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Elastic Email

The Elastic Email modules allow you to create, update, retrieve, list, and delete the contacts, lists, campaigns, and emails in your Elastic Email account.

Getting Started with Elastic Email

Prerequisites

  • An Elastic Email account

In order to use Elastic Email with Make, it is necessary to have an Elastic Email account. If you do not have one, you can create an Elastic Email account at elasticemail.com/account#/create-account.

Note

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Make scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

Connecting Elastic Email to Make

To connect your Elastic Email account to Make you need to obtain the API Key from your Elastic Email account and insert it in the Create a connection dialog in the Make module.

  1. Log in to your Elastic Email account.

  2. Click Your User Name > Settings > API > Accept Consent > Create API Key. Enter a name for the key, select the permissions, and click Create. Copy the API key to your clipboard.

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  3. Go to Make and open the Elastic Email module's Create a connection dialog.

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  4. In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

  5. In the API Key field, enter the API key copied in step 2.

  6. Select whether you want to establish the connection for private branding and enter the custom domain. For example, <yourdomain.cz(uk, etc.)>. You can find at My Account > Settings > Domains.

  7. Click Continue.

The connection has been established.

Contacts

Triggers when a new contact is added to the list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

List Name

Select the contact list name whose contacts you want to watch.

Limit

Set the maximum number of contacts Make should return during one scenario execution cycle.

Adds a new contact and optionally to one of your lists.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Email

Enter the email address of the contact.

Public Account ID

Enter the Public Account ID for the contact. This is a public key that provides limited access to the contact. You can find the public key at My Account > Security.

First Name

Enter the first name of the contact.

Last Name

Enter the last name of the contact.

List Name

Add the contact list to which you want to add the contact. You can add multiple contacts.

Consent Tracking

Select whether you want to allow the consent tracking for the contact.

Send Activation

Select whether you want to send the activation email to the contact once you create the contact.

Activation Template

Select the activation template to send to the contact as an activation email.

Notify Email

Add the email address to which contact's subscription notification emails will be sent.

Activation Return URL

Enter the URL address to which contact will be redirected after activation.

Already Active URL

Enter the URL address to which contact is redirected if already subscribed.

Consent Date

Enter the date on which the contact is provided consent.

Consent IP

Enter the IP address of consent to send this contact from your email.

Return URL

Enter the URL address to navigate to after account creation.

Source

Select the option in which the contact details are uploaded:

  • Delivery API

  • Manual Input

  • File Upload

  • Web Form

  • Contact API

  • Verification API

  • File Verification API

Source URL

Enter the URL address from which the request for creating the contact was sent.

Loads detailed contact information.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Email Address

Select the email address of the contact whose details you want to retrieve.

Updates a selected contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Email Address

Select the email address of the contact whose details you want to update.

First Name

Enter the first name of the contact.

Last Name

Enter the last name of the contact.

Clear the Rest of Fields

When selected, resets the fields which are omitted in this request.

Custom Fields

Add the custom fields for the contact:

Field Name

Enter the field name. For example, the company name.

Field Type

Select the field type:

  • Number

  • Text

  • Datetime

Value

Enter the field value.

Permanently deletes the contacts provided. You can provide either a qualified rule or a list of emails.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Delete Criterion

Select the option through which you want to delete the contacts:

  • Email

  • Rule

Email Address

Add the email addresses of the contact whom you want to delete.

Rule

Select the option to filter the contacts whom you want to delete based on the specified query.

Searches the contacts or lists them all.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Sort

Select the option to sort the contacts you want to list:

  • Date Added Ascending

  • Date Added Descending

  • Date Updated Ascending

  • Date Updated Descending

Rule

Select the option to filter the contacts whom you want to list based on the specified query.

Limit

Set the maximum number of contacts Make should return during one scenario execution cycle.

Manually adds or updates a contact to unsubscribed status.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Email Address

Select the email address of the contact whom you want to unsubscribe.

Lists

Creates a new list based on the filtering rule or list of IDs.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Create Empty List

Select whether you want to create an empty list.

List Name

Enter a name for the list.

Emails

Add the email addresses of the contacts whom you want to add to the list.

All Contacts

Select to add all the contacts from your account to the list.

Allow Unsubscribe

Select to allow to unsubscribe the contacts from the list.

Rule

Select the option to filter the contacts whom you want to add to the list based on the specified query.

Gets detailed information about a specific list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

List Name

Select the list whose details you want to retrieve.

Updates an existing list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

List Name

Select the list whose details you want to update.

New List Name

Enter a new name for the list.

Allow Unsubscribe

Select whether you want to allow the contacts in the list to unsubscribe.

Track History

Select whether you want to track the history of the list.

Deletes a list and removes all the contacts from it (does not delete contacts.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

List Name

Select the list you want to delete.

Searches the lists or lists them all.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

From

Enter the date to list the lists that are created or updated on or after the specified date.

To

Enter the date to list the lists that are created or updated on or before the specified date.

Limit

Set the maximum number of lists Make should return during one scenario execution cycle.

Campaigns

Triggers when a new campaign is sent.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

Limit

Set the maximum number of campaigns Make should return during one scenario execution cycle.

Emails

Submits the emails.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

To

Add the recipient's email addresses to whom you want to send the email.

Lists

Add the contact lists to which you want to send the email.

Segments

Add segments to which you want to send the email. Insert 0 for all Active contacts.

From

Enter the email address from which you want to send the email.

From Name

Enter the name that appears in the email.

Subject

Enter the subject line of the email.

Template ID

Select the email Template ID. The templates must be created in your account.

Attachments

Add the attachments to the email.

Sender

Enter the sender's email address to which you want to send the email.

Sender Name

Enter the sender's name.

Reply to

Enter the email address to which the recipient can reply to your email.

Reply to Name

Enter the name to which the recipient can reply to the email.

Track Clicks

Select whether you want to track the clicks fro the email.

Track Opens

Select whether you want to track when the email is opened.

Is Transactional

Select whether this is a transactional email.

Message to

Add the email address that appears in the To field of the email. This field is ignored if the To parameter is also provided.

Visible to all other recipients of the message as TO MIME header.

Message from

Enter the email address that appears in MIME header.

Message From Name

Enter name of the sender that appears in MIME header.

Message BCC

Add the recipient's email address that you want to mention in the BCC field.

Message CC

Add the recipient's email address that you want to mention in the CC field.

Body AMP

Enter the AMP email message text.

Body HTML

Enter the email message text in HTML format.

Body Text

Enter the email body text.

Channel

Enter the Channel ID that can be used for reporting. The ID can be of maximum 191 characters.

Charset

Enter the text value of charset encoding. For example, iso-8859-1, windows-1251, utf-8, us-ascii, windows-1250

Charset Body AMP

Enter the charset for body AMP MIME part.

Charset Body HTML

Enter the charset for body HTML MIME part.

Charset Body Text

Enter the charset for body text MIME part.

Data Source

Enter the name or ID of the previously uploaded file. It must be a CSV list of recipients.

Encoding Type

Select the encoding type for the email.

Merge Source Filename

Enter the file name of the attachments which is a CSV list of recipients.

Pool Name

Enter the name of your custom IP Pool to be used in the email sending process.

Post Back

Enter an optional header returned in notifications.

Time Off Set Minutes

Enter the number of the minutes after which the email must be sent. You can send up to 1 year (524160 minutes).

UTM Campaign

Enter the utm campaign marketing parameter appended to each link in the campaign.

UTM Content

Enter the utm content marketing parameter appended to each link in the campaign.

UTM Medium

Enter the utm medium marketing parameter appended to each link in the campaign.

UTM Source

Enter the utm source marketing parameter appended to each link in the campaign.

Other

Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Elastic Email account.

URL

Enter a path relative to https://api.elasticemail.com/. For example: /v2/account/profileoverview

Note

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Elastic Email API Documentation.

Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET

to retrieve information for an entry.

POST

to create a new entry.

PUT

to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH

to make a partial entry update.

DELETE

to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Body

Enter the body content for your API call.

The following API call returns all lists from your Elastic Email account:

URL:

/v2/list/list

Method:

GET

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Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body > data.

In our example, 4 lists were returned:

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