Every 15 minutes

Post Mailchimp store orders to Slack

New orders from the store connected to Mailchimp show up in Slack within 15 minutes.

Runs: Every 15 minutes
Apps: Mailchimp
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, check my connected Mailchimp store for new orders and post each one to #orders in Slack with the customer and total.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

When a store connects to Mailchimp's ecommerce features, every purchase that is tracked there feeds your segments and revenue reports. But the people who care about a new order, the owner, the fulfilment lead or the account manager, rarely sit in Mailchimp. They find out through a separate notification from the shop platform, if at all, and Mailchimp-attributed sales go unseen.

Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime lists the orders Mailchimp has received since its last check and posts each new one to your chosen channel, then saves a checkpoint so the same order is never announced twice. If nothing new arrived, it stays quiet.

It is handy for small shops that want a feel for sales in near real time, and for marketers who need to see which orders show up after a campaign goes out.

What you get out of it

Campaign sales noticed within minutes
Send a promotion and you can watch orders appear shortly after. If nothing arrives in the first hour, you learn that the link or discount code is broken while you can still fix it.
A check that Mailchimp tracking works
An order shows up only if the store sync is working. If you know orders happened but no alerts arrive, you find out about a broken ecommerce connection long before month-end reports look strange.
Whoever fulfils orders hears first
Posting to a team channel puts the order in front of the person packing boxes or booking services. They no longer wait for a daily export, which shortens the time from purchase to shipment.
No double announcements
The checkpoint remembers the last order seen, so each purchase is reported exactly once even if a run is delayed. Your channel stays readable instead of filling with repeats. That keeps the numbers trustworthy for later reporting.
A lightweight sales feed for the team
Seeing real orders scroll by is motivating, and it helps support staff recognize a customer's purchase when they write in an hour later, without logging into the store admin. It makes the store feel alive for everyone.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime checks your Mailchimp store for new orders.
It only looks at orders placed since its last check, so none is posted twice.
Each new order goes to your #orders Slack channel with the order number, amount and customer email.

Before it runs live

Connect Mailchimp

What you get

RunsEvery 15 minutes

Post Mailchimp store orders to Slacktoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #ordersOrder 1043: USD 129.00 from dana@northwind.example

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Mailchimp steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_e_commerce_order_alert.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials, notify, state, report_fetched

STORE_ID = "STORE_ID"

def mailchimp(method, path, **kw):
    key = credentials.secret("MAILCHIMP_API_KEY")
    r = http.request(method, f"https://{key.split('-')[-1]}.api.mailchimp.com/3.0{path}", auth=("clickruntime", key), **kw)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json() if r.content else None

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    since = state.get("since")
    params = {"count": 100}
    if since:
        params["since_processed_at"] = since
    orders = mailchimp("GET", f"/ecommerce/stores/{STORE_ID}/orders", params=params)["orders"]
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    new = [o for o in orders if o["id"] not in seen]
    report_fetched(len(new))
    if not new:
        return {"new": 0}
    for o in new:
        notify.slack(f"Order {o['id']}: {o['currency_code']} {o['order_total']:,.2f} from {o['customer'].get('email_address')}",
                     channel="#orders")
    state.set("seen", [o["id"] for o in orders])
    state.set("since", max(o["processed_at_foreign"] for o in new))
    return {"new": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it show every order in my shop or only those Mailchimp knows about?

Only orders that have been sent to Mailchimp's ecommerce store sync are visible. Purchases that never reach Mailchimp, for example because the integration was off at that moment, will not generate an alert. Check your store sync if an order is missing.

How quickly will I hear about a new order?

Orders are checked every 15 minutes, so the delay is at most about a quarter of an hour plus the time your store takes to sync the order to Mailchimp. It is near real time, not instant.

What does each alert contain?

Each alert carries the order details Mailchimp holds, such as the order identifier, the customer and the total. Which fields are shown can be chosen when you set it up, so you can keep customer data out of a busy shared channel.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

On a schedule