dotdigital Connector Setup Guide | Server-Side Connectors

How it Works

The dotdigital connector provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.

Action Name	AudienceStream	EventStream
Trigger Campaign	✓	✓
Send Email Using a Triggered Campaign	✓	✓
Send SMS	✓	✓
Create or Update Contact	✓	✗
Add Contact to Address Book	✓	✗
Delete Contact from Address Book	✓	✗

Go to the Connector Marketplace and add a new connector. Read the Connector Overview article for general instructions on how to add a connector.

After adding the connector, configure the following settings:

API Username
- Username for your API user.
- To get started using the API, you must first create an API user.
- These API user credentials (username/password) are required to authenticate each operation/method call and to ensure that you are connected to the correct account.
- For setup information, see the following vendor documentation: Getting Started with the API
API Password
- Password for your API user.
Region ID
- Region ID to be included in every API endpoint.
- You can find your API endpoint under Settings > Access > API users.

Click Next or go to the Actions tab. This is where you configure connector actions.

This section describes how to set up parameters and options for each action.

Parameter	Description
Campaign ID	The ID of the campaign, which needs to be included within the request body.
Address Book ID	The Address Book ID the campaign is to be sent to. You must specify either an Address Book ID or a Contact ID.
Contact ID	The Contact ID the campaign is to be sent to. You must specify either an Address Book ID or a Contact ID.
Send Date	The date and time at which you want the campaign to be sent.

Parameter	Description
To Address	The email address of the recipient.
Campaign ID	The ID of the triggered campaign. For more information on this endpoint, see the following vendor documentation: Send transactional email using a triggered campaign.
Personalization Values	Each personalization value is a key-value pair.

Parameter	Description
Telephone Number	The mobile number of the contact.
Message	The SMS message to be sent to your contact’s mobile phone.

Parameter	Description
Email	The email address of the contact. For more information on this endpoint, see the following vendor documentation: Create contact.
Data Fields	Each contact data field is a key-value pair.
Opt-In Type	The opt-in type of the contact.
Email Type	The email type of the contact.
Contact Id	The ID of the contact. This must be set to update a contact.

Parameter	Description
Address Book ID	The ID of the Address Book. For more information on this endpoint, see the following vendor documentation: Add contact to address book.
Email	The email address of the contact. For more information on this endpoint, see the following vendor documentation: Create contact.
Data Fields	Each contact data field is a key/value pair.
Opt-In Type	The opt-in type of the contact.
Email Type	The email type of the contact.

Parameter	Description
Address Book ID	The ID of the Address Book. For more information on this endpoint, see the following vendor documentation: Delete contact from address book.
Contact ID	The ID of the contact to be deleted.