Mass emails with individual coupon codes

Question

I'm trying to send email coupon codes to a list of different people. The idea is that they:

Go to the landing page
Input their email
Receive an email with a coupon code for a coffee shop

We're using Mailchimp, and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to do this. I've only done design and some JavaScript development, so I'm not even sure where to begin. I was thinking something along the lines of:

Collect all the submitted emails in a csv file
Purchase the bulk of coupon codes
Use PHP (SendGrid or Swiftmailer or something) to match up the list of codes with the emails and send them out.

Any thoughts on the best way to do this?

You could use a database. – Funk Forty Niner Nov 23 '16 at 19:16 — Funk Forty Niner, Nov 23 '16 at 19:16
You should use a database. – Jay Blanchard Nov 23 '16 at 19:31 — Jay Blanchard, Nov 23 '16 at 19:31

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '16 at 20:02

You can use MailChimps merge tags

The process looks as follows:

generate unique coupon codes, you can use an online generator
use MailChimp API to create merge fields
assign codes through this merge field with members endpoint
design and run a new campaign that includes the new merge tag which will be replaced with a unique code

You can also use a coupon infrastructure API like this one Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder

Mass emails with individual coupon codes

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