituent's Mailchimp Profile from within the Donorfy Constituent Profile
View Details of Mailchimp Audiences a Constituent is Subscribed to If an email address in the constituent's profile is subscribed to a Mailchimp audience an icon is shown to the right of the email address When you click on the icon information a...
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Viewing Mailchimp activity in a Constituent's Timeline
Once you have linked Donorfy to Mailchimp (see this article) and linked your Donorfy Campaigns to a corresponding Mailchimp Campaign (see this article), you will be able to view the activity on a Constituent's Timeline. The timeline will provide a...
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Initiating a Mailchimp supporter journey sequence from Donorfy
Mailchimp supports a special campaign type, marketing automation, that allows a sequence of emails to a Mailchimp audience (formerly list) member to be triggered by different types of event and activity. Using Donorfy's Mailchimp integration, ther...
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Mailchimp sync - Dealing with Archived and Deceased Records
There will inevitably become a time when a record that has been featuring on your main Constituent List that is being used to sync to Mailchimp is archived for one reason or another or the constituent is now deceased. If you just archive the reco...
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Mailchimp GDPR features and Donorfy
Mailchimp has a feature for the setting of marketing permissions - this feature is enabled at Audience (formerly List) level and can be included on some subscriber forms, enabling the subscriber to opt into and out of the various permissions that ...
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FAQs
Can we create and send Mailchimp email campaigns from Donorfy? Traditional bulk email campaigns have to be created and sent in Mailchimp. The Donorfy-Mailchimp integration is mainly about keeping the Mailchimp Audience and Donorfy in sync. However...
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Mailchimp Troubleshooting
My list is syncing the same constituents each time, but non have any changes made recently This may be due to an inconsistency in the data on their profile. The constituent first name, surname or email address may have a trailing space, or the ema...
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Do you have a custom integration with Mailchimp?
If you have developed your own custom integrations with Mailchimp you need to be aware of how they might interact with Donorfy. The integration between Donorfy and Mailchimp uses 2 pieces of Mailchimp technology API - the API is used by Donorfy ...
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