Integrating with MailChimp

With MailChimp integration, you can sync the marketing lists you build in CloudRadial with MailChimp. To understand how this works, you'll need to understand how MailChimp handles "audiences".

An audience in MailChimp is a list of email addresses to which you can target emails. Audiences can be segmented using "tags". Tags are attributes assigned to an email address. When you send an email in MailChimp you can select the audience and a tag to limit sending to just certain contacts.

How to Set Up the Mailchimp Integration

CloudRadial will always synchronize with an audience titled "CloudRadial".

If this audience does not exist, it will be created. Depending on which plan you are on, you may be limited to just one audience. You will need to either rename an existing audience to "CloudRadial" or start with the free plan with new audience created. 

If you are having trouble syncing, the most likely problem is that your current plan does not allow you to create an additional audience.

To obtain your API key from MailChimp:

1. Click on your picture at the bottom-left and click "Profile".
2. On the Profile page, click on the "Extras" tab and choose "API keys".
3. On the API keys page, create an API key and copy it to the correct setting in CloudRadial.

For extra security, your MailChimp API key is kept in an Azure Key Vault in CloudRadial and is not stored in your database.

For more information on creating an API key MailChimp is available here: https://mailchimp.com/help/about-api-keys/

More information on creating audiences in MailChimp is available here: https://mailchimp.com/help/create-audience/

Troubleshooting MailChimp Connection Issues

If you're not seeing your MailChimp audience come in from CloudRadial, the most common issue is that there is an existing audience slot taking it's place.

This is especially common with free accounts, as they only allow one audience to be added - and they usually require you to set one up as part of their account start-up process.

Deleting this audience (or as many audiences as necessary) to free up a slot will fix the issue. You may need to re-build or re-sync the list to have it work.