Merge fields invalid

Hi @brunoairam,

Please double-check your merge fields in MailChimp. Our plugin assumes the MailChimp default merge fields of FNAME, LNAME, and EMAIL. If those are not setup in MailChimp or are named differently, you’ll get the “merge fields were invalid” message.

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

Hi,

This is my MailChimp settings in the associated list:

As you can see merge fields are correct, yet still showing up the error message.
Any other idea?

Thanks.

@brunoairam,

Thanks for sending the screenshot. It looks like from hour merge fields that the Pays field could be the issue. It is marked as required, yet that field is not sent by default by our plugin. Therefore, MailChimp might be kicking back the subscription for not having that merge field populated. The easiest solution would be to make that optional. If it is truly required, you can hook into the plugin action hooks/filters to send it along to MailChimp. See this help article for how to achieve that: https://support.saintsystems.com/hc/en-us/articles/208477286-Sending-additional-fields-to-MailChimp

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

Thanks for trying to help, unfortenately it didn’t work. I’ve added this in functions.php:

// tie into the WooCommerce MailChimp ‘ss_wc_mailchimp_subscribe_merge_tags’ action filter to add the MailChimp merge tag for Birthday
function ss_wc_send_country_field_to_mailchimp( $merge_tags, $order_id, $email ) {
// retrieve the birthday from the order meta/custom fields
$country = get_post_meta( $order_id, ‘billing_country’, true );

// Add ‘BIRTHDAY’ merge variable to MailChimp call (change ‘BIRTHDAY’ to whatever your merge variable is called in MailChimp)
$merge_tags[‘PAYS’] = $country;
return $merge_tags;
}
add_filter( ‘ss_wc_mailchimp_subscribe_merge_tags’ , ‘ss_wc_send_country_field_to_mailchimp’, 10 , 3 );

The field “PAYS” (country in French) was already managed by WooCommerce. So I just use the meta billing_country but still not working.

Hi again and thanks for the help.

Unfortenately our site is pretty sensitive and my board is not comfortable with the idea of giving the admin access to you.

I’ve tried this for the city field:

// tie into the WooCommerce MailChimp 'ss_wc_mailchimp_subscribe_merge_tags' action filter to add the MailChimp merge tag for City
function ss_wc_send_city_field_to_mailchimp( $merge_tags, $order_id, $email ) {
    // retrieve the birthday from the order meta/custom fields
    $city = get_post_meta( $order_id, 'billing_city', true );

    // Add 'BIRTHDAY' merge variable to MailChimp call (change 'BIRTHDAY' to whatever your merge variable is called in MailChimp)
	$merge_tags['VILLE'] = $city;
    return $merge_tags;
}
add_filter( 'ss_wc_mailchimp_subscribe_merge_tags' , 'ss_wc_send_city_field_to_mailchimp', 10 , 3 );

Unfortenately not working either. The good thing though is that it doesn’t block the subscriber addition any longer. I have the name, first name and email address populated which is the most important thing. Too bad I can’t add the country and city field as well.

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