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I need help creating a newsletter in my laravel website , where user can select the categories that they want to subscribe to.I know this can be achieved using mailchimp by creating groups as categories, but I don't know how to integrate this if the categories are dynamic . What are the possible solutions, like using any service (cheap) or should I use cron jobs.Please suggest.
@rajneet what about tags? https://mailchimp.com/help/getting-started-tags/
You can easily add them with Laravel Newsletter package:
// Add tags for a member in a given list, any new tags will be created
Newsletter::addTags(['tag-1', 'tag-2'], '[email protected]');
@sti3bas Thanks for replying.So these tags can be created by using api in mailchimp ?
@sti3bas Also my client wants to use mandrill, I am a newbie in these email subscription stuff, But I read that mandrill is for transactional emails, can it be used for subscriptions as well.
@rajneet yes, they can be assigned for each subscriber individually without creating a static list.
@rajneet well, you would have to manage the subscriptions list yourself or use some other tool like https://mailcoach.app if you want to use Mandrill.
@sti3bas Manage subscription myself does this mean , using cron jobs ?
@rajneet Mandrill is a transactional email service so it doesn't offer email subscriptions functionality as Mailchimp do.
@sti3bas Please let me know does mailcoach emails go to spam or not?
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