How to use IBM App Connect with Mailchimp

Supported product and API versions

To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.

Connecting to Mailchimp

To connect App Connect to an Mailchimp account that you want App Connect to use, you need the following connection details:

Mailchimp connection fields:

To obtain the connection values for Mailchimp, see Obtaining connection values for Mailchimp.

To connect to a Mailchimp endpoint from the App Connect Designer Connect > Applications and APIs page (previously the Catalog page) for the first time, expand Mailchimp, then click Connect. For more information, see Managing accounts.

What should I consider first?

Before you use App Connect Designer with Mailchimp, take note of the following considerations:

• (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.

  For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.

• (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.
• Before you add some of the Mailchimp events or actions to your flow, make sure you have the following resources:
  • If you choose the New Member event to trigger your flow, you must specify the name of an existing Mailchimp list; that's the list that App Connect will monitor for new members.
  • If you add the Add member to list action to your flow, you must have set up already a list in Mailchimp so that App Connect can add a member to that list.
  • If you add the 'Create campaign' action to your flow, you must have an existing list of members for App Connect to send your campaign to.

Events and actions

Mailchimp events

These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.

Campaigns

New campaign

List members

New subscriber

Subscriber lists

New list

Messages

New message

Mailchimp actions

Your flow completes these actions on this application.

Campaign folders

Create campaign folder

Retrieve campaign folders

Delete campaign folders

Campaign reports

Retrieve campaign reports

Campaigns

Create campaign

Retrieve campaigns

Files

Create file

Retrieve files

Folders

Create folder

Retrieve folders

Delete folder

Interest categories

Create interest category

Retrieve interest categories

Interests

Create interest

Retrieve interests

Lists

Create list

Retrieve lists

Delete list

Members

Add subscriber to a list

Retrieve members

Recipient reports

Retrieve campaign recipient reports

Segments

Retrieve segments

Examples

Use templates to quickly create flows for Mailchimp

Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that complete actions on Mailchimp. For example, open the Templates gallery, and then search for Mailchimp.

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