Shopify has removed Mail Chimp from its app store in regards to customer data and both are blaming each other.
There are multiple alternative for customers to moving themself to new platform or use any existing app to connect with mailchimp.
This post was to help you as you move from MailChimp to Klaviyo. It is recommended that both platforms should not used at once other than during the interim period as you make the switch.
First, you'll need to obtain your MailChimp API key. You can get your MailChimp API key by logging into MailChimp, clicking your account name in the upper left, then navigating to Account > Extras > API keys.
On the API key page, create a new API key and copy it. The field you'll need will be a long string of letters and numbers.
Once you've obtained your API key from MailChimp, go into the Integrations tab of your Klaviyo account. Here, find MailChimp on the All Integrations list. Click Add Integration and enter your API key.
Klaviyo will sync a MailChimp Received Email event every time someone successfully receives an email sent from MailChimp (meaning the email was delivered to their inbox).
The MailChimp Opened Email metric will track email open events synced from MailChimp.
The MailChimp Clicked Email metric will track email click events synced from MailChimp. To segment this metric further, and see which contacts clicked which specific URLs in your emails, click on the Clicked Email metric in your Metrics tab and then use the advanced filters option to filter by URL.
MailChimp metrics are synced from campaigns that took place in the last 90 days. If a campaign is still sending, we will not sync the following metics; these metrics will only sync for campaigns that are finished sending.
From MailChimp, Klaviyo pulls in the following data:
If you choose to sync existing lists from MailChimp to Klaviyo, you can choose to either sync all of your lists or only specific lists.
If you choose to sync only specific lists AND you enable the option "Collect open and click data for MailChimp campaigns," all contacts in your MailChimp account will be imported into Klaviyo -- regardless of whether or not they're in the specific lists you've chosen to sync. So, while syncing specific lists will recreate them in Klaviyo, it will not necessarily limit the number of contacts imported from MailChimp.
Keep in mind that only names and email addresses will sync; to migrate over custom properties that may be attached to contact profiles in MailChimp, see below.
If you delete people in MailChimp, they will not be deleted in Klaviyo. However, if someone is added to a MailChimp list, they'll be added to Klaviyo within an hour. We receive historical data from MailChimp from the last 90 days; if you are syncing a large number of contacts from MailChimp, this may differ.
The integration brings data over every 30 minutes for lists. For campaigns, it pulls data every 15 minutes on the first day and checks less frequently as time passes.
If you choose to sync existing subscriber lists into Klaviyo through the Klaviyo MailChimp integration, any custom properties attached to these contacts in MailChimp will not automatically flow into Klaviyo.
The one exception to this is contacts' MailChimp Ratings. These will be added to contact profiles automatically as custom properties. See below for more information on MailChimp Ratings.
If you want to preserve and migrate your own custom properties when you switch over to Klaviyo, you will need to manually import them to ensure that the correct properties are appended to their contact profiles in Klaviyo. To do this, follow this guide.
Klaviyo pulls in contacts' "MailChimp Ratings," which rate a contact's level of engagement on a scale of 1-5 stars. A contact with 5 stars is considered highly engaged, while a contact with only 1 star is considered unengaged.
To avoid encountering deliverability issues, segment your contacts from MailChimp based on their MailChimp Rating and previous MailChimp engagement to ensure that you are sending a group of contacts that will open, click, and otherwise engage with your emails. You can do this by building a segment where the conditions are:
If you send weekly or monthly to the segment, lengthen 30 days to 90 days to be more inclusive.
Also, read - Migrate Email Templates from MailChimp to Klaviyo
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