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emarienborg
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January 5, 2015 at 6:49 am
Hi!
I’m considering purchasing the MailChimp addon, but first I need to find out if the addon can do what I want.
On the site I’m working on there are several independent events each month. Both before and after the events, there might be a need to email the participants.
So, what I would like the addon to do, is to add all attendees to mailchimp, and somehow make me able to email the participants of each event separately.
Having to create a new list or group in Mailchimp for every event is not an option – I would like as much as possible done automatically.
Is the MailChimp addon capable of doing this, or would it be possible for me to adjust it to do this?
All the best,
Eivind
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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January 5, 2015 at 7:16 am
Hi Eivind,
The MailChimp integration will not automatically create a list in MailChimp for you.
The list is selected for an event through the event editor or you can set it to not add attendees/registrants to an event.
Event Espresso also has a bulk email feature that is separate from MailChimp. It can be used to send an email to all attendees/registrants for a specific event.
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Lorenzo
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emarienborg
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January 7, 2015 at 2:04 am
Hi, thanks for your reply!
The bulk email feature is okay to send emails. The problem is that we need an archive of sent emails, to see what we’ve sent, and to who. Do you know if that is possible in the bulk email feature?
Eivind
🙂
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Dean
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January 7, 2015 at 4:00 am
Hi,
No the bulk email system doesn’t have that type of feature.
Personally I think MailChimp is the way forward: it will require manually making a list for each event but will allow you to track a lot more data.
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emarienborg
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January 7, 2015 at 1:18 pm
How are emails sent from Event Espresso? Is there a function or filter I can hook into or modify to make the system send certain emails in CC to a specified address?
At most we do 5-6 events every month, with 10-30 participants. Leaving the WordPress admin pages to setup lists and groups in Mailchimp for each event is not an option.
I was thinking, however, that if I created a list called something like “Events”, each event could (automatically) be made a subgroup of that list. As of now that also requires us to leave WordPress, but perhaps such a feature is easier to implement than automatic creation of lists? We’re using a Graivty Forms / Groups cluster of plugins that automatically creates groups on our newsletter Mailchimp list, so I know it’s possible, at least.
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Sidney Harrell
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January 9, 2015 at 12:16 pm
You really want to use a service such as Mandrill (https://mandrill.com/) which is free for the volume of emails that you are talking about. It will keep records of all the emails sent, and I’m sure you can use it to set up the type of filtering you are talking about. You set it as your smtp mail server, so you would use a WP plugin to send all outgoing mail from WP to Mandrill’s smtp server.
As far as automatically generating a Mailchimp list for each event, that is probably something that is possible. However, it is not something that was written into the EE3 MailChimp add-on. Since all of our current development efforts are focused on EE4 going forward, unless it is a critical EE3 bug, we cannot spare the developer man-hours to devote to adding new features into EE3 or any of it’s add-ons.
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