About Constant Contact:

Constant Contact®, Inc. wrote the book on Engagement Marketing™ — the new marketing success formula that helps small organizations create and grow customer relationships in today's socially connected world. Through its unique combination of online marketing tools and free personalized coaching, Constant Contact helps small businesses, associations, and nonprofits connect and engage with their next great customer, client, or member. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact has long championed the needs of small organizations, providing them with an easy and affordable way to create and build successful, lasting customer relationships.

Main Menu → Operations → Marketing → 3rd Party Email → Constant Contact

Integrating Constant Contact into your UltraCart account is quick and easy.

Integration with Constant Contact takes only a few minutes.

Step 1

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

To start the free trial, enter your First Name, Last Name, Email Adress, then click "Try It Free" button.

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.

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:

Main Menu → Operations → Marketing → 3rd Party Email (tab) → Constant Contact

Step 2

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

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?

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

Logging of transmission between UltraCart and Constant Contact:

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.

Helpful links

Constant Contact Resource Center