Mailchimp

Introduction

Didomi allows you to update your Mailchimp contact attributes with the preferences collected through your preference management platform (PMP).

Implementation

Connection

Didomi connects to Mailchimp on your behalf through API calls using an API key and a server name:

• To get your Mailchimp API key follow the steps described in this documentation.

• Your server URL of your Mailchimp account: https://<server_name>.admin.mailchimp.com/

Your audience_id is also required. It is the id of your Mailchimp Audience where all the contact creations and updates will be done by Didomi. To find your audience id, in your Mailchimp account, navigte to Audience → Manage audience → Settings → Audience name and default → Audience ID

Therefore, every time preferences are collected using the Didomi Platform, it triggers the update of your Mailchimp contact property. You can use the Didomi user's property organization_user_id to identify and link your contacts on both platforms.

Options

• Upsert mode: You can choose allowing Didomi to create contacts in Mailchimp, by setting upsert_mode to true. Otherwise, when a consent is collected but the organization_user_id value does not match with any contact in Mailchimp, the consent update will not be propagated to Mailchimp.

• Bidirectional flow: Please note that the bidirectional flow is not supported at the moment.

Mapping

Didomi uses the entity contact of Mailchimp and sends the merge tag property when updating a contact. Hence consent events are mapped to the merge tag of Mailchimp contacts.

For the PMP preferences with boolean type, please choose type text while creating audience fields and merge tags: the value that will be transferred to the merge tag will be true or false.

Configuration

Didomi needs the following configuration items to set up the connection with Mailchimp:

Property	Description	Required
API Key	An API key from your Mailchimp account	Yes
URL	The server URL of your Mailchimp account	Yes
Audience id	The id of your audience where all contacts will be created or updated	Yes
Upsert mode	By setting upsert_mode to true you allow Didomi to create contacts in Mailchimp	No, Default value = false
Mappings	Mapping for properties between Didomi and Mailchimp	Yes

Example

{
    "type_id": "mailchimp",
    "authentication": {
        "api_key": "your_api_key",
	"url": "your_server_url"
    },
    "properties": {
        "audience_id": "your_audience_id"
    },
    "mappings": [
        {
	    "id": "EMAIL_NOTIFICATION",
	    "value": "consents_purposes_newsletter_enabled"
	}
    ],
    "upsert_mode": true
}

The configuration of the Mailchimp integration can be done in the Didomi Console. First please reach out to [email protected] to get the integration's premium feature activated.

Learn how to configure Didomi-Mailchimp integration in the Didomi Console in this help center documentation.