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isiemer
Member

One of the biggest features of MailChimp is "groups". Without groups you're required to create separate lists to segment customers which then have to be merged to remove duplicates. This can be very burdensome especially when you're dealing with a large amount of users. In our case we have 10k+ and each has a special customer type. If we send the wrong email to the wrong list or group than it can cause a rash of unsubscribes or complaints.

I guess what I'm getting at is, please please add group functionality to the Mailchimp plugin. I'm having to do really awful tasks and hacks to make it kinda work. It hasn't been updated since June and that was simply to update the API and remove bugs. This is the #1 reason we updated to developer and it's become this biggest headache. We would really appreciate a refresh.

Thanks

Posted 12 years ago on Friday October 14, 2011 | Permalink
David Smith
Member

Hi Zach,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll bring this up to the team and see what our plans are for adding support for this.

Posted 12 years ago on Friday October 14, 2011 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator

Hey Zach,

We're aware of the need/desire to have the group functionality in the MailChimp add-on. For the past while, our focus has been on several substantial feature enhancements to the core Gravity Forms itself. When we circle back to revise the MailChimp Add-On later this year we'll be adding support for groups.

Posted 12 years ago on Friday October 14, 2011 | Permalink
r3df
Member

I need groups and can't wait for an update so I modified the mailchimp plugin. I have basic "beta" support for groupings, non-hidden checkboxes only right now. Anyone interested in it?

I don't want to pastebin the code, as that would make it public, how should I post it?

Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 24, 2011 | Permalink
BIGLIFE
Member

Hey rickrrr. I'm interested as I would love to have group support. Currently I'm having to use multiple list and this sucks for obvious reasons. I'd be happy to give you my personal email or something so you don't have to post it publicly.

Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 24, 2011 | Permalink
BIGLIFE
Member

Kevin,
When you say later this year....do you mean by the start of 2012?

Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 24, 2011 | Permalink
r3df
Member

Hey biglife,

We may have to go via email, although I might put it on my site, password protected, and post the pass here. It's only one file, mailchimp.php, that has changes.

Do you have a test site? I don't think the code I wrote will break anything, but there are just too many variables in every install to be sure without a lot of testing, and the only site I've tested on is the one I wrote the mods for.

For what I've written so far, your groups need to be checkboxes and cannot be hidden.

Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday October 25, 2011 | Permalink
BIGLIFE
Member

OK, Great. let me know what you decide. I'm ready when you are.......and yes, I can test it to see it it breaks.

Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday October 25, 2011 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

Someone please post their email address and then the other can contact them off-site. Thank you.

Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 26, 2011 | Permalink
stewartrandall
Member

Hi all, just registering my keen interest to have groups supported in the Mailchimp add-on.

Thanks

Posted 12 years ago on Friday October 28, 2011 | Permalink
r3df
Member

Hi, Anyone who wants a copy of my patches for groups, please contact me at info /@/ r3df [dot] com

Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 31, 2011 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

Thanks for posting that rickrrr.

Posted 12 years ago on Monday October 31, 2011 | Permalink

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