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Aweber/Paypal integration and Campaigns
December 8, 2018
12:05 pm
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Hey John,

So I ran into a bit of a technical hiccup here. I understand using the Paypal integration to subscribe to a different list on purchase, to automate the download delivery. But I'm not seeing a way to add a tag on purchase to trigger a campaign. Since you've said you're only using one list with a bunch of campaigns, how do you automate the delivery?

I assume there must be some way to have PayPal apply a tag to a subscriber on purchase to trigger a campaign, but I'm not seeing it. 

December 10, 2018
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Same challenge I am running into. I've got so many lists of customer's now based on which album, LTO or upsell it's becoming a bit of a management nightmare.

December 10, 2018
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Hi guys, there are three ways to do it...

1. Create a thank you page for each product so that when people order they get taken to a unique page, with a unique aweber form on it, and where you ask the new customer to enter their name and email address. Whether they are on your list or not, this action will add whatever tags you add to the form to the new, or existing subscriber, and will trigger the campaign. This works really well. the only issue is that if someone closes their window before being redirected, or Paypal screws up the redirect, they never get added to the list. This requires you to monitor things and make sure everyone is getting their music.

2. Create a unique list for each product and then use the Paypal integration steps shown in MMM. Create a rule to apply tag upon subscription. This also works really well, and there is no issue with people closing the page or needing to take the additional step of adding their email again. However, it means many lists in time. That said, having many lists is not too much trouble. When sending broadcasts in the future you can just tick all of their respective boxes and add all of your different lists to each broadcast. The only negative here is that it means you need to send out one broadcast to your main list and one email to all of your customer lists, grouped together. This is necessary because you should only be broadcasting to people on your main list that signed up long enough ago that they are not still actively in your follow up series. If you grouped all of your customer lists into broadcast to the main list, that same rule would carry over to the customer list and recent customers would not receive the email.

3. You can hire a developer to create a script that interfaces with Aweber's API to pass tags based on what product is ordered. I have done this for clients, and it works, but it;s very fragile, and can break.

I find #2 to be the lesser of all evils.

Hope that all makes sense.

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July 13, 2019
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Hello John (& everyone else!),
Hope all's well. Just testing my funnel and after buying my CD & downloads the Aweber/Paypal integration doesn't seem to have taken me off the initial list and onto the new. I've been in touch with Aweber and everything seems ok. I'm just reading through the Aweber page on how to set things up and it says: "PayPal may take up to 2 hours to report new customers to your AWeber account".

I'm wondering if this may be the issue - do you know if it's normal to have to wait that long? If so it means there's a lengthy gap between someone making a purchase and then receiving the email with the downloads.

July 13, 2019
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All sorted! Aweber's customer service is really good - you're right!

In case anyone else has the same issue - the problem was that when I integrated Paypal with Aweber, the Notification URL wasn't automatically put into Paypal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification for those not in the know) so I had to manually do it using this link:
https://www.paypal.c…webscr?.....ipn-notify
and then turn on the IPN.

Hopefully after all this effort, someone will actually buy something so all this time and effort will have been worthwhile.
(Anyone here want to buy some music...?!!)

July 15, 2019
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H Keith,

Glad you got it sorted!

Aweber is the best.

Cheers.

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