Settings

The following settings are available in the plugin configuration and are currently divided into four sections:

Setup

1. API Key - Your API key from MailChimp. You can find this under Account -> Extras -> API Keys
2. List - MailChimp's eCommerce features are linked to a normal MailChimp list. We suggest using a new list as your eCommerce list. To do this, create a new list in MailChimp and select this list in the drop-down field of the plugin settings.

Store

Once the setup is complete, the next step is to create the store in MailChimp. To do this, fill in the following fields and click on the button to create the store.

1. Store ID - Your store is listed under a store ID in MailChimp. Enter your own store ID here - this can be called “myStore” or something similar, for example, and should not have been used before and should not contain any special characters.

2. Store currency code - Which currency code is used in your store? e.g. “EUR”

3. Store Address - This is the physical address (street and house number) where your store is registered.

4. Store City - The city where your store is located.

5. Store ZIP Code - The ZIP code where your store is located.

6. Store country - The country in which your store is located.

7. Store country code - The country code corresponding to the country in which your store is located. e.g. “US”

8. Store company - Your company that is responsible for the store.

9. Store Domain - The domain under which your store can be accessed on the Internet. e.g. https://meinshop.de

10. Store Email - The email address to be used for contact purposes. e.g. kontakt@meinshop.de

11. Store Phone - The phone number to be used for contact purposes.

12. Store Locale - The locale relevant to your shop. e.g. “en-US”

13. Store Time Zone: The time zone relevant to your shop. e.g. “Germany\Berlin”.

Once the store has been created in Mailchimp, the display will look like this:

Options

Once the store has been successfully created in MailChimp, this will be clearly indicated in the display. You can then edit the synchronization options.

1. Synchronize quick orderers? - In Shopware, it is possible for customers not to have a proper customer account - these customers are quick orderers. Decide whether quick orderers should also be synchronized.

2. Subscriber status - Decide whether your customers should be added as subscribers. If the customer is added as a subscriber, they can be used for campaign targeting. If not, the customer's email address can be used for transactional emails. Further information can be found here (Infolink) and in the “Good to know” chapter.

3. Synchronize sub-items? - In some Shopware installations, there are items that are added to the shopping cart with a value of $0 (e.g., for parts list plugins). Decide whether these sub-items of an item should also be transferred to MailChimp.

4. Date limit - In some cases, it makes sense to start automatic synchronization only from a certain date (see Things to know). The date from which orders and customers are to be synchronized can be conveniently selected here. If this option is left blank, all customers and orders will be synchronized.

5. Relevant status of an order - This option determines what the current order status of an order must be in order for the order to be synchronized. Multiple order statuses can be selected here.

6. Log storage period - Maximum number of days that specifies how long log entries are stored. Default: 30 days.

7. Transfer temporary shopping carts? - Determines whether temporary shopping carts should be transferred to MailChimp.