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Sami.C
Sami.C

Reputation: 721

Adding Mailchimp members as "Not-Subscribed" through API

In this article: https://mailchimp.com/help/about-your-contacts/ it lists the status options as:

  1. Subscribed
  2. Unsubscribed
  3. Not-Subscribed
  4. Cleaned

By passing in "subscribed" or "unsubscribed" as the status, this will update, however I cannot find a valid value to pass in for people who are Not-Subscribed.

"Pending" puts them into a pending state which triggers an email to be sent to the user to approve. The API doesn't allow you to leave it blank.

Is there a way to do this? In an ideal world, I want to allow the system calling the API to set subscribe/unsubscribe after further action from the user, while still initially adding them into the contacts list.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 672

Answers (1)

Fox Cadet
Fox Cadet

Reputation: 49

According to the Mailchimp API documentation, these are the only possible values for a subscriber's current status:

"subscribed" "unsubscribed" "cleaned" "pending"

I suggest trying null if possible, or leaving the value empty as status= to see if that works. Otherwise, documentation is law.

Edit: Untested, but you could also try passing an empty value using %02%03 as the contents of the value, given that %02 denotes the start of an ASCII character and %03 denotes the end of an ASCII Character. Success would depend on whether the Mailchimp server would allow it.

Upvotes: 1

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