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    • How does Personal Discount work?
    • Frequently Asked Questions
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      • Shopify notifications
        • How to send an order confirmation email with a discount code in Shopify?
        • How to include a discount code in Shopify abandoned cart notification
        • How to send a unique discount code to customers who create an account?
        • How to send a discount code only if a specific product has been purchased?
      • Shopify Email
      • Mailchimp
        • How to set up an automated welcome email in Mailchimp
        • How to set up an abandoned cart email in Mailchimp?
        • Send unique coupons from Mailchimp to customers who bought a specific product
        • How to display a discount code as an image in a Mailchimp message
        • Create a link to apply discount automatically
        • Connect to Mailchimp
        • How to create a birthday campaign with a discount code using Mailchimp
      • AWeber
        • Reward new subscribers with a discount code using AWeber
      • ActiveCampaign
        • How to add a unique discount code to welcome emails in ActiveCampaign
        • How to create a recover abandoned carts campaign with a unique discount code via ActiveCampaign?
        • How to encourage customers to buy more from your shop with Personal Discount and ActiveCampaign?
      • Campaigner
        • How to integrate Personal Discount and Campaigner to send welcome emails with a discount code
      • Campaign Monitor
        • How to send automated welcome emails with discount codes using Campaign Monitor
      • ConvertKit
        • How to create a welcome campaign with ConvertKit
        • How to create a follow up on purchases automation with ConvertKit
      • iContact
        • Increase your newsletter audience using the iContact welcome campaign with a discount code
      • Klaviyo
        • Send a discount code for new subscribers using Klaviyo
        • Create an abandoned cart recovery campaign with Klaviyo
        • How to create a post-purchase campaign to increase customers' loyalty using Klaviyo
        • How to create a Happy Birthday campaign using Klaviyo
      • MailerLite
        • How to welcome new subscribers with a discount code using MailerLite
        • How to create a recover abandoned carts campaign with MailerLite
        • How to create Follow up on purchases campaign with MailerLite
      • Omnisend
        • How to create welcome new subscribers automation with Omnisend
        • Recover abandoned carts using Omnisend with Personal Discount
        • How to create Follow up on purchases campaign using Omnisend
      • Ontraport
        • How to send welcome emails with discount codes for new subscribers via Ontraport?
      • OrderlyEmails
      • SendGrid
        • How to send welcome discount with SendGrid?
      • Sendinblue
      • Vitals
        • How to create a pop-up and include a discount code in welcome emails with the Vitals app
    • Use cases
      • Offer a free product to your newsletter subscribers
      • How to create a link to the checkout with a discount code applied in the Shopify store?
    • Troubleshooting
      • Why my Shopify discount code doesn't work?
      • My Shopify customer's discount code was applied, but it shouldn't
      • Customer eligibility is not respected
      • Some of my subscribers in Klaviyo don't have a discount code generated in Personal Discount
      • Mailchimp is not sending emails with discount codes
      • Discount codes are not appearing in the emails sent by Mailchimp
      • I have received << Test discount code >> instead of real discount code in the Mailchimp test message
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    • Send unique coupons to new email subscribers using Mailchimp
    • Send unique coupons for your subscribers birthday
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  1. Personal Discount for Shopify
  2. Integrate Personal Discount with your Email Service Provider
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How to set up an automated welcome email in Mailchimp

Follow a step by step guide on how to set up the automated welcome email in Mailchimp and include a unique discount code from Personal Discount.

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Personal Discount creates unique coupon codes for your email subscribers. However, to send out the discount codes you'll need to set up an automated welcome email in Mailchimp.

Personal Discount Settings

Navigate to Personal Discount. Click on Add automation and connect the app with your Mailchimp account if it has not already been connected.

In the next step, provide the automation name and select the audience. Then pick the New Subscriber trigger. You can also decide whether to add new customers who accept marketing (for example at the Shopify checkout) to the Mailchimp list.

Edit an existing welcome email automation

Create an automated welcome email in Mailchimp

Log in to your Mailchimp account and click on Automations from the left-hand sidebar. Then hit Build from scratch and type a name of your new automation.

Choose a staring point, for us it is Signing up. You can also decide whether to include imported contacts.

Select the action that will be taken when a customer enters the journey. In our case the action is Send email. Then design your welcome message. You can choose one of pre-designed themes for this.

Include discount code merge tag

While preparing the email template, insert Shopify Discount Code merge tag into one of the merge text elements. It can be modified in the same way as other text. Save & Close the text element and if your template is ready, hit Save and Return to Journey.

In an actual email, the merge tag will be replaced with a unique discount code.

Ensure discount code is not blank

At this point, you could start the automation and it would work most of the times. However, there may be instances where Mailchimp is faster with sending the welcome email than Personal Discount is at creating the discount code and pushing it to Mailchimp. In such case, the email would be sent out without a discount code. To prevent such a situation you need to add a filter condition Shopify Discount Code is not blank to the automated welcome email. To add the filter:

  1. Click on Filters at the starting point.

  2. Check Contacts from a custom segment.

  3. Select the condition Shopify Discount Code and is not blank.

  4. If you have more than one condition then make sure that all of them match.

Note that a common mistake is to select the is condition and enter not blank as the value.

This way Mailchimp will wait until Personal Discount creates the code and assigns it to the subscriber profile.

Activate Mailchimp Journey

When the automation is ready, it's high time to activate it. Hit Continue and Turn On. Then the Journey will appear on the automations list with the status Active.

From now on, your customers will receive a welcome message with a discount code when they sign up to your newsletter.

Now you can set up details of your automation such as a discount value, usage limit, or expiration date. Learn more from .

If you're creating the welcome email from scratch then . Otherwise, if you already have a running welcome email, navigate to the Automations section, and click on All Journeys. Locate the automated welcome email, show the drop-down menu next to View Report and click on View Journey. Then hit Pause & Edit, click on Send email point → Edit Email Content.

At this point you can .

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Personal Discount setting for welcome automation with Mailchimp
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Add an email as journey point in Mailchimp welcome automation
Insert Personal Discount code into Mailchimp welcome email template
Set Shopify Discount Code is not blank filter
Correct Shopify Discount Code is not blank filter
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