Move from Mailchimp
Your lists, brought across with one key.
Paste a Mailchimp API key under Migrations → From a provider. Every list becomes an audience, every subscribed member a contact, and unsubscribed addresses go on Blocked addresses.
In short
How does a Mailchimp import work?
OpenEmail reads your Mailchimp account with an API key and brings your lists across. Each list becomes an audience with its subscribed members as contacts, and unsubscribed and cleaned addresses go on Blocked addresses as unsubscribes and bounces.
How it works
One key, erased afterwards
Use a Mailchimp API key, the kind that ends in its data centre, such as -us6. It is held encrypted only while the import runs, and erased when it finishes, fails or is cancelled.
Templates arrive as drafts
The editable sections of your own Mailchimp templates arrive as unpublished drafts, ready for you to finish and publish.
A report to work from
The report counts what was brought across, lists your domains to add here and is kept under History.
What you get
In the product today
Unsubscribes kept
Unsubscribed addresses arrive on Blocked addresses as unsubscribes, and cleaned ones as bounces.
Safe to run twice
Running the import a second time duplicates nothing.
From code as well
The import runs over the REST API as POST /provider-imports, in the SDK as providerImports.create, and on the command line as openemail provider-imports create with --provider-key.
Good practice
Getting the most out of it
- 01
Finish each draft
Open each template draft, lay it out and give it a subject, then publish it.
- 02
Use the domain list as a checklist
The report names each of your domains, ready to add here one at a time.
- 03
Revoke the key afterwards
OpenEmail erases its copy when the import ends, so revoke the key at Mailchimp too once you are done.
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your mail.
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