Version: 1.0.2, by vbtise
Developer Last Online: Mar 2019
Category: Integration with vBulletin -
Version: 4.x.x
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Released: 09-04-2012
Last Update: 09-21-2012
Installs: 46
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Background
This mod is developed to integrate vBulletin with Mailchimp. Mailchimp is one of the popular email marketing platform. Which is also free for upto 2000 subscribers. For more information please visit their website (http://mailchimp.com/).
Installation
Download the latest version of the addon
Upload content from "UPLOAD" directory to your forum root
Go to AdminCP -> Plugin & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
Import product-kws_mailchimp.xml
Go to AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> vBtise Mail Chimp
Change settings to connect with your Mailchimp account
Configure Admin Options Configure admin options in admin end => settings => options => vBtise Mail Chimp
Option 1 => Turn mail chimp integration on/off
Option 2 => If this option is selected as YES, user will be subscribe to Mail chimp without his permission, otherwise in case of NO user will be send to mail chimp only when he will checked the Receive Email from Administrators option on registration page.
Option 3 => Enter Mailchimp API Key.
Option 4 => Enter Mail chimp Unique list id in which you want to subscribe
Configure Admin Options
After admin options configuration, go to admin end => User Profile Fields => User profile fields manager. here you can manage already created fields or create new one to configure with mail chimp. NOTE: To display fields in Manage Mailchimp Fields Page select ( Yes, at registration and profile updating) or ( No, but display at registration) in add/edit filed form => Field Required
After creating fields move on to admin end => Vbtise Mail Chimp => Manage Mailchimp Fields page
Enable fields with the same Merge tag in Mailchimp administration end
How to View Logs
admin end => vBtise Mail chimp => View Cron logs ( here you can see logs like total new added / updated records in Mail chimp List)
admin end => vBtise Mail chimp => Registraion Subscription error log ( list of users which are not successfully subscribed in mailchimp while registion )
Features Admin options
Enable or disable mail chimp integration
Subscribe user to forcefully or with permission
Option to target a particular mail chimp list
Configure Vbulletin and Mailchimp Fields (Merge tags )
Mailchimp Subscription There are two ways to add a user into mail chimp list.
When new user register?s in forum
Run cron job to sync Vbulletin users into mail chimp. ( this will pass all users to mail chimp api , with options to add new subscribers and update which already exists )
Two types of logs admin can view
Cron logs with summary of ( Total accounts added/updated or number of accounts having error while sync.)
Please help, it is pretty confusing to me how it works.
I integrated it as described above, forcefully=off.
Have radio buttons (yes and no) on profile and registration page.
OK, but what happend is this: When everything was setup right (I guessed) I ran the Scheduled task for vBulletinMailChimp. Took quite some time (1000 members) and ended in an MySQL error. But guessed that most of the mails we're sent. Pretty soon I got some MailChimp-Yippeee mails for new signups.
But I wondered what would happen when the scheduled task would run the next time. So half an hour later, I manually ran it again. And OOPS, I noticed that it starting to send out all (??) mails again. That's ofcourse not what I want, and especially not what my forummembers want
The sched.task is turned off now.
What can I expect that this plugin does?
And what happens with new forum registrations when the sched.task is turned off?
Hope for some extra info on this promising plugin ...
Thanks in advance!
I did come across that one too, but since it didn't mention anything on vB4.x I guessed it only supported vB3.
I think it works on vb4 as well.
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Have that same feeling, unfortunately. Especially since it seems pretty buggy to me.
A reaction by @vBtise would be highly appreciated.
I don't find it buggy, but there is one very important piece missing for me.
I need to have a radio button or checkbox that asks if the person would like to sign up to the newsletter or not. Right now this is done by checking "receive e-mails from admin". I need there to be a line in the forum signup that asks specifically:
"Do you want to receive our newsletter?" and then act accordingly.
I'm going to try the other plugin as it seems like it might be able to do that.
Will this plugin, or the new plugin integrate with the forums and blog to pull info from posted threads and blog's?
If it doesn't do this now or in the upcoming upgrade will be a main reason this will ever be successful with many vbulletin admin's. I noticed it currently shows only 24 downloads on the most popular vbulletin mod website.
I had installed this mod on my board only because of a promotion by MailChimp that gave 12,000 credits and then if you did something else you got another $3,000 credits and if it was all before a certain time you got another 5,000 credits.
After installing this plugin as the best I can remember to me it looked like it mainly allowed you to import your subscribers. There didn't appear to be much more about it. I went on MailChimp and registered an account and spent time trying to get use to it. I'll admit they have an extremely nice setup on MailChimp, it's just that it needs to work more with the our boards database with pulling down info from threads and such. Btw, that actually happens to be what landed me here again. I wanted to back track and see if MailChimp was working with our boards as I have mentioned. It doesn't seem that it does, and I'll apologize now if I'm wrong with anything I have posted here.
I've seen some vbulletin boards that have newsletter plugins that pull the data and images from their board. All they do is check off what they want sent to their subscribers, check off what sponsor banners and links are added. Very basic.
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12-11-2012, 06:55 PM
