Retirement of Legacy Events tool

[Aarron_G]

Constant Contact has rebuilt and redesigned our events marketing tool!

Our new events tool is being referred to as "Events 2.0", and we're now referring to the long-standing tool as "Legacy Events". Our Legacy Events tool is in the process of being retired, which has been communicated to Constant Contact users who were actively utilizing the tool, with the following timeline:

• On April 1st, 2024, existing legacy events became "read-only." It is no longer possible to create new legacy events or use the copy functionality for existing legacy events.
• Effective June 1st, 2024, the Legacy Events tool will be retired from our product completely.

The event management endpoints available via our v2 API only support the Legacy Events tool. The v2 API itself has been considered a legacy tool for several years, and as such, has not received development related to new Constant Contact tools or features.

Any POST or PUT requests made to Events endpoints via our v2 API currently return an HTTP 400 response, with the error key "http.status.gone". Effective June 1st, GET requests made to v2 API Events endpoints will return the same error response.

We plan to add event management endpoints to the v3 API, supporting the Events 2.0 tool only, however a specific timeline for the new endpoints is not yet available. Information on any new endpoints will be added to the Release Notes section of our v3 API documentation.

Information about the differences between the two tools and the retirement of Legacy Events can be found in these articles from our Knowledge Base & Community:

• Legacy Events versus Events 2.0
• Events 2.0 and Legacy Event Retirement FAQ

[NelsonL17]

It's been several months since Events 2.0 has been implemented and there have been no updates to the API endpoints. Now legacy events are fully retired and still no updates? Why?

[Courtney_E]

Hello NelsonL17,

Thank you for reaching out to Constant Contact API Developer Support. My team is here to assist outside software developers with questions about building into Constant Contact's API.

Unfortunately, there are not yet any endpoints available in V3 for Events. 

You can view our available V3 endpoints via the Constant Contact Developer Portal:

https://v3.developer.constantcontact.com/api_guide/index.html

However, we're continuously developing and adding endpoints and capabilities to the V3 API. While there is no ETA at this time, we are in the process of developing endpoints for the API related to the new Events tool. 

For updates on which new features and endpoints have been released for Constant Contact's V3 API, you can stay updated by checking the Constant Contact V3 API Release Notes page:

V3 API - Release Notes

https://developer.constantcontact.com/api_guide/index.html

Please have a look and let us know if you have any other questions!