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Hello Tinal37,   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.   The standard rate limits of 10,000 requests per day and 4 requests per second are applied per API key, rather than per endpoint and are applied across all api.cc endpoints.   Please let us know if you have any other questions!   Regards, ... View more

Hello TinaI37,   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.   It looks like we've already followed up with you directly via email, but I wanted to close the loop here as well. If you haven't received our reply, please let us know via email at webservices@constantcontact.com, and reference case number 31231986.   Please have a look and let us know if you have any other questions!   ... View more

Hello TinaI37,   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.   We currently have an open request for the ability to edit the plain text version for Custom Code HTML email campaigns, for custom code emails created via both our API and website UI. I have tracked this feature request with your account. Your feedback and experience with this request is essential to improving our product, so thank you for reaching out to us regarding this matter.   A few things you could potentially do would be to generate/host a read only version that is linked at the top of the email (something like "access the following link for text only version") and/or you can use the tag that we offer to add a "View as Webpage" link, which is accessible once the live send has completed.   <a href="[[viewAsWebpage]]">View as Webpage</a>   If you feel that redirecting to an external web page (in either of those cases) would not be an option for your customers viewing the text only emails, you could also do some testing to see if there is a way to reformat the text content so that it displays as desired using different tags (like using the Line Break element if you currently have the lines separated in a different way).    Otherwise, if that would affect the appearance of the layout in an undesirable way, you could try adding a hidden section at the top (using a differently formatted version of the text (possibly using something like style="font-size: 0px;") so that in the text only version it appears correctly before the rest of the content that you are seeing now.   While our expertise is with our API itself as opposed to its implementation within any particular programming language, we are happy to answer any questions pertaining to Constant Contact’s API endpoints, functionality, and documentation.   Please have a look and let us know if you have any other questions! ... View more

It sounds like you are trying to use the Constant Contact API to send out customized news items to your email list. If I understand correctly, you want to create a campaign template and then use that template to send out new updates by changing the news text and date for each email. You are correct that you can create a campaign template in Constant Contact and save it as a draft. You can then use the API to add or remove contacts from the list of recipients and send the email. However, if you want to change the content of the campaign for each email, you will need to create a new campaign each time. One way to achieve this is to use the Constant Contact API to create a new campaign for each news item. You can create a template for the campaign that includes your standard email design, and then add the news item and date as custom fields. You can then use the API to add the recipients to the campaign and send the email. Alternatively, you could use a third-party email marketing tool that allows you to create dynamic templates. With a dynamic template, you can define fields for the content that can be filled in with different values for each email. This would allow you to send out customized news items without having to create a new campaign for each email. I hope this helps! ... View more