I have had a quick look and cant find anything. Does anyone know of a module or hook so that any new customers who create an account, or any customers that update their details, have to double opt in to marketing type newsletters? Not just double enter their email address, but actually have to receive an email and click the subscribe link in that email before they are added to any marketing list.
We use Mailchimp and update our subscribers emails into Mailchimp every week, but would like to make sure that customers do actually want to start receiving this type of marketing.
If not it may be a case of speaking to any of the certified developers, unless its something that should be in core, which I doubt.
Email marketing newsletter double opt in for subscriber
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Re: Email marketing newsletter double opt in for subscriber
https://mailchimp.com/help/about-double-opt-in/
MailChimp supports this if you integrate it with the registration form directly (probably a certified developer thing). Or you might consider replacing your current integration with something that just generates a link in the Welcome email. I.e. currently, you update subscribers weekly. Instead, consider just putting the MailChimp sign-up link in the Welcome email if they request subscription. That also may be a certified developer thing, but I think it would be a better integration. Because it changes your existing process to operate more quickly.
MailChimp supports this if you integrate it with the registration form directly (probably a certified developer thing). Or you might consider replacing your current integration with something that just generates a link in the Welcome email. I.e. currently, you update subscribers weekly. Instead, consider just putting the MailChimp sign-up link in the Welcome email if they request subscription. That also may be a certified developer thing, but I think it would be a better integration. Because it changes your existing process to operate more quickly.
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Re: Email marketing newsletter double opt in for subscriber
@ecartz Thanks for that. It may be worth me contacting a developer to see what they can come up with.ecartz wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:29 pm https://mailchimp.com/help/about-double-opt-in/
MailChimp supports this if you integrate it with the registration form directly (probably a certified developer thing). Or you might consider replacing your current integration with something that just generates a link in the Welcome email. I.e. currently, you update subscribers weekly. Instead, consider just putting the MailChimp sign-up link in the Welcome email if they request subscription. That also may be a certified developer thing, but I think it would be a better integration. Because it changes your existing process to operate more quickly.
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Re: Email marketing newsletter double opt in for subscriber
Hi,
for the still on 1.0.8.0 store I tried to write a hook, which tries (and seems to do) the follwing via mailchimps apifunctions:
It first requests if the customer has subscribed or not at mailchimp and then updates the customers_newsletter field in customers table accordingly if the page account_newsletters.php is called, and also subscribes/unsubscribes at mailchimp if the customer is opting in or out on account_newsletters.php.
It also subscribes at mailchimp on account creation.
Mailchimp then sends an additional request per email to confirm subscription.
As I consider myself still being one of the trial and error tribe I won't post it here, but would hand it over to someone more skilled, for further development and adaption to newer phoenix versions. If it could be a free addon then even better.
Kind regards
Christoph
for the still on 1.0.8.0 store I tried to write a hook, which tries (and seems to do) the follwing via mailchimps apifunctions:
It first requests if the customer has subscribed or not at mailchimp and then updates the customers_newsletter field in customers table accordingly if the page account_newsletters.php is called, and also subscribes/unsubscribes at mailchimp if the customer is opting in or out on account_newsletters.php.
It also subscribes at mailchimp on account creation.
Mailchimp then sends an additional request per email to confirm subscription.
As I consider myself still being one of the trial and error tribe I won't post it here, but would hand it over to someone more skilled, for further development and adaption to newer phoenix versions. If it could be a free addon then even better.
Kind regards
Christoph