A bit of a background: I volunteer at a non-profit and one of their processes is very inefficient and manual. I am trying to make this automated with Make.com. Specific branch of the flow deals with Constant Contact and creating a workshop email along with scheduling the original registration email and a follow-up reminder right before the workshop.
Where I am getting stuck: My automation can create the Email campaign and I see there’s a schedule module as well, but neither of the modules allow you to associate an email list to that campaign. There is a module to get the list ids but no way to update campaign with that.
Is there something I am missing?
I do see an alternative path to solving this with API calls but from what I see it’s a good number of API calls:
Create the email campaign with HTML
List the contact lists and filter
Update the email campaign with the list id
Send out a test email for review
Schedule the email campaign with wider list
I would appreciate any guidance in figuring out how to easily associate an email list with an email campaign or if I must do the API route, I can start working on that.
Make doesn’t have Constant Contact modules for the particular endpoints that you want to call.
If the external service has a Developer API Reference/Documentation then you should be able to integrate the endpoints in Make using the app’s universal module (Make an API call) or generic HTTP “Make a request” module.
You can also suggest for it to be made in the Idea exchange. Don’t forget to search for it first, just in case someone already suggested it, so that you don’t end up creating a duplicate.
If you need assistance in setting up the app’s universal module, or the generic HTTP module, please provide additional information about what you have tried with regards to the external service’s Developer API Reference – how you are setting the connection up, a link to the endpoint are you trying to connect to, and what errors you are encountering.
You can also complete this brand new course/tutorial in the Make Academy on how to use external APIs — API calls with HTTP modules
API and Endpoints
Header and body
Multipart/form-data
OAuth 2.0
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
P.S.: Did you know, the concepts of about 70% of questions asked on this forum are already covered in the Make Academy. Investing some effort into it will save you lots of time and frustration using Make later!
