We make our emails in Mailchimp (so they’re pretty and a bit more on brand without having to use a developer) and then just copy and paste the HTML into Vin65 to get the stats and data. I’m curious though if the auto populating tags work in MailChimp emails? We’d like to add a bit of personalization to our emails while keeping the look of Mailchimp emails.
Thanks in advance!
https://documentation.vin65.com/Contacts/Email-Documents/Auto-Populating-Data-In-An-Email
Negative. They appear to be different.
You can take a mailchimp template’s code, put it in Vin65, but you’d have to adjust/add/delete autopopulating tags. Also test to make sure any adjustments it makes with regards to CSS will carry over.
This tool might help: http://templates.mailchimp.com/resources/inline-css/
Basically none of the field names for autopopulating will match by default. Things like “view in a browser”, “Unsubscribe”, important footer info, etc. all needs to be looked at.
You could make one mailchimp template, do the work to move it over, and from then on have it be a Vin65 template.
Sorry if this wasn’t helpful.
Basically I want to use the Vin65 tags in the copy and pasted Mailchimp emails in the Vin65 email system…mostly I’m curious if there is anything in the HTML of mailchimp emails that would prevent the Vin65 tags from working properly…
Easy enough to test yourself… Put the mailchimp html with tags into your order confirmation email and place an order.
You just have to format the tags in the way that Vin65 wants them. A) Make sure that the tags you want to use are actually available within the given email (if a system email, for example). B) take note of the exact syntax C) Put in the auto-populating tags in Vin65.
Vin65 looks for |FNAME| becomes //FirstName//, etc. etc. I mean, there’s nothing in the HTML of Mailchimp that will prevent you from doing this other than the naming/syntax of these variables is not at all a match. Hope that helps.
Thanks! That helps!