Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation’s Integration Journey
The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation is recognized for its heritage, community strengthening, and support for its members. They run their programs for both school students and adults, improving their quality of life.
Their bussiness is depend on trust and relationships with donors, members, and their subscribers. That’s why email marketing played a very big role in their brand communication, sharing updates, campaigns, and stories.
For this, they relied on Mailchimp while their customer management was handled on Salesforce. But the disconnection between the two platforms was causing them serious operational challenges.
The Challenges Faced by the CCHF
The CCHF was facing serious problems in handling the data across the two platforms. The disconnect between the two platforms was creating confusion and slowing down their operations.
With this, their challenges become difficult to manage:
- Subscriber Matching: When a new subscriber joined through Mailchimp, Salesforce couldn’t decide what to do next.
- Duplicate Records: When the same email appeared under multiple contacts tied to different accounts. Salesforce could not choose the right record that led to duplication.
- Multiple Contacts: Contacts that belonged to the same account needed logic to know which contact should be updated.
- Lead Duplicacy: New leads were often created without checking whether a similar lead already existed. This cluttered the CRM and made reporting harder.
- Rigid Data Mapping: Field mapping between Mailchimp and Salesforce was fixed in code. Any future change requires development effort, slowing down internal teams.
A Clear Vision for Clean Data and Better Decisions
Choftez Chaim Heritage Foundation’s goal was to build a system that can think before adding new data.
They want to decrease their team’s effort in the data entry tasks and want to build a people-focused system:
- Create logic to match the subscribers with the right contact.
- Add subscribers as new leads only when needed.
- Flag duplicates to improve data accuracy.
- They want to keep Salesforce clean and reliable.
- Wanted flexibility in field mapping without constant development support.
Above all, they wanted confidence that every email subscriber was connected to the right record.
Why the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation chose Webkul?
They turned to Webkul to design a solution that works in real-world scenarios that they were facing.
Webkul approached the problem by understanding how the foundation worked with contacts, donors, and accounts. Furthermore, they came up with some rules that Salesforce could follow every time a subscriber arrives from Mailchimp.
How Webkul Built a Purpose-Driven Integration
CCHF’s vision was to build a smart system that requires smart integration. That’s why Webkul used its ChimpConnect Connector that handled even the complex tasks with clarity.
- Smart Email Matching: The team built a smart check on new subscribers against multiple email fields in Salesforce. When the match is found, the contact is corrected, and if not, then it creates a new lead.
- Duplicate Handling: When the same email exists in different account then Salesforce creates a new lead. After that, it marks it as a duplicate for a human review.
- Account-Contact Selection: If multiple contacts belong to the same account, Salesforce checks preferred emails and primary contact status before updating the right record.
- Lead Validation: Before creating any new lead, Salesforce checks for an existing one with the same email. If found, it updates instead of duplicating.
- Flexible Field Mapping: Webkul enabled package-based field mapping. This allows the foundation to control how Mailchimp data flows into Salesforce without touching the code.
The result was a system that behaves consistently, even when the data is not perfect.
The Impact: Confidence, Control, and Cleaner Data
After implementing Webkul’s customized solution, CCHF saw massive improvements:
- Salesforce now shows accurate records that are dependable.
- The confusion with the duplicate records has reduced.
- Teams can now spend more time engaging with members than fixing the data.
- Clear rules make the subscriber data more reliable.
- CRM shows clear data with trustworthy information for marketing strategy.
Conclusion
Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation continues its mission to educate and preserve its heritage. Now, they have a smart system that finally works in the way they always wanted.
Webkul’s tailored Salesforce Mailchimp integration services built a foundation for clean data and clear logic.
If your organization struggles with disconnected systems or unreliable CRM data, Webkul can help design an integration that fits how you actually work.
Reach out to support@webkul.com or raise a ticket to start your integration journey.