How to set MailChimp for Affiliate Emails

MailChimp is an incredible tool for messaging associates and educating them of forthcoming advancements. In this instructional exercise will cover:

1. Exporting affiliate data from your current affiliate system
2. Importing affiliate data into MailChimp
3. Creating a merge tag in MailChimp so any referral URL used inside the email can have the affiliate’s own ID appended

Exporting affiliate data from your affiliate system

The main thing you'll have to do is fare a rundown of your affiliates. Most affiliate system ought to enable you to trade a CSV document which contains helpful data about the subsidiary, for example, their email address and associate ID. 

When you have the traded record, spare it to your PC so we can import it into MailChimp. AffiliateWP makes this simple by giving a fare instrument on the Affiliates

 → Tools page.

Importing affiliate data into MailChimp

Next we need to import the affiliate data into MailChimp so we can build a list of affiliates to email. If you happen to import an affiliate who already exists, you’ll get the option to update them.

1. Log in to MailChimp and click lists to go to the main lists page
2. Select the list that you’d like to import the affiliates into or click Create list to make a new one
3. On your list, click Add subscribers → Import subscribers

4. On the Import subscribers page click Import from a CSV or TXT File.

5. Next to the Upload a file input field click Browse to select your CSV file you saved earlier, and then click Open.

6. Click Upload List.

7. When you have effectively imported your CSV record you might be provoked to coordinate the segments in the transferred CSV document to the MailChimp list. On the off chance that you have any undesirable segments you'll additionally get the chance to skip them as appeared in the screenshots beneath. 

Tap the Save catch on the section containing the Affiliate ID. When you click spare, it will then highlight the following segment.

8. Click the Save button on the column containing the Email Address.

9. Click the Skip button on any remaining columns that you don’t need.

10. Once you have both the affiliate ID and email address columns saved click Complete Import.

  Yeah !! You should now see a list of subscribers containing their Email Address and also an Affiliate ID column. You done it successfully.

 

Creating a merge tag

As characterized on the MailChimp site, "Union labels enable you to powerfully add substance to your email". 

The accompanying strides will demonstrate to you how you can make a consolidation tag for the Affiliate's ID. This will enable you to include referral URLs inside the email and have the subsidiary's ID attached to the URLs.

1. Click Settings and then List fields and *|MERGE|* tags.

2. Find the Affiliate ID Field Label and if it’s not already set, change it’s merge tag to something that makes more sense. Here I’ve used AFFID.

3. Click Save Changes.

Using the merge tag

Inside the MailChimp editorial manager you can now utilize your new consolidation tag. You'll initially need to develop the URL, including everything except for the affiliate ID.

1. Add the URL that you’d like your affiliates to promote, followed by the referral variable. Here are a couple of examples of what this URL might look like:

http://yoursite.com/?ref=

http://yoursite.com/ref/

2. Click Merge tags and then Affiliate ID.

3. The *|AFFID|* merge tag will now be inserted.

4. That’s it! When your campaign is sent out to affiliates they will receive an email with their own unique affiliate ID added to the URL.

Thank You !!!