After you have connected your Mandrill and Socital accounts, Socital allows you to sync your plugins with Mandrill. This way, every time a visitor connects through the Plugin on your website, a personalized transactional email will be sent directly from your Mandrill account.
Tip 1: If you haven’t connected your Mandrill and your Socital accounts yet, follow the steps here!
Tip 2: To create a Mandrill Template check out Mandrill’s documentation here!
Tip 3: You can also use the Templates that you have created in your Mailchimp account. Check out the documentation here!
To sync a Socital Plugin with Mandrill:
1. Login to your Socital account and go to “Data Collect”.
2. Click on “Plugins” on the left-hand menu.
3. Select the type of plugin that you want to connect to Mandrill.
4. Find the plugin that you want to connect to Mandrill and click on the “edit” button.
5. You will be directed to the Plugin Builder.
6. On the “Setup” tab of the Plugin Builder, scroll down to “Integrations”.
7. Click on “Select Integrations”.
8. Click on “Mandrill”.
9. On the right-hand menu that opens, select your Mandrill Account and one of your existing Mandrill templates, which will be used for the transactional email.
You can also personalize your Mandrill Template with Socital attributes such as the recipient’s Name or email address!
10. Fill in the Transactional Email Parameters.
- From Address: the sender email address. Make sure to use an email address of the verified sending domain you have set up for Mandrill.
- From Name: the sender name.
- Subject: the Subject Line of the email that will be sent.
Click on “Advanced Options” for additional settings, such as Tracking Opens and Clicks.
- Reply to: the email address that your subscribers will be able to reply to.
- Important: check to mark your email as important. In this case, the email will be delivered ahead of non-important emails.
- Track Opens: check to turn on open tracking for the email.
- Track Clicks: check to turn on click tracking for the email.
- Tracking Domain: add a custom domain to use for tracking opens and clicks instead of mandrillapp.com.
- Signing Domain: add a custom domain to use for SPF/DKIM signing instead of mandrill (for “via” or “on behalf of” in email clients).
- Google Analytics Domain: add Google Analytics Domains for your email.
- Google Analytics Campaign: set a Google Analytics Campaign for your email.
11. Click on “Done”.
12. Success! You have synced your plugin with Mandrill! Now the users that subscribe through your plugin will automatically receive your transactional email through Mandrill!