Free E-commerce Tracking for Email Newsletters by MailChimp

[mailchmp_api]

Today we've officially released the MailChimp Ecommerce Tracking Plugin! This FREE plugin helps you measure the ROI of your email campaigns. We'll track when people click from your email campaigns, visit your website, all the way to purchase. Then we'll aggregate the information and display it on your MailChimp campaign report.

 

Our basic feature overview page is here:

http://www.mailchimp.com/ecommerce360/

 

Details on the plugin and download links are here:

http://www.mailchimp.com/plugins/ecomm360.phtml

 

osCommerce add-on page:

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6355

 

And best of all, it's free! Enjoy!

[Guest]

You've lost me here:

4. At the bottom of "checkout_success.php", change this:

<?php require_once(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'mc360/mc360_process.php');?>

 

to this:

<?php require_once(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'mc360/mc360_process.php');?>

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

[Guest]

You've lost me here:

4. At the bottom of "checkout_success.php", change this:

<?php require_once(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'mc360/mc360_process.php');?>

 

to this:

<?php require_once(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'mc360/mc360_process.php');?>

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

 

Did you mean change this:

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

 

to this:

<?php require_once(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'mc360/mc360_process.php');?>

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

 

 

 

?

Edited November 11, 2008 by Between the Sticks USA

[philldo]

Thanks! Can't wait to test this out. Mailchimp just keeps on getting better.

[mailchmp_api]

Yes, that's exactly what we meant. The Readme is being corrected now. Sorry for the confusion!

 

You've lost me here:

 

 

Did you mean change this:

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

 

to this:

<?php require_once(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'mc360/mc360_process.php');?>

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

 

 

 

?

[Guest]

Adding this at the bottom as instructed is breaking my site:

3. Add the following line to the very bottom of "includes/application_top.php" (though before the "?>")

require_once(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'mc360/mc360_examiner.php');

[mailchmp_api]

Adding this at the bottom as instructed is breaking my site:

 

Can you be more specific about how it breaks? Is it just showing the bar across the top telling you to configure it? Can you post an error message or screenshot?

[mailchmp_api]

FYI, just uploaded an updated version to the oscommerce site (and ours) that may fix the issue you were seeing. There was some unnecessary logging code left in there and some PHP5 only functions were removed.

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6355

 

Adding this at the bottom as instructed is breaking my site:

[philldo]

I've installed the updated add-on (11/18/2008). Everything seemed to work great on our test cart.

 

Then I installed the add-on on our production cart with a new api key. The campaign report does not show my test purchases. The report lists the test cart url and not the production url. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Or maybe I need to use actual money instead of a gift card to make the purchase? I'll have to take a look at the add-on code.

[mailchmp_api]

I've installed the updated add-on (11/18/2008). Everything seemed to work great on our test cart.

 

Then I installed the add-on on our production cart with a new api key. The campaign report does not show my test purchases. The report lists the test cart url and not the production url. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Or maybe I need to use actual money instead of a gift card to make the purchase? I'll have to take a look at the add-on code.

The plugin does not care what method of payment was used for the purchase.

 

What does matter, though, are the links that you are clicking to get to the store. If you sent a test campaign with links to your test store clicking them will not cause purchases to be tracked in your production store. In order to have the purchases tracked in your production store you'll need to send a campaign that contains links to your production store, click one, and then follow through to a purchase.

[philldo]

The plugin does not care what method of payment was used for the purchase.

 

What does matter, though, are the links that you are clicking to get to the store. If you sent a test campaign with links to your test store clicking them will not cause purchases to be tracked in your production store. In order to have the purchases tracked in your production store you'll need to send a campaign that contains links to your production store, click one, and then follow through to a purchase.

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

I figured as much. I did use new links to the production store in my test email. I saw a set of cookies for each store in my browser. I just tried making a new campaign versus just replicating the first test one. Still no go.

[Guest]

Go into your admin area of the osCommerce site

 

Click on Modules

Click on Header Tags

Click on MailChip E-Commerce 360

Click on Remove Module

 

It will remove it from the active modules...

 

You have to have all of your certs installed on the server and the credit card processing configured already before you can use this module.

 

It should be the last thing you configure... I am not affiliated with osCommerce or with the monkey mail module... It just drove me bananas until I figured out how to get rid of the error...