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More than 4 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. Whether you're self-employed, you manage projects for clients, or you work for a Fortune 500 company, MailChimp has features and integrations that will suit your email-marketing needs. Create signup forms that match your brand's look and feel, and send your subscribers product updates, event invitations, announcements, or editorial content. Use our reports to improve your campaigns and learn more about your subscribers. Best of all? MailChimp is free for lists of up to 2,000 subscribers.

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Integrating MailChimp into your UltraCart account is quick and easy.

Integration with MailChimp takes only a few minutes and is simple as 1-2-3!

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Step 1

If you don't already have a MailChimp account, start here.

When you ready to integrate your MailChimp with your UltraCart account, navigate from the UltraCart Main Menu to Marketing  then scroll down and click on MailChimp.

Step 2

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Configure your credentials:  Click here to obtain your api here.

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(2) API Version: Choose 1.3 by default and 2.0 if you are implementing MailChimps E-COMMERCE 360 service. (see step 5 below for more)

Step 3

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If you would like to automatically subscribe customers to one or more lists when they make their purchase, simple enter the list names into the "List Unique Ids" (One per line).

Help finding your ListID(s): http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-find-my-list-id/

Once you save your credentials, UltraCart will display a list of your MailChimp lists to subscribe customers to.



 What about Step 4?

For more advanced users you can choose to specify on a buy link which list they should be added to upon completion of the payment for their order. In addition to the examples displayed here for adding list parameters into the buy link URL's of your items, you can accomplish the same thing by editing an item, then navigating to the "other" tab of the item editor and then scrolling down to the "Marketing" section that appears once you have configured your MailChimp API, where you can enter the listsID(s) that the customer should be subscribed to upon purchasing the item.

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You'll also be deploying a tracking script into your pages (provided by MailChimp).
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Select the "Send all order to 360" checkbox to send order information from all transactions, not just those resulting from a Mailchimp campaign, back to your Mailchimp lists.

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