Using Direct Add and a Manage Preferences Webform to Add Contacts and Their Preferences
A common use case for using direct add is to add contacts to your account and subsequently allow them to manage their message preferences and provide more information about themselves.
Procedure
What to do next
To summarize what is going on in this process,
a person accesses a page on your site containing the Direct Add img
tag. The information the person adds (email address, field data), along with the
list ID you specified in the img
tag, is passed back to your
account. The person is added to your account (making them a contact) and the welcome
message you specified above is sent to the contact. The welcome message contains a
cookie that holds data (a contact ID) that identifies the contact and a link to a
Manage Preferences webform. The contact then fills out the Manage Preferences
webform and their preference information is passed back to the application when they
submit the form. The application knows whose preferences to modify/change based on
the identifying contact information contained in the cookie. Below is an image
depicting a visual representation of the process described here:
