About: Carlis Collins

Thank you Cristian for your help, but what you are telling me s that S2 does not work with MailChimp; not really. Of course, if all I want is name and e-mail address, it may work. Of course if I want to write my own code to make it work… anything is possible.

But if I had known that S2 was not fully integrated with MC, I would not have purchased it. I thought you had solved the problem, based on your marketing literature.

To use MailChimp, of course I need to segment my lists by all kinds of criteria — not just name and e-mail. Thus I have to get all of my registration data, such as city, age, gender… into MailMonkey. And when a member changes their info — in WordPress/BuddyPress — the MailChimp database needs to update accordingly. Of course…

May I ask, what e-mailer/autoresponders are other S2 users implementing? Surely there is something that works out of the box — I do not have the time or the patience to write my own API routines.

S2 needs some mail management program/partner that uses the WordPress database, directly — maintaining two databases is just crazy. Requiring members to register twice… crazy. Keeping two database in sync…!

I humbly ask: How do I use S2 to manage a real business, with thousands of members? I need a solid solution that is not a hack, a system that integrates with a solid autoresponder that does not require my members to register twice for two different databases. What am I missing? I cannot be the first person to run into this difficulty.

S2 gets high ratings from users — but I cannot agree. So perhaps I am doing something wrong. Maybe the registration flow I want to implement is just not possible.

Can you advise me as to a how to implement a reasonable flow? There must be a way.

What I want seems so simple and obvious:

1. A single registration flow with NO double opt in — not needed for my members. (I can live with double opt-in, but why subject my members to this? I know MailMonkey tries to prevent spammers — so be it. I am not a spammer. I want to control my registration flow, so maybe I need a different autoresponder…)

2. When a member registers — and enters their full information (location, age, gender, specialty…) — they are automatically entered into my autoresoponder, with no additional, secondary, registration. And they get IMMEDIATE access to their member benefits/info.

3. All Members (free and paid) are added to my mail list — to opt out, they simply cancel their membership.

Is this possible with S2, without me writing my own code?
Must I force my members to register once for membership, then register again for my mail list?

I appreciate any advice you can offer. S2 is really well done in every other way — but integration with MailMonkey…

You can see my site at:
http://www.allianceforhealing.com