Data syncing: List mapping - Magento 1
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Written by Gareth Burroughes
Updated over a week ago

Important

Changing the lists you want your contacts to sync to after you've already synced contacts to Dotdigital resets all the contacts in Magento to re-sync to those new lists.

Map Magento contacts to your lists

  1. Create three new lists for customers, subscribers, and guests in one of the following ways:

    • Create the new lists in Dotdigital.

    • Create the new lists in the connector.

      1. Go to System > Configuration > DOTMAILER > Sync Settings

      2. Select Create Address Book.
        Address book is the previous name for a list in Dotdigital

      3. Enter a name for your new list.

      4. You can also select the visibility by choosing whether it's publicly viewable or private; making it public means contacts can be able to join or unsubscribe from it through a preference centre.

      5. Select Create New Address Book.

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    If you created your address books in Dotdigital, return to your Magento admin panel and go to System > Configuration > DOTMAILER > Sync Settings.

  2. Under Address Book Mapping, you can use the dropdowns to select the appropriate list to map your customers, newsletter subscribers, and guests to. You can select from any existing lists, or any new lists that you've created, either in Dotdigital and the connector.

Stop non-subscribed email addresses from being synchronised to Dotdigital

If you want to synchronise customers and guests only if they have subscribed to your Magento newsletter, expand the Allow non-subscribed contacts to be imported drop-down menu and select No, then select Save Config.

Magento confirms that the settings have been saved and you will have successfully mapped to your Dotdigital lists.

Customers

Contacts synced to your customer list are registered customers of your Magento site that have a customer account. All contacts within this list will have the additional contact data field information populated against them that you map in data mapping.

Newsletter subscribers

Contacts synced to your subscribers list are subscribed contacts found in the default Magento Newsletter Subscribers table/report. We only sync the email address for these contacts. However, if you have newsletter subscribers who are also registered customers then they have the additional contact data fields populated. When a subscriber on your website unsubscribes on your Magento site, we remove them from this list.

Guests

If you have the order sync enabled, it means that we add the email address from an order placed by a guest who isn't a customer or a subscriber to your guests list. We only sync the email address for these contacts. However, if you have guests who are also registered customers then they have the additional contact data fields populated.

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