Subscribe and manage preferences

The Subscribe and manage preferences action combines the options to subscribe and update preferences into a single action.

Identifying the relevant user

In addition to allowing new users to subscribe to your Mailchimp audience, this action also enables existing users to update their current preferences. To identify the current user, you'll need to provide the user's email address as a parameter in the URL. To do this, include a question mark (?) at the end of the URL, followed by email= and the user's email address. For example, https://my-organisation.action.link/manage-preferences?email=[e-mail].

Displaying existing users their current preferences Unfortunately due to a limitation of the Mailchimp API we aren't currently able to show existing users their current preferences. If an existing user submits the form without checking any of the preference boxes, they will be removed from any Lists that you've included in the form.

Action settings

Field	Details
Require a name	If checked, the user will be given the option view and update the name that you have on record.
Audience/List	Choose an Audience from those available in your Mailchimp account (most users will only have one Audience configured in their Mailchimp account).
Interest Categories/Groups	Group together relevant preferences and display a title above each group.
Interest Category/Group -> Interest Category/Group Option Title	The title of the group of preferences that will display above the list, e.g. What would you like to hear about?.
Interest Category/Group -> Interest/Group Option name	The name that you want to display to the user for the preference.
Interest Category/Group -> Interest/Group Option	The Interest/Group you want to add or remove the user from when this preference is checked or unchecked.
Interest Category/Group -> Hide this option	If checked, this option won't be displayed to users, but it will be available to populate using a parameter in the URL. To do this, add a question mark (?) followed by interest= and the ID of the Interest, e.g. ?interest=10. You can include multiple Lists by repeating the interest=10 part, separated by an ampersand (&). For example, your URL might look like this: https://my-organisation.action.link/subscribe?interest=10&interest=11.