Setting up a double opt-in process

Create and publish a landing page so that the visitors can register and subscribe. This landing page will be available from a website. Visitors who fill in and submit this landing page will be stored in the database but ‘blacklisted', in order not to receive any communication before the final validation (see Managing blacklisting in Campaign).

Create and send automatically the opt-in email, with a confirmation link. This email will target population who submitted the landing page. It will be based on an email template which allows to target ‘opt-out’ profiles.

Redirect to a confirmation landing page. This final landing page will propose a confirmation button: the visitors has to click it. You can design a welcome email to be sent as confirmation is done, and for example add a special offer in the email for new recipients.

Design a new landing page based on the Profile acquisition (acquisition) template. Enter the label 'CONFIRMATION'.

If you need to use services, you can also use the Subscription (sub) template.

Edit the landing page properties and under the Access and loading section, unselect the option Authorize unidentified visitors , select Preload visitor data (this one is not mandatory).

In the Job > Form parameter mapping section, click Add an element and enter the following context path:

/context/profile/blackList

Set the value to false and click Add .

This context removes the blacklist field, in order to be able to send emails. We will see later that the first landing page was setting this field to true before confirmation, to prevent from sending emails to non-confirmed profiles.

Customize the content of the landing page: you can display personalized data and change the label of the confirmation button to ‘Click here to confirm my subscription’ for example.

Adapt the content of the confirmation page to inform your subscribers that they are now registered.

Test and publish the landing page.

Create an event, from the Marketing plans > Transactional messages > Event configuration menu, accessible from the Adobe Campaign logo, and enter the label 'CONFIRM'.

Select the Profile targeting dimension and click Create .

In the Fields section, click Create element and add the email in the data structure to enable reconciliation.

In the Enrichment section, click Create element and select the target resource Profile . You can then map on the email in the Join definition section, or any other composite reconciliation key, depending on your needs.

If you need to use services, you can also add the serviceName .

Select Profile as the Targeting enrichment in the dropdown list.

Click Publish to publish the event.

From the Adobe Campaign logo, select Administration > Channels > Typologies and click Typologies .

Duplicate the out-of-box typology Transactional message on profile (mcTypologyProfile) .

Once duplication confirmed, edit the new typology and enter the label TYPOLOGY_PROFILE.

Click Save .

From the Adobe Campaign logo, select Marketing plans > Transactional messages and click Transactional messages .

Edit the CONFIRM email template and personalize it. You can upload an existing content or use an out-of-box template.

Add a link to the CONFIRMATION landing page, and click Confirm to save modifications.

Edit the email template properties. In the Advanced parameters > Preparation section, select the TYPOLOGY_PROFILE typology created before.

Save and publish the transactional message.

Design a new landing page based on the Profile acquisition (acquisition) template. Enter the label 'ACQUISITION'.

Edit the landing page properties: in the Job > Form parameter mapping section, click Add an element and enter the following context path:

/context/profile/blackList

and set the value to true.

This is mandatory to force blacklist and avoid sending messages to visitors who did not confirm their agreement. The validation of the CONFIRMATION landing page will set this field to false after confirmation.

In the Job > Specific actions section, select the option Start sending messages .

In the associated drop-down list, choose the CONFIRM transactional message template you created.

Customize the content of the landing page, depending on your brand and on data you need to acquire. You can display personalized data and change the label of the confirmation button to Confirm my subscription for example.

Customize the confirmation page to inform the new subscriber that he needs to validate his subscription.

Test and publish the landing page.