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Chimpegration View gives RE users a full degree view if a supporter journey. It is available in NXT and for self-hosted users.

The service has also been so responsive and thorough: there was an issue with the API Code that was fixed in a couple of hours. I highly recommend Chimpegration. We are very excited to be able to work with Chimpegration. Developing our own integration was not a prospect that we even considered because of the time and cost that would be involved.

We are expecting that Chimpegration will be a very cost effective solution for us. Zeidman Development have been very responsive to our needs and helpful through the testing phase. Skip to content. Chimpegration Professional draws on the power of database view to allow you to Export your email lists together with merge variables, tags and groups directly into Mailchimp.

Manage your unsubscribes, bounces and add actions to all constituents emailed in each campaign. Include open and click data too. Import new subscribers directly from a Mailchimp audience. Remove subscribers from an audience in bulk, based on a query.

Synchronise Mailchimp groups with constituent attributes, constituent codes, solicit codes or consent records. Export a query of constituents directly onto a Mailchimp automation workflow. Get Started. Hosted by Blackbaud. To start your Chimpegration Pro trial simply activate it in the plug-ins area using your Zeidzone login details. Please register or login to ZeidZone to download the product. What is Chimpegration?

Executive Overview. Chimpegration Pro Demo. Chimpegration Cloud Demo. Chimpegration Pro Features. Tracking Opens and Clicks Record the date the user first opened your email and any links they clicked on within your campaign. Scheduled and Real Time Processes Chimpegration Cloud gives you the option to set up your processes to run automatically, campaign results such as unsubscribes and opens and clicks; and imports can be run on a scheduled or realtime basis, and you can schedule your exports from NXT to Mailchimp too!

Tags Add tags during export and remove them in bulk based on a query too. Groups You can match Mailchimp Groups to a constituent attribute, cons code, solicit code or consent record, making it easier to create accurate segments and manage preferences across both RE and Mailchimp.

Relationships Chimpegration Pro users can work with non-constituent relationship records; exporting data, managing campaign results and synchronizing both ways between RE and Mailchimp. Contact us for further details. Alicia Cybulski, Database Specialist. Robert Badley, Manager, Donor Database. Next Next project: Audit Trail. Related products. Audit Trail Cloud. We realise that you do not care who is to blame for issues with Chimpegration as long as the application works.

We understand that and, as ever, strive to release fixes to issues as soon as we are told about them. After much work we hope that we have reached a point where this latest version of Chimpegration is now more stable than ever. We continue to work on the plug-in to ensure it remains as useful as possible in integrating these two great applications. What is the difference between Chimpegration and Online Express?

We are big Blackbaud fans and love much of what Blackbaud produces. Online Express is no exception. The fact that there is one application that can ask for donations, handle event registrations, manage memberships as well as allowing you to send out targeted and personalised emails is amazing. Continue reading What is the difference between Chimpegration and Online Express?

The ground-breaking news is that after at least 7 years waiting in the wings, we are able to release one of our products on the Blackbaud hosted environment. Finally I can updated my stock phrase. Unlike some integration applications it takes data directly from the source. There is no need for any manual manipulation along the way. Azadi Sheridan, independent fundraising data expert, RE guru and former Blackbaud senior manager said,.

What does this mean for the future? One of the issues that many of the prospective clients faced and even our existing clients was whether they should invest in technology that is not available to them on NXT. They would put off a purchase or renewal decision because they wanted to wait and see what NXT would hold.

RE7 has so much functionality but NXT looks amazing. Having the best of both worlds is certainly a selling point for any organisation. So now you have heard all about it why not request a demo of Chimpegration. Ready to take the plunge? Request a trial of Chimpegration on hosted. If you are not hosted and have questions please get in contact too. Those who are not hosted by Blackbaud can also download and trial the Pro version of Chimpegration now from our Chimpegration page. Zeidman Development on LinkedIn.

Zeidman Development on Facebook. We are really excited about this. At Zeidman Development we are big fans of MailChimp. MailChimp have now hired somebody to help non-profits make better use of MailChimp. Their latest blog post explains how to use merge variables in MailChimp. The article explains how you use the corresponding functionality in MailChimp. What is really good is that if you set up merge variables in MailChimp you can easily link those variable to query output in Chimpegration.

In the free version you are able to export your data to MailChimp and in the Pro version you can synchronize the data sets. That means you can use MailChimp merge variables as an online data source. Sophisticated, flexible integration in one product. It shows which emails they received, what they opened and which links they clicked on. However there is no way currently in Chimpegration to segment based on this activity. Chimpegration gives you a view of the MailChimp activity.

However, now MailChimp have released a new product Goooal. You can use Goooal in combination with your existing MailChimp lists to help segment your constituents. Whenever a person clicks on a link you can setup Gooal to put that constituent into a specific segment. Once they are in a segment you can target them based on their previous visits. If your newsletter has links to information on different areas of your cause this is a perfect way to target those constituents who are interested.

However we also develop a lot for third party applications directly. Most recently we released Chimpegration but there have been many others that integrate many different areas of the application. With these clients the important point is not so much as to match one set of requirements exactly but to match as many requirements exactly!

I have yet to come across two organisations that have set up RE the same way. Sometimes the differences are small but sometimes they are very large. Not only are phones and emails stored in the same location but you can store them according to address type too.

How does this match up with a third party web application that uses email address as a primary key? They may have one field for home phone, one for mobile and possibly one other. How do you get that tie in with the possibility of any combination of phone and email types?

I have seen a whole plethora of regular phone types e. Those are just the ones I can think of as I write this. And of course each of these could have a number after them. What techniques do we use to overcome these issues? When we are working with a third party developer directly it is often in their interest to develop the configuration piece.

This saves them a lot of development cost. This means that we simply say to them if you want us to update a phone number you need to tell us which type it is. Likewise when we supply that piece of data, we also send the phone type too.

Another solution is to build a configuration part to the application. This is what we did with Chimpegration. The last solution is the least desirable. This is clearly the simplest and cheapest but unless you have a lot of sway over the organisations that you are selling to it is unlikely that you are going to get many buyers. Where you are collecting business details, should these be added to an organisation or to a business address on the constituent record?

Should you create a new constituent for the organisation? How can you be sure that it does not already exist in the system but under a slightly different name. One solution is to allow the end user to review the matches that have been made but this again adds to the development cost.

It could also be prohibitive if the volume of data you are bringing in is large. One application that we worked with had an anniversary date. There is no such field in RE.

We gave the end user the option to ignore the field, store it has the spouse relationship from date or store it as an attribute. What happens if one organisation makes a field mandatory? When I work with an organisation directly I will ask them what mandatory fields they have set up on their system. If, as part of the process, I have to create a new constituent then I will ask them to give me a default value for that field.

For a generic solution this has to be worked into the application configuration. You can see much of this in action in Chimpegration where we account for mandatory fields and different combinations of phone types and emails. Check out the synchronisation screencast for a glimpse of this in action.

So all said and done is this type of solution to be avoided? Absolutely not! It is not cheap because of the extra work involved in making the application work for all types of organisations.

Update 15th Dec I should clarify that given the difficulty in developing generic solutions I actually believe that Blackbaud have done a good job with these integrations. We are skilled at doing this and have done it a lot. We can either do it for your or we can share the development. You have to look elsewhere for it. It does not save alongside the rest of the constituent records but has its own save routines.

What this also means is that the VBA events are not fired when a consent record is saved. In the first release it does not cause an exception when you do not supply a valid combination of channel and category as it does in the UI but if you are really clever or decipher the sample code , you can determine how to do your own validation. One of which being that it is much easier this way to work with very many consent records if they are a standalone entity How are we updating our applications to work with the consent module?

Audit Trail: As you would expect changes made on consent records will be tracked but because consent records are saved as a standalone entity they will only be saved if the constituent record is also saved afterwards. Validatrix: This is a tricky one. Importacular: As you would expect, Importacular allows you to import consent records. Chimpegration: This is perhaps our most ambitious development. So what went wrong? What we would like MailChimp to do: Either expose the V2 segment definitions again or allow us to pass in V3 segments into export.

Either way should not mean that the existing method is just turned off. We need to time to convert and test. Update the export API so that it is fully compliant with V3 again keeping the existing calls backward compatible Produce a guide to transitioning from v2 to v3. I have been asking for this since we started and amazed that this was never forthcoming. And now all of this is available to Blackbaud hosted clients too!

Vote now and tell all your friends and colleagues to vote too for Chimpegration! Then of course there is the proliferation of email or is it e-mail, etc addresses. Phone and email types are perhaps the most obvious but what other issues can arise? We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits.

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