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The Google sheet integration was supposed to scan for newly added rows every 60 min and import contacts to the automated email drip. But new contacts added a day ago did not appear in the queue. What settings do I need to make to ensure this flow is automated? Thanks

Hi All, I’m sporadically getting 500 errors when subscribing contacts to a list. Even though the API returns a 500 error, the contact is still subscribed. Any ideas on how this can be fixed or what’s causing it? I opened a ticket with Support, but they’re not hip on helping when it can’t consistently be replicated. 2024-10-08 14:40:31,333 - INFO - Subscribe Data: {‘contactList’: {‘list’: ‘17’, ‘contact’: ‘28438’, ‘status’: 1}} 2024-10-08 14:40:31,333 - DEBUG - Starting new HTTPS connection (1): redacted.api-us1.com:443 2024-10-08 14:40:32,642 - DEBUG - https://redacted.api-us1.com:443 “POST /api/3/contactLists HTTP/1.1” 500 0 2024-10-08 14:40:32,642 - ERROR - HTTP error occurred: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://redacted.api-us1.com/api/3/contactLists See screenshot: 2024-10-08_14-52-07 - TechSmith Screencast - TechSmith Screencast

Message variables are a body of text that you can assign a personalization tag to for use in any campaign email (including those sent from an automation). They are similar to custom fields, but not the same: Whereas custom fields pull values from contact records, message variables pull one constant value from a single place within ActiveCampaign. There are lots of ways to use a Message Variable in your campaigns. For example, you can use a variable for an email signature or a variable for a disclaimer. There is no limit to the number of Message Variables you can create. To access Message Variables, navigate to Campaigns in the left menu then Click “Message Variables.” Then, follow these instructions below to create a Message Variable: Type the Message Variable name into the “Personalization Name” field. The Message Variable name is internal only and should be something that you recognize. For example, if you want to create a signature message variable, you can call this “Signature.”

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Hi, is it possible to send the same email multiple times through automation? I can’t find the option, so for now I copy the e-mail a few times and then have it sent with a schedule on the desired date. It could be much easier with an automation but this only works via certain triggers, sending an e-mail is not one of them. Or am I missing the point?

Recently we received several emails from prospects of us that say our websites arent safe and they dont want to click on it - it seems that active campaign got on to a “not safe” list. This is a very bad situation as most customers wont get in touch with us and just close the site and will never access it. Did you also get emails like that? What can I/we do about it ?

i am lately receiving emails from the emails address like this. no-reply+mywebsite.com.0@myactivecampaign.com why not from noreply@mywebsite.com

Hello. I need your help. I want to set an automation. I have multiple pipelines. Some contacts are placed in all pipelines, some are placed in just couple of them. Every pipeline is managed by a diferent user. I created a tags one for each pipeline and these tags will be given to contact when the contacts deal status is changed to WON. I would like to set an automation that the contact will receive a specific tag that depends on in which pipeline the contact deal status in changed to WON. Example: contact deal status is changed to WON in pipeline no. 3 - this contact will receive a tag3. Example 2: contact deal status is changed to WON in pipeline no. 5 - this contact will receive a tag5. How can I do that. Thanks for your help, Iztok

Endpoint: /contacts/{contactID}/contactAutomations?limit=20&orders[lastdate]=DESC Is there a way to filter by seriesid or automation (id)? Thanks.

Hello. I need your help. I want to set an automation. I have 5 diferent pipelines. Some contacts/deals are placed in all 5 pipelines, some are placed in 4 pipelines, some contacts/deals are in 3 pipelines… Every pipeline is managed by different user. I would like to set the starting trigger of an automation when the contacts deal status changes to “LOST” in all pipelines which the contact is placed in. If the contacts deal status is WON or still OPEN in some of teh pipelines, the contact is not entering the automation. So the contact would start an automation the same moment when has the status LOST in all pipelines where the contact is placed in. How can I do that. Thanks for your help, Iztok

Not sure why this isn’t working all of sudden. Looking for help and not sure if this is worth the active campaign strategy session call. Person opts in via AC form OR fills out info leadpages, this subscribes them to a new list. new list sends an email immediately once someone subscribes and it simply isn’t delivering, not to spam, no where. Any new automation I create now simply doesn’t work. Deliverability to existing subscribers isn’t an issue. Please help!!!

Hi everyone, I’m experiencing several issues with my account, and I could really use some help! My campaigns are not being sent—they stay stuck in the draft folder no matter how many times I try to share them. I deleted enough contacts to get back under our contact limit, but my campaigns are still not going out. Now I’m blocked from deleting and importing contacts, so I can’t manage my lists properly. Has anyone experienced something similar, or does anyone know how I can resolve these issues? Thank you so much for any advice or assistance you can offer!

How can I create a segment of people who engaged with your emails in the last 30,60,90 etc. days?

Hi, I’m curious to learn what integrations/methods folks are using to embed a poll in a newsletter. I saw the ActiveCampaign article that shares they recommend a link to a form. Our intention is: -Embedding a short poll feature in our newsletter and having the data funnel easily into the contact’s profile. We prefer to try embedding it to make it as easy as possible for people to quickly engage. -We’re wondering if anyone uses an integration/application for this and has good success? Sincerely, Jennifer

New user here 👋 I’m sending out our first campaign as a test email, and I keep getting an alert saying “Attention needed(Was previously declined from sending.)” Does anyone know why it’s being declined? Or what I’m doing wrong? This campaign was only going to five people within our office.

Hello - we download form submission data into MS excel. But the export has a whole heap of irrelevant data. Is there a way to just download the form data?

Hello - we invite people to lots of webinars (hosted in MS Teams). Our current set up is send out an email with a form. They complete the form. When they do this they get a tag ‘registered for XYZ webinar’. In another automation we set up an email with the MS Teams joining details which is sent to everyone with the tag. Active Campaign doesn’t appear to allow trigger emails based on checkbox selection (if there are more than one webinar being promoted) so we have to use tags and conditional content to determine which joining details they get based on what they sign up for. Anyone, know a better way on doing the above? Also, when they get the joining details, we can’t seem to add an ‘add to calendar’ button which would then add the webinar to their calendar. Anyone know how to do this?

Is it somehow possible to track website activity if a 1:1 email is sent to contact person? What I am trying to archieve is a contact persons website activity before they have received a “normal” email from AC (e.g. an email from a campaign). The scenario would be that a sales person sends a 1:1 email to a contact person. The email includes a link to our website. Goal is that the contact person clicks the 1:1 email and browses differenct pages on our website. And it is tracking of this website activity I want to capture. Is that possible? So far I have only been able to get this working if the contact have previously recieved an email from a campaign. / Henrik

Hey everyone, We’ve been having an issue recently with ActiveCampaign where our mailouts are consistently ending up in the spam folder, particularly in Gmail, even when we send a test email. We’ve double-checked our domain authentication, reputation and spam rate, everything looks fine. We have also tested different content, but no luck so far. If a template has at least one image, it goes to Spam. We’ve been using AC for almost 3 years already and never had this happened before. Is anyone else experiencing this? Any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated!

The email from AC this morning says the new Automation Builder is finally Live. Not in my account or any of my clients’ accounts. When is this going Live?

Hello. I have two automations, one is when a form is started and the other when it is completed. Starting Tag and Completed Tags are applied by the form stages. When it is completed, I want to end the Started Automation and trigger the Completed Automation. I’m thinking I can either check the condition in the Started Automation to see if the Tag is still true, OR I can force the Start Automation to End when the Completed Automation triggers. Is there a preferred way to handle this?

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I have a main automation sending out an e-mail sequence to prospects that come in via a tagged trigger, and then once each e-mail is sent out a mini-automation runs to tell me if they have clicked in a link in that e-mail. the mini-automation just has the trigger “Clicks in an e-mail”. This used to work fine, but now sends me an alert that the contact has clicked in the e-mail instantly the mail has gone out. Testing shows that the contacts are not even opening the mails yet the trigger is activating. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

ActiveCampaign people - new Segments have landed ! And this is where your old Segments are hiding… (because I know you’ll be having a minor heart attack if you think your carefully crafted Segments are gone!) ➡️n ew Segments have gone live in ActiveCampaign accounts 😱 all your old Segments seem to have vanished… 🎉 but hooray - old Segments are still there - phew!! 📘 old Segments are now called List Segments (Legacy) 📧 and you can still use them - for as long as you like - to send Campaign emails - also phew! IMPORTANT BIT: 🔎 type the Segment name in the Send To search bar to use an old Segment when you send a Campaign I have more to come on this - the new Segments are honestly fabulous time saving things - but first, let’s keep everyone moving with the Segments they already have.

I am currently in the process of connecting two forms on our Webflow site to our API and I was wondering if anyone has done this before? I have an email subscribe form that collects just the email field and a lead gen form that collects first name and email. Any and all advice and tips are extremely appreciated. Thank you!