Drip

Drip is an ecommerce email and SMS marketing platform. Datafly Signal records your events against Drip subscribers by email (POST /v2/{account_id}/events) to drive workflows, lead scoring and campaigns. Recording an event for a new email creates the subscriber.

Why route Drip through Datafly Signal

  • Events come from your server, not the browser. They reach Drip even when a tracker blocker or a failed page unload would have dropped a client-side call.
  • Delivery is queued and retried. Signal buffers to Kafka and retries on 429 or a transient failure rather than dropping the event; a permanent rejection goes to the dead-letter queue with the vendor’s reason.
  • One consent decision governs every destination. Drip is gated by the same consent state as the rest of your stack, so a withdrawal applies everywhere at once.

Get your Drip credentials

Find your account ID

It is in the Drip dashboard URL (app.getdrip.com/<account_id>/...) and under Settings > General Info.

Copy your API token

Under Settings > User Settings > API Token.

Configuration

FieldRequiredDescription
account_idYesYour Drip account ID. Found in Settings > General Info, and in the dashboard URL (app.getdrip.com/<account_id>/...).
api_tokenYesYour Drip API token. Found under Settings > User Settings > API Token. Used as the HTTP Basic auth username (password is empty).

Management UI setup

  1. Go to Integrations in the sidebar and open the Integration Library tab.
  2. Find Drip under Marketing Automation and click Install.
  3. Choose a preset, enter the fields above and click Install Integration.

Management API setup

curl -X POST http://localhost:8084/v1/admin/integration-catalog/drip/install \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "name": "Drip",
  "variant": "default",
  "config": {
    "account_id": "your_account_id",
    "api_token": "your_api_token"
  },
  "delivery_mode": "server_side"
}'

What Signal sends

An example request, rendered from the ecommerce preset for purchase:

POST https://api.getdrip.com/v2/9999999/events
 
events=%7B%27action%27%3A+%27Order+Completed%27%2C+%27email%27%3A+%27neill%40example.com%27%2C+%27occurred_at%27%3A+%272025-09-22T00%3A13%3A20Z%27%2C+%27properties%27%3A+%7B%27coupon%27%3A+%27AUTUMN10%27%2C+%27currency%27%3A+%27GBP%27%2C+%27item_count%27%3A+2%2C+%27order_id%27%3A+%27ORD-1001%27%2C+%27shipping%27%3A+499%2C+%27tax%27%3A+4666%2C+%27value%27%3A+27998%7D%7D
FieldSource
events[0].emailThe subscriber email from identify() traits, trimmed and lower-cased. Required.
events[0].actionThe event name shown under Presets (Order Completed, Product Viewed …).
events[0].occurred_atEvent time, ISO 8601.
events[0].propertiesThe event’s properties. value, tax and shipping are in cents as Drip requires (ISO 4217 minor units, so JPY is not multiplied); currency upper-cased; product fields from the first items[] element, plus item_count.

Drip keys the subscriber on the email and accepts no hashed identifier, so it is sent in plain text. An event without an email is not sent.

Presets

PresetSignal event → vendor event
Retailview_item → Product Viewed, add_to_cart → Product Added, remove_from_cart → Product Removed, add_to_wishlist → Product Added to Wishlist, begin_checkout → Checkout Started, purchase → Order Completed, refund → Order Refunded, sign_up → Signed Up, login → Logged In
B2B / SaaSsign_up → Signed Up, login → Logged In, trial_started → Trial Started, trial_converted → Trial Converted, subscription_started → Subscription Started, subscription_cancelled → Subscription Cancelled, demo_requested → Demo Requested
Defaultsign_up → Signed Up, login → Logged In, view_item → Product Viewed, add_to_cart → Product Added, begin_checkout → Checkout Started, purchase → Order Completed, generate_lead → Lead Submitted

Events not listed are not sent. Each preset is a starting point: add, rename or remove mappings on the installed integration.

Notes and limits

  • Drip allows 3,600 single-event calls an hour; Signal paces delivery at one a second. Page views are not sent (Drip’s own script tracks visits).
  • Drip’s Shopper Activity API is its preferred ecommerce feed; it is not used yet (#1494).

Marketing-automation integrations have no consent category by default. Assign the marketing category when you install Drip, so an event is delivered only when the visitor has granted it. Cookie-banner consent is not email or SMS opt-in: keep messaging opt-in in Drip.

Verify it’s working

  1. Open the integration in the Signal Management UI and watch Live Events while you trigger a mapped event.
  2. Confirm a 2xx response from Drip.
  3. Find the contact in Drip and check the event or record arrived.

Troubleshooting

SymptomResolution
401The API token is wrong.
404The account ID is wrong.
422The email address is invalid.