Adding contacts, providing HTML content and sending e-mail using API in ASP.NET (C#)
Hello,
After several live chat sessions with your colleauges, we decided to use Constant Contact and purchased the 6-month plan. Your colleagues told us that everything was possible with the API, including sending e-mails after customization.
I have looked at your C#.NET API sample but as far as I can see, it only shows how to add a contact or edit it. What we want to do can be summarized as follows:
1. Once a user is registered to our website, we want to create a contact associated to that user in our Constant Contact account and associate him/her to the relevant list
2. We want to send a customized an HTML based greetings e-mail to the newly registered user. Please note that we want to send a single e-mail for a single user (with customized name, e-mail, etc. sections)
3. We occasionally send periodic newsletters to the subscribed users.
We want to do all of these using the API because we do not have time to log in to the interface, prepare an HTML content, create a new list with a single user and schedule an immediate delivery. Your colleagues (live chat) told us that these are all do-able but we could not find how to do this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
At this time we do not
At this time we do not support the scheduling and sending of an email through the API. We recently introduced functionality surrounding campaigns allowing a user to create, modify, and delete custom HTML and XHTML emails, however at this time the functionality does not include scheduling and sending.
You can use our 'Welcome Email' feature to design a standard email that can be personalized for when the contact signs up either through the standard sign up form, or a custom API solution.
Dan H
Support Engineer, Constant Contact