Seamless Donations does not work with Mailchimp when using standard Paypal

Seamless Donations knows nothing of MailChimp. It just executes the PayPal-provided API to do a donation with PayPal. If you want to integrate MailChimp into your commerce flow, I’d recommend Easy Digital Downloads. I use EDD for purchasers of add-ins, and those purchasers are automatically added to MailChimp (I bought an EDD add-on to do that). I think they also have a donations module.

–David

P.S. Marking as resolved because feature available in another plugin.

Hey David,

Thanks for getting back to me. I just checked out EDD, but I see only standard store stuff, not anything about donations instead of purchases, what to buy, and how to set it up.

Also, I’m assuming their Mailchimp integration only works with their commerce plugin, much like Woo Chimp works with WooCommerce?

Is there any Mailchimp plugin you know of that works directly with Seamless Donations, or do I have to adapt a typical commerce plugin like EDD or WooCOmmerce to a donation scenario?

Hi
Hope you don’t mind a comment.
I use MailPoet (rather than Mail Chimp) but I suspect the principles are the same

I use this hook ‘seamless_donations_paypal_ipn_processing_complete’
which takes the session as the variable and gives access to donor firstname, Lastname and email address for a given donation (plus all the other stuff).

I then insert these values into the Donor mail list using a mailpoet function.
You could check whether they ticked the box to receive updates before actioning
Seems to work
Regards
Michael

Hi Michael,

thanks for your input! Alas, I’m not a programmer (I’m just the CEO trying to figure this out, as my web guy left for Mexico.) Would you mind breaking it down a little further? Where do you “use the hook” (is hook the same as an IPN code?) in your mail program, and what do you mean “takes the session as the variable?” In Mailchimp, you set up all of the desired fields, and they have an integration with Paypal, but when I called their tech support, the guy said they would need an IPN sent from Seamless Donations to put people on the mailing list. I would seriously pay you to figure this out for me, or if I can’t get it to work with Seamless, to have donations work with WooCommerce, as more than just an add-on donation button in the cart below a product, which is what I’ve found so far…

Laurie
I am not a good enough programmer to do this for you but looks like the mail chimp people can help. The “hook” they are talking about, and the one I mentioned, can be found in David’s documentation. (The function called when paypal returns to seamless donations) I looked at mail chimp and they have similar functions to the one’s I use. A few lines of code in ,seamless_donations_paypal_ipn_processing_completeand placed in a child theme functions.php will insert the details into mail chimp
Hope that helps
Regards
Michael