No Categories in Automation

Hey steviepf1,

Thanks for posting! At this time, categories are not passed over via the WooCommerce for MailChimp plugin, so it wouldn’t be possible to trigger those ‘Category Follow-Up’ automation workflows. That’s a great idea though, and I’ve gone ahead and pushed that feedback over to our developers on your behalf.

In the meantime, you can still create Product Follow-Up automation workflows for specific products or any product purchase. More on that here: https://eepurl.com/b2Q71f

Please feel free to let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks!
Garnet

Thanks – product follow up is useless for me at this time.
Have more value using category follow up

I was able to create a workaround in the v2 plugin, but it requires you modify the core plugin.

After line 63 in “/includes/api/class-mailchimp-woocommerce-transform-products.php”, which is this:

$product->setUrl($woo->get_permalink());

Just add in this code:

// Set vendor to comma separated value of categories
$product->setVendor(strip_tags(wc_get_product_category_list($woo->get_id(), ',')));

One caveat is that it pulls in ALL categories in a CSV format, so you’ll have a LOT of variations. If you have a product that’s in “Category 1” it will add “Category 1” to the MC category list. If you have a product that’s in “Category 1” and “Category 2” it will add “Category 1,Category 2” to the MC category list. Pretty much any category variation.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by bstump.