API Signup Form ==> Custom Welcome Email?

Todd Plants

Hi all - We've got a sign up form that leverages the API up and running here:

http://www.usglc.org/vetstest/vfsp.html

Now, we'd like to add a custom welcome message to folks who sign up through this form. Is that possible?

I see in the documentation, that I can trigger a welcome message using the "no_welcome" parameter in the API request, but there doesn't seem to be anything there about specifying exactly which auto-responder is triggered. Does this flag just send out the default welcome message? Is there a way to choose one welcome message for this form in particular, without sending that same content to all new signups from any source?

Any help would be obliged.

thanks

todd

Noah Cooper

Hey Todd,

Very nice job with the sign-up form! The best option to trigger a unique welcome message is to use the "source" parameter on the API request to set a unique source code for constituents created through this form. (This is a good idea in general!) Then you can use a Query on source code and a daily Recurring Email to welcome new constituents who sign up through the form. Of course this will only give you constituents who were newly created through the form. If you'd like to send a welcome message to everyone who signs the form, even if they already existed in Constituent360, you could use a Group or Interest instead of a source code.