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ActiveCampaign

Update ActiveCampaign contacts with their unique share link and referrer information.

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Note: The ActiveCampaign integration is only available to users on a GrowSurf paid plan.

Sync with your ActiveCampaign List

Step 1: In Campaign Editor > 4. Options > Integrations, open the ActiveCampaign integration card and enter your ActiveCampaign API URL and key ().

IMPORTANT: Because the GrowSurf data sync to ActiveCampaign only occurs after you have connected with the integration, it is imperative to connect with the integration BEFORE importing participants. to see remedy options if you have already imported participants into your campaign but would like to sync their GrowSurf data to ActiveCampaign.

Step 2: Once connected, choose the ActiveCampaign list that you want to automatically sync to. GrowSurf will add/update your ActiveCampaign contacts every time a new participant is added or referred to your referral campaign.

Step 3: Save changes. You should now see a screen that looks like the one below:

Step 4: Open your ActiveCampaign account, and go to Lists > Manage Fields.

For each GrowSurf custom field that you want available for ActiveCampaign contacts, you will need to manually click the edit icon next to each GrowSurf field (see screenshot below):

Then in the Customize the Field Options window, check the same ActiveCampaign list that you selected in the GrowSurf campaign editor.

Examples

Contact Fields

GrowSurf will automatically create these new contact fields for your ActiveCampaign Contacts.

Field Name

Personalization Tag

Type

Description

Example

GrowSurf Share URL

%GROWSURF_SHARE_URL%

TEXT

The participant's unique referral link

https://growsurf.com?grsf=absc123

GrowSurf Participant ID

%GROWSURF_PARTICIPANT_ID%

TEXT

The participant's unique GrowSurf ID

abc123

GrowSurf Referral Status

%GROWSURF_REFERRAL_STATUS_ID%

TEXT

The referral status of the participant*

CREDIT_PENDING

GrowSurf Participant First Name

%GROWSURF_PARTICIPANT_FIRST_NAME%

TEXT

The participant's first name

Bob

GrowSurf Participant Last Name

%GROWSURF_PARTICIPANT_LAST_NAME%

TEXT

The participant's last name

Loblaw

GrowSurf Referrer First Name

%GROWSURF_REFERRER_FIRST_NAME%

TEXT

The first name of the participant's referrer (if applicable)

Gavin

GrowSurf Referrer Last Name

%GROWSURF_REFERRER_LAST_NAME%

TEXT

The last name of the participant's referrer (if applicable)

Belson

GrowSurf Referrer Email

%GROWSURF_REFERRER_EMAIL%

TEXT

The email address of the participant's referrer (if applicable)

gavin.belson@hoolie.io

GrowSurf Total Referral Count

%GROWSURF_TOTAL_REFERRAL_COUNT%

NUMBER

The participant's all-time referral count

0

GrowSurf Monthly Referral Count

%GROWSURF_MONTHLY_REFERRAL_COUNT%

NUMBER

The participant's current month referral count

19

GrowSurf Prev Monthly Referral Count

%GROWSURF_PREV_MONTHLY_REFERRAL_COUNT%

NUMBER

The participant's previous month referral count

200

GrowSurf Next Milestone

%GROWSURF_NEXT_MILESTONE%

TEXT

You are only 2 referrals away from winning a free t-shirt!

GrowSurf Next Monthly Milestone

%GROWSURF_NEXT_MONTHLY_MILESTONE%

TEXT

You are only 2 referrals away from winning a free t-shirt!

GrowSurf Total Invite Count

%GROWSURF_TOTAL_INVITE_COUNT%

NUMBER

The participant's all-time invite count

112

GrowSurf Total Impression Count

%GROWSURF_TOTAL_IMPRESSION_COUNT%

NUMBER

The participant's all-time impression count

150

*GrowSurf Referral Status can be the following: CREDIT_PENDING (This participant must still trigger a referral for their referrer to receive referral credit), CREDIT_AWARDED (This participant triggered a referral and their referrer received referral credit), CREDIT_EXPIRED (This participant did not trigger the referral credit within the referral credit expiration window so their referrer did not receive referral credit).

You can use these personalization tags in your ActiveCampaign email templates. Whether you launch a new marketing campaign or have an automated drip campaign going on, make sure to always include %GROWSURF_SHARE_URL% in your emails to provoke your subscribers to make referrals!

Troubleshooting Tips

  • If the new participant isn't being added to ActiveCampaign, or if they are being added but their unique referral link isn't being synced to ActiveCampaign:

    • Activity logs will denote if a participant was added to ActiveCampaign or if they were failed to be added. (In the case of failure, GrowSurf will re-attempt to add them for 7 days).

  • If custom contact fields are not showing up for an ActiveCampaign contact:

  • If a GrowSurf custom field personalization tag is showing up as red when sending out an email:

For more help in editing custom contact fields, please see ActiveCampaign's help article .

to see different kinds of examples that you can copy/paste into your email templates.

To use them, you'll first need to .

The text for the next/upcoming milestone reward (only applies to milestone rewards. an example here)

The text for the next/upcoming monthly milestone reward (only applies to milestone rewards. )

You will need to make sure to explicitly make them available for your ActiveCampaign list in order to show up. .

You will need to make sure to explicitly make the custom field available for your ActiveCampaign list in order to use it as a personalization tag in your emails. .

How do I edit a custom contact field?
View our ActiveCampaign tutorials
follow step #4 in the instructions above
​Learn more about ActiveCampaign personalization tags here.​
Please reference step #4 in the instructions above
Please reference step #4 in the instructions above
See
See an example here
click here to get your ActiveCampaign API URL and key
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