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Mailchimp

Mailchimp is a powerful SaaS tool for managing e-mail lists, subscriptions and lots more. This plugin enables you to add customers to different lists for targetting purposes based on the actions they take within the platform, e.g creating their first server or deploying their first blueprint.

Use Cases/Scenarios

  • Context specific e-mails to customers based on what they have or have not achieved on the platform, e.g logged in, created their first server etc.
  • Different e-mail updates or notifications based on which locations they are using (e.g outage notifications, price changes)
  • Different e-mail updates or notifications based on what billing plan they are using (e.g upgrade offers, price changes)
  • Different e-mail updates or notifications based on what operating system images or application templates they are using (e.g security updates, new release notifications)
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To Activate the Plugin

  1. Download from the link above [right click, save as].
  2. Install via the Admin Control Panel of your Flexiant Install, instructions for this are available from here
  3. If you haven’t already done so, register with Mailchimp here.
  4. Get your API key by following the instructions here here
  5. Add the following information as Keys:
Key Type Resource Key Name Value
Billing Entity Key Billing Entity MAILCHIMP_TOKEN [Your MAILCHIMP API Token]
Billing Entity Key Billing Entity MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID [List ID of the MailChimp Subscription List]

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