Sendinblue

The Sendinblue plugin lets you track every customer interaction that takes place on your website. It automatically syncs your user data in your Sendinblue list.

Installing the plugin

The installation process is the same for all the addons, offered by WP Event Manager. They can be both installed automatically and manually.

• Automatic Installation: You can install the plugin from the backend of your WordPress. Click Here to see how you can install the plugin automatically.
• Manual Installation: You can also install the plugin manually using SFTP or FTP tools. Click Here to see how you can install the plugin manually.

Obtaining Sendinblue API keys:

You can create your Sendinblue account for free.

After signing up on Sendinblue, you can access the API Console for managing your API Keys.

To get a new API Key for Sendinblue, here are the steps you need to take:

• Go to the SMTP/ API navigation (avatar dropdown menu).



1. You will see the key in the “Your API key” section.
   

Integrating API keys with WordPress at the Admin panel

To integrate the API keys with WordPress at the Admin Panel, Here are the steps you need to take:

1. Go to Admin >> Event Manager >> Sendinblue.
2. Copy the API key from the Sendinblue account and paste it to the WordPress dashboard.
3. Click on save settings.
   

Your Sendinblue account is synced with the WordPress website.

Sendinblue Settings at Admin Panel

After the keys are connected, certain settings need to be performed to enable the functioning of the Sendinblue plugin.

1. Audience List Type selection:

Here, the admin gets an opportunity to select the list of contacts(audience list that has already been created in your Sendinblue account)


• There are mainly two types of audience lists one is an event based list and another the list that syncs all the data.

2. Select Sendinblue Sync Type:

There are mainly two types of Sendinblue Sync Type – Auto and Manual.

1. Auto- When you select the Auto-sync type, the data gets synced automatically.

When you select auto sync type, we offer you to further 2 options:


1. When New Created: As soon as a new user completes registration, the data gets automatically synced to the Sendinblue list.

2. Cron Job: When you select Cron Job, you get an option to sync the data when the cron job is run, 5 Min, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.

• Manual- When you select the Manual sync type, the data gets synced only after the Admin manually syncs it.

Note: Only after the Admin tick the checkbox to Enable registration sync with Sendinblue, option, the data gets synced.

3. Field Mapping with Sendinblue

Registration Fields:



The Left-hand fields show you all the fields you generate from the registration form fields. (WP Admin>> Event Registrations>>Registration forms>> form fields).
The right-hand side fields are related to the Sendinblue form.

Note: If you want to add your phone number, you have to follow the below-mentioned format as Sendinblue accepts this format only.

Example:

91 000000000

+913000000000

0091 000000000

How To Manually Sync the Data at The Admin panel

In order to manually sync the data, the author has to select the Manual option in the Sync type while setting up the Sendinblue Plugin.

1. Manually Sync Registration Data:

Here, are the steps you need to take to manually sync the registration data:

1. Go to WP-admin >> Event registrations >> All registrations
2. Select the events/ and checkmark the audience to be synced.(the registrations received for the event).
   
3. Click on Bulk Action.
4. Click on Sync with Sendinblue.
5. Check Sendinblue account.
6. All the data will be synced.
   

Also, the status of the user synced can be seen in the Sendinblue column, as subscribed, just before the user status on the same dashboard.

2. Manually Sync Contact Organizer Form Data( We are not providing this right now )



Manual Sync does not apply to the contact organizer form data. The information is always automatically synced.

Integrating API keys at The Frontend for Organizers

The organizers can sync the registered user data from the frontend in their Sendinblue account.
Here are the steps you need to take to integrate API keys at the frontend:

1. Go to Event dashboard >> Sendinblue >> Settings.
2. Copy the API key from the Sendinblue account and paste it into the box asked.
3. Click on save settings.
   

Sendinblue Settings at Frontend

After the keys are connected, certain settings need to be performed to determine the way the registered user data will be synced.

Audience List Type selection:

Here, the organizer gets an opportunity to select the list of contacts(audience list that has already been created in your Sendinblue account)

• There are mainly two types of audience lists one is an event based list and another is the list that syncs all the data.



Select Sendinblue Sync Type:

There are mainly two types of Sendinblue Sync Type – Auto and Manual



• Auto- When you select the Auto-sync type, the data gets synced automatically.
  

When you select auto sync type, we offer you 2 more options:

1. When New Created: As soon as a new user completes registration, the data gets automatically synced to the Sendinblue list.

2. Cron Job: When you select Cron Job, you get an option to sync the data when the cron job is run, 5 Min, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.

• Manual- When you select the Manual sync type, the data gets synced only after the organizer manually syncs it.
  

3. Select Custom Field Type

• Registration Fields:
  

  The Left-hand fields show you all the fields you generate from the registration form fields. (WP Admin>> Event Registrations>>Registration forms>> form fields).

  The right-hand side fields are related to the Sendinblue form.

• Contact Organizer Fields:The Left-hand fields show you all the fields you generate from the Contact Organizer form fields. (WP-Admin>> Event Manager>>Contact organizer form fields)..

  The right-hand side fields are related to the Sendinblue form.

  Please associate correct attributes that you want to sync from contact organizer form fields to Sendinblue form fields.

  

How To Manually Sync the Data at Frontend

In order to manually sync the data, a user has to select the Manual option in the Sync type while setting up the Sendinblue Plugin in the event dashboard.

1. Manually Sync Registration Data

Here are the steps you need to take to manually sync the registration data:

1. Go to Event Dashboard >> Sendinblue>> Sync Registrations.
2. Select the event and press filter.
   
3. Tick mark the attendees to be synced.
4. Click on Sync.
   
5. Check Sendinblue account.
6. All the data will be synced.
   

Also, the status of the user synced can be seen in the Sendinblue column.

2. Manually Sync Contact Organizer Form Data



Manual Sync does not apply to contact organizer form data. The information is always automatically synced.

How To Sync Data on the basis of Event from the frontend?

In order to sync the data on the basis of the events, a user has to select Event based selection in the Audience list type, while setting up Sendinblue on the event dashboard.

Here are the steps, you need to take the following steps:

1. Go to the Event Dashboard >> Sendinblue>> settings.
2. Click on the Event-based selection in the audience list type.
   
3. Go to the Event dashboard >> Events.
4. Select the event and expand it by clicking on the three lines.
5. In the Sendinblue section, select the list that you want these event registrations to be synced in.
   

Note: By default, the sync for all the events will be disabled, hence the organizer needs to select the audience list for particular events from this section.

6. Similarly, select the list for all the events individually.
7. Now, these lists are saved for particular events.

Now depending on your sync type, Auto or manual, the lists will be synced. In case it’s Auto, the registrations will be synced automatically either when the user is registered or on the basis of Cron job, and if the settings are Manual, you need to manually sync the attendees from the Event dashboard>> Sendinblue>> Sync registrations.

1. Check Sendinblue account.
2. All the data will be synced.