Before you start! Make sure that you have made the initial integration on the webshop so that Clerk.io is synced with your product catalog and order history.
1. Create an Email Design #
The first thing you have to do is create a Design for your emails. You can create as many different designs as you want and each Design can be used across many different recommendations blocks.
1. In my.clerk.io backend, head to the menu on the left hand side. Click Email -> Designs.
2. Click New Design.
3.Select the design type, the type of content and Name the design. Then click Create Design.
4. Add to or modify your email design. Click Publish when you are happy with your design.
2. Create Your First Email Content #
Each type of Email recommendations should have its own Content block. These Content blocks control how many products to show, which logic to use, if any filters should apply, etc.
1.Go to Email.
2.Click Content and Add Email Content and give it a name .
3. Give a Name to the email content and Set the goals that you would like to accomplish with this Email content, in order to choose the correct slider for your specific situation. After that, Create Content.
4.The Product logic would be chosen depending on your goals, but you are always more than welcome to change it.
5 . Select the Number of products you want to show and choose one of the designs you have created. Click Update Content to save your changes.
3. Get the Embedcode #
1.Under Insert into email, choose Mailchimp as the E-mail Platform.
- OPTIONAL: Depending on the Content Logic you have chosen, you might need to add extra data like keywords or a category ID.
3. Click Copy Embed Code To Clipboard on the Content page.
4. Embed the Recommendations in Mailchimp #
1.In Mailchimp, go to Templates.
2. Click Edit on the template that you want to insert your email recommendations in.
3. Drag a Code Block to the part of the template where you want recommendations to be shown.
4. Paste the embedcode into the editor.
Congratulations! You now have Email Recommendations in your MailChimp template!