TOPIC: Syncing existing Joomla users into a new Mailchimp

I have about 160 users in my Joomla site.

I installed CMC and it's now syncing to the new Mailchimp list I created to which I'd like to copy my existing Joomla users as subscribers.

Is this how CMC can be used?

Hey Keita,
I don't understand your question? In the backend there is an option to sync your joomla users to mailchimp.

Regards,
Daniel

Hi Daniel.

If I click Sync, what happens next?

The only thing I do NOT want happen is for mailchimp to send confirmation email to all 160 joomla users as they are already opted in.

I don't understand you? You have 160 users in your mailchimp list or on your site?

If it is in mailchimp, just click on sync and they'll be added to your local db (no emails will be sent).

If on the other hand you want to add the joomla users to your mailchimp list => all users will receive the mail.

Regards,
Daniel

No, I have 160 users in Joomla. My mailchimp has no one yet.

My understanding of what CMC does was it will sync those Joomla users into mailchimp.

My Joomla users have already opted in when they were on the previous site (before I copied them over to the new website I'm building), so I don't want the opt-in emails sent to them.

After further reading what your component does, I don't think what I'm trying to achieve is possible.

What if I imported the Joomla user data (email address and name) into mailchimp list as opted-in subscribers and synced? Would it overwrite the user data I already have in my Joomla?

CMC won't override anything.
If you don't want to send a mail to the users, then you'll need to hack the code.

administrator\components\com_cmc\controllers\users.php on line 208 you have:
change it to
This way your users won't receive a mail asking them to confirm their subscription to your list.

After you do the change go to users -> then select the option to add users to mailchimp. Select the user groups you want added to mailchimp and click the "go" button.

Once the users are added, go the sync button and sync your users.

Regards,
Daniel

Thanks for the info, Daniel. That worked great.

Just to check this modification does not affect the double opt-in prompt via CMC subscription module, does it?

Hi Daniel
I'm new to this component and I also had existing members that were already subscribed to my newsletters so I didn't want them to receive the email to confirm their subscription so I applied the hack to the code. On my subscribers on mailchimp it says I have 161 subscribers which is right for my joomla users but in the CMC joomla component under Users it doesn't show any of my users listed there - is the right?

Another question I have is - I don't intend to use any sign up to the newsletter - will new Joomla users be signed up automatically then? Also if a user is deleted on Joomla are they automatically deleted from the newsletter users list?

Cheers
Irene