The following channel-specific fields are shown for Mailchimp Email channels:
•Re-subscribe contacts: functionally as per other email channels; however, email addresses that are resubscribed are not automatically opted in until having been resubscribed using Mailchimp's own resubscription form.
•Service Credentials section, containing the following:
o Service URL: this mandatory, editable text field can be a maximum of 1000 characters in length. It defaults to the value 'https://us7.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/’ and represents the API service URL used to connect to the Mailchimp service. Note that the 'us7' part of the URL corresponds to the data center to be used for the channel; e.g. if the last part of your Mailchimp API key is us7, all API endpoints for your account are available at https://us7.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/.
o Username: this mandatory text field can be a maximum of 100 characters in length, and allows you to specify the user name to be used when connecting to Mailchimp.
o API key: this mandatory, password-masked text field can be a maximum of 100 characters in length and allows you to specify the API key to be used when connecting to Mailchimp.
•Suppressions section, containing the following:
o Auto-suppress: as per Salesforce Marketing Cloud email channel.
o Custom suppression table: as per Salesforce Marketing Cloud email channel.
o Suppression table name: as per Salesforce Marketing Cloud email channel.
•Audience Settings section, containing a single property:
o Audience name: this optional property allows you to specify a list name from which emails will be sent when the channel is used. It is initially presented as a Choose list name button. It is enabled when the channel has been saved. Clicking the button displays a dialog. The dialog displays all campaign lists configured at the Mailchimp account. You can select a list name and click OK to confirm your choice. A Cancel button is also provided.
Having selected a list name, a Clear button is shown. Clicking it clears the selected list name.
Note that the term ‘List’ in this context is equivalent to Mailchimp’s usage of the term ‘Audience’.
•Miscellaneous section, containing the following:
o Remove footer: this checkbox, which is unchecked, allows you to specify that the footer be removed from email content at execution using the channel.
o Content templates shared folder: as per CheetahMail email channel.
The following properties are exposed at the Advanced tab:
•Enable trace: this checkbox is unchecked by default. It allows you to log API requests and corresponding replies from Mailchimp. If checked, on email execution, information messages containing Mailchimp Trace HTTP request and reply details are written to the RPI Server Log.
Note the following message, which is displayed when the property is checked:
•API call max. re-try: this integer property defaults to 10, and accepts a range of values from 5 to 60. It represents the number of retry attempts to be undertaken if a call to the provider's API fails.
•Move hashtags to end of URL: as per Salesforce Marketing Cloud email channel.
Note that Web Adapters are supported at the channel.