Campaign Monitor Integration

[AlisonD36]

Hello,

Is there anyway to sync Constant Contact Data (lists, list members, custom fields etc) with Campaign Monitor?

So they would mirror from CC to CM, and say it got updated via a Cron Job?

Please help!

Thanks

[Shannon_W]

Hi,

I apologize, but I'm not aware of any Constant Contact-Campaign Monitor integration.  We haven't written any integrations to them, and I would be a little surprised if they had written an integration to us, so you'd be looking for third party integrations between the 2.  The only way I know to accomplish what you're looking for would be 1. hire a developer to use the Constant Contact and Campaign Monitor API's to write a custom integration, or 2. manually export your Constant Contact and Campaign Monitor contacts to a CSV or XLS document. merge them, and then import the result into both accounts.

Best Regards,

Shannon W.

API Support Specialist

[AlisonD36]

Hello,

Thanks for your response.

I am using a Constant Contact PHP API Wrapper: Constant Contact PHP Code Library - integrationservic.es

I am familular with the Campaign Monitor API also.

I am trying to export ALL contacts into a CSV using this wrapper but I get a vague error message.

"Operation failed: Invalid Request - There are many possible causes for this error, but most commonly there is a problem with the structure or content of XML your application provided. Carefully review your XML. One simple test approach is to perform a GET on a URI and use the GET response as an input to a PUT for the same resource. With minor modifications, the input can be used for a POST as well."

Ideally I want to export ALL contacts from each individual list and then import them elsewhere (CM)

Can you tell me of an easier way to export all contacts on a list basis? Or point me in the direction of another PHP wrapper that can fulfill my requirements.

You can view the wrapper working here with various examples: http://bit.ly/XBaHcH

Thanks

[Shannon_W]

Hi,

We don't support the integrationservic.es PHP, but if you use our PHP wrapper located here,  you can use the following code to generate an export contacts activity.

<?php

session_start ();
require_once 'ConstantContact.php';
require_once 'config.php';

$ConstantContact = new ConstantContact("oauth2", $apiKey, $username, $accessToken);

//Update your username and list ID in the string below
$exportString = "activityType=EXPORT_CONTACTS&fileType=CSV&exportOptDate=true&exportOptSource=true&exportListName=true&sortBy=DATE_DESC&columns=FIRST%20NAME&columns=LAST%20NAME&listId=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.constantcontact.com%2Fws%2Fcustomers%2Fusername%2Flists%2F1";  

$export = $ConstantContact->bulkAddContacts($exportString);

?>

This generates an activity in the account to export the contacts, which usually takes a few minutes.  The response from our server when you create the activity will return a link to download the file that is created.

Best Regards,

Shannon W.

API Support Specialist