Changes to data provided to Mandrill for Order Tracking
Biagio Santoro
Currently the data provided to Mandrill for order tracking is the following:
- Customer Name
- Carrier Name (E.g. Royal Mail)
- Courier Service (E.g. 2nd Class)
- Tracking URL
- Courier Status (Created)
- Tracking Code
- Order Reference
A nice upgrade to tracking emails would be the ability of adding structured data, for example Gmail can show "Go-to Actions" to customers (for example track parcel).
There are required fields for these actions to show up, in regards to data that needs to be available in the email:
- Item/Items being delivered
- Delivery Address (Street, Locality/City, Region/County, Postcode)
- Carrier (Already Available)
- Order Number (Already Available)
- Merchant (Can be made by tagging your company name)
You can read more about it on: https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/markup/reference/go-to-action#track_action
Obviously not urgent by any means, but thought I'd suggest it to start a discussion!
Neil McQuillan - CEO Citrus-Lime
Ironically we are about to an email when an order is shipped to the core platform, it will take you to the accounts area so you can view your order, here is an example from a developers machine