Will RED work with mailchimp?

Yes, it will work nicely with MailChimp.

Basically in RED you are going to create your email. You then export that to an HTML file and you can then use it with any service you like. All the styles are inline so the HTML has everything you need. We do not have any direct ties to 3rd party services yet, but that will be on the roadmap to include later. However it is fully tied into our S-Drive platform for easy testing and sending.

Hi Scott,

I have a similar question.
I'm considering purchasing the Business edition of RED for our company here in the UK. We currently use iContact.com and I create our mailshots and paste the html code into the iContact email creation tool, then send them out to up to around 22,000 customers.

I like the look of RED as a much better way of creating emails that are fully responsive and viewable on all email clients (which ours aren't currently).

So, my question is; do you know if the code generated from RED will work ok on the iContact platform? It does seem to 'strip out' things it doesn't like from time to time (probably my poor coding as I am a designer rather than coder!).

Cheers for any advice.

Dean.

Please see Bob's response to a similar question here. I am sure the same applies to iContact.

http://www.coffeecup.com/forums/respons … post244885

Thanks, I guess it should be ok with iContact in that case.

When using RED with MailChimp, are the typical head/foot items (click to view online, click to view images, unsubscribe) created in RED or are these scripts provided by MailChimp?

Some EMSPs add a (branded) footer message depending on the settings / account level. Everything else, like using specific variables, is customizable in Responsive Email Designer

OK, will continue to muddle through

Hello there

Just had a look at mailchimp... it seems to have its own designer and templates.
As someone thinking of using better emails, what does RED add then that mailchimp doesn't have? I've a few CC progs I use regularly and know they're good, but struggling to find out the big plus points for RED if we are encouraged to use mailchimp for sending anyway.
Thank you
Steve

Good point Steve. We initially had a comparison table to explain this in detail, but we decided to focus on what RED can do (not on what others can't).

Now, since you asked....a very very very important difference is that RED gives you detailed design control over the 'mobile' versions of the email. With over 50% of emails opened on mobile devices, being able to control and improve the mobile user experience clearly is crucial. The width slider, custom breakpoints, ability to stack content and hide elements, plus a few other things, are unique to RED and key to designing responsive emails.

In addition, if you look at the Responsive Email Designer feature table, you will see a large number of features that allow for designing (better) emails in general. Many of these design controls can't be found in the editors of the email senders such as Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor. These editors are (overly) simplified, to an extent where even defining a full width background color for a specific section is not possible.

Examples of design elements unique to RED include full-width rows, fluid layouts, customizable email widths, web fonts integration, background images, detailed element positioning, and shadow effects. There's a few more differences, but they all come down to being able to creating email experiences that before RED was released, were only available to hand coders. Considering the importance of email marketing, something that many companies have been doing (mostly outsourced to experts).

Now RED saves time and allows for more design iterations and flexibility. Hope this helps!