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erika@pro-train.org
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March 8, 2022 at 12:24 pm
Hi there,
we have been using EE4 for 5 years and are happy about it’s ease of use. We would like to integrate the email addresses of our event registrants into our constant contact email marketing system.
I noticed that you offer the “MailChimp Integration” add-on but couldn’t locate an equivalent for CC. Do you have anything available to help us do that?
Thanks . . . E.
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Tony
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March 9, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Hi there,
Unfortunately, we do not currently have a direct Constant Contact integration add-on at this time.
There is an integration available for WPFusion which then integrates with Constant Contact (amongst many other platforms):
https://wpfusion.com/
https://wpfusion.com/documentation/events/event-espresso/
Will that work for you?
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erika@pro-train.org
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March 16, 2022 at 4:22 pm
Hello
I have to say that is disappointing! It’s been almost 3 years since I asked that very same question but I am receiving the same answer. I know constant contact is VERY popular, how come you guys don’t develop a plugin for it?
But until you guys will offer the plugin we will just have to make do with what’s available. So what I have done in the past I exported the registrants using the “All registrants CSV report” and then manually import that into CC. But now I have a new problem:
When I click the button to create the CSV report the system works on making the report BUT it doesn’t tell me where it will save it nor what the file will be called. Do you have any idea where I can find that report on my computer?
Thanks . . . Erika.
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Tony
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March 17, 2022 at 5:18 am
I have to say that is disappointing! It’s been almost 3 years since I asked that very same question but I am receiving the same answer. I know constant contact is VERY popular, how come you guys don’t develop a plugin for it?
I can understand the disappointment and there are a few reasons we haven’t developed an add-on for constant contact.
Demand for a constant contact integration is not all that high with our users, we track requests for it and the current number stands at 10, as you can imagine we have to prioritize our development time on features with higher numbers of requests. To put that into perspective we’ve been heavily focused on the recurring events manager which is currently ~120 requests although we stopped actively counting requests when we started working on it. With the recurring events manager come changes required within EE4 core to accommodate (lots of changes to how the event editor works) so that’s also been included because it was necessary.
So low demand for a CC integration with much higher demand for recurring events etc is part of it.
WordPress forced changes within core which forced us to change gears and focus on changes required within EE4 core to accommodate, again forces us into work on areas we didn’t plan to at the time.
Full integration with CC takes a fair amount of planning and learning the API for their service, and obviously that’s possible but it takes a significant amount of development time, planning, wireframing, discussions, learning, development, testing and support for an additional add-on like that. That would then meet the demand for roughly 10 users currently.
Just to clarify here, I’m not saying we wont develop an integration for it at some point, but just wanted to provide some additional perspective on a popular plugin when compared to the demand from our users 🙂
When I click the button to create the CSV report the system works on making the report BUT it doesn’t tell me where it will save it nor what the file will be called. Do you have any idea where I can find that report on my computer?
Does it just output a bunch of text onto the page or do nothing at all?
Generally, it would just save wherever your browser is set to download all files, which browser are you using?
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erika@pro-train.org
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March 17, 2022 at 10:54 am
Hello Tony
I completely understand your reasoning for not having gotten around to developing the CC plugin yet. No worries, we can work around it.
Regarding the Registrant CSV Report, I would like to thank you so much for asking me about the browser we are using. We are generally using Brave and its working well most of the time; but this is one of the instances that it didn’t work. When I tried generating the CSV report in Firefox it worked just fine. Duh … I should have thought about that earlier but … So, many thanks for giving my brain a push start. :):):)
We are all good for now and let you go so you can help others . . . smile, Erika.
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