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On the next screen, complete the signup wizard by entering a password, your organization name and organization phone number, then select the checkbox for the agreement (read the "Terms & Conditions" and the "Mail Terms of service") then click the "Get Started" button to create the account.

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NOTE: The default list after creating your trial account in Constant Contact is"General Interest". you can edit are add additional lists from the contact page.

 

When you ready to integrate your Constant Contact with your UltraCart account navigate to:

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Step 2

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Next, enter your Constant Contact Username and Password into the UltraCart fields. (You will also have an option checkbox for "Always Send Billing Address".)

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 Names" (One per line). 
                                         
At this point you can simple click the "save" button at the bottom of the page and you're done!

What about Step 4?

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After logging into your account, click the "Let's go" button then complete the 4 step wizard:

  1. What's your Industry?
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  2. What's your marketing goal?
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  3. Do you already have a list of email contacts?
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  4. Do you already have a website?
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  5. Scroll down and then click the "Go To Your Account" button:
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  6. After creating your account, you may be prompted to log in again to complete the linking process between Constant Contact and UltraCart. Upon logging in again, you will be prompted with a dialog window "Allow Access?" Choose Allow.
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  7. Upon clicking the "Allow" access button, you'll be returned to the UltraCart configuration page.
    Here you'll assign the list to which customers will be assign to upon making a purchasse:
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    Click the save button after selecting the Constant Contact List.


NOTE: The default list after creating your trial account in Constant Contact is"General Interest". you can edit are add additional lists from the contact page.


Item Level List Assignment Options

For more advanced integration, 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 Constant Contact API, where you can enter the listsID(s) that the customer should be subscribed to upon purchasing the item.

Via Item Editor


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Navigate:  Main Menu → Items → Item Management → Edit item → Other (tab) → Third Party Email Marketing 

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Please Note: IF you assigned the list in the UltraCart Constant Contact configuration page, you do not need to configure the list here.
(Normally,  you'll have additional constant contact lists that you'll be assigning to specific items.)

Logging of transmission between UltraCart and Constant Contact:

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At the bottom of the Constant Contact configuration page is a log button which will provide details of the transmissions of the customer mailing list subscriptions to Constant Contact. If you believe there is a problem with the subscriptions, this will be the first place to go to investigation the subscription activity. 


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