Getting started with Magento 1.x (CE and EE)

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Learn how to integrate with Magento 1. Klaviyo integrates with both Magento 1 CE and Magento 1 EE. We currently support Magento versions 1.5 and higher.

There are two main steps to integrating Magento 1 with Klaviyo:

1. Enabling the Magento Integration in Klaviyo.
2. Installing the Klaviyo Extension in Magento.

This guide covers both steps and the related tasks for Magento 1 stores.

Set up Magento API credentials

The Magento 1.x integration with Klaviyo requires a creating a new role with full resource access and assign a new user to this role. The Username and Password of this user will serve as the API credentials.

In your Magento admin panel click the System tab and select Web Services > SOAP/XML-RPC-Roles.

Select Add New Role. Then click the Role Resources tab and set Resource Access to All.

Select the Role Info tab, name the role "Klaviyo," and click Save Role.

Click the System tab and select Web Services > SOAP/XML-RPC-Users.

Select Add New User.

Click the User Role tab and set the Role to Klaviyo.

Click the User Info tab. Set the User Name to "klaviyo" and enter a strong API Key. You can type in any alphanumeric value. Save the User Name and API Key as you will use them when enabling the Magento 1 integration in Klaviyo. Fill in the rest of the information and click Save User.

API performance

To improve the performance of your integration we highly recommend enabling caching for the two Magento Web Services Configuration settings.

In your Magento admin panel click on System > Cache Management.

Enable caching on the two Web Services Configuration settings.

Enable the Magento 1 integration in Klaviyo

Use the Magento API key you created to enable the Magento 1 integration in Klaviyo.

Log in to your Klaviyo account and click your account name in the lower left corner. Then, select Integrations > Add integrations and search for Magento. Click the Magento card, then click Install.

Enter the following information:

• Site URL
  The site URL is the address of your Magento instance.
• API Username
  The username you created for your new user with API permissions.
• Password / API key
  The api key you created for your new user.

Now, click Connect to Magento. You'll be presented with the following advanced options, and should enable them as needed:

• Stores
  All Magento 1 stores are synced to Klaviyo by default. This setting allows you to be selective about which stores you integrate with. Head over to Supporting Multiple Magento Stores to learn more. 
• Special Price Settings
  We highly recommend enabling Special Price Settings if you're planning to use this feature. It is more difficult to enable this feature later. You can read more about this setting in the Special Price section below.
• Coupon Settings
  Review this guide on how to enable coupons in Magento 1 and then fill in these fields.

When finished, click Complete setup.

Magento 1 is now connected to Klaviyo. Next you'll add the Klaviyo Extension/Plugin to your Magento account.

Install the Klaviyo extension in Magento

The Klaviyo extension adds Active on Site and Viewed Product tracking to your Magento store. Installing the Klaviyo extension for Magento is also required to start syncing Checkout Started events. It's important to sync your Checkout Started events so that they can trigger your abandoned cart flow.

Klaviyo's latest extension for Magento 1 is v.1.9.0, updated October 2024: Magento 1 v1.9.0 Extension Download.

After downloading the extension to your computer, navigate to System > Magento Connect > Magento Connect Manager.

Under Direct package file upload click Choose File and select the extension you downloaded above. Click Upload. The extension will upload and install.

Once you've installed the extension, navigate to the extension's page to configure the settings.
Click on System > Configuration and then click on Klaviyo under the Customers section. If after clicking Klaviyo you hit a 404 message, log out of Magento and log right back in.

Set Enabled to Yes and fill in the other fields. The Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Authorization Token, and Authorization Secret can all be left blank unless you are setting up coupons with Magento.

Sync a Magento sign-up form to a Klaviyo list

You can optionally sync a Magento sign-up form so that users are added to a Klaviyo list.

First, create a list in Klaviyo that you want to sync with your Magento sign up form.

If you're not already on the General Settings tab (as instructed in the previous section,) navigate to System > Configuration , and click on Klaviyo under the Customers section.

From the General Subscription List dropdown select the Klaviyo list you want to sync to.

By default, Use Klaviyo Opt-In Settings For This List is set to Yes, use the Klaviyo settings for this list. We recommend that you keep this setting enabled. When this setting is enabled:

• For a double opt-in list: the user will get a confirmation email before they're added to the designated list. Once they confirm via email, they are added to the list and a Subscribe to List metric is created. If no confirmation is received, they will not be added to the list.
• For a single opt-in list: the customer will be added to a list and a Subscribe to List metric is created.

If No, do not send opt-in emails from Klaviyo is enabled, a Subscribed to List metric will never be created when a profile is added to a list. We don't recommend this setting, but it is available to preserve a legacy setting.

Set up a Magento cron job

The Klaviyo extension uses cron jobs to stay up-to-date and run periodic maintenance tasks.

From the Magento Admin Panel, go to System > Configuration.

Scroll all the way down to the Advanced section, and choose System.

Then select Cron (Scheduled Tasks). Set up a Cron to run every 5 minutes, then click Save Config.

For more information about setting up Magento cron jobs, consult the Magento documentation for more detailed information about setting up a cron job.

Set up cron in a UNIX-based operating system

If you have shell access to your server, you can use the crontab service command. The Magento cron needs to run every five minutes, so the time configuration is:

*/5 * * * *

The full line in crontab will look like one of these (we suggest the first version):

*/5 * * * * /bin/sh MAGENTO_PATH/cron.sh
*/5 * * * * /bin/bash MAGENTO_PATH/cron.sh
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php MAGENTO_PATH/cron.php
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -f MAGENTO_PATH/cron.php

where MAGENTO_PATH is the location of your Magento installation on the server.

Set up cron using cPanel (or your virtual hosting provider)

If you don't have shell access you can consult your virtual hosting provider's documentation. We cover using cPannel as an example below.

Log into cPanel for your hosting account. Find the Advanced section and click the "Cron Jobs" icon.

A list of current cron jobs shows along with a form to add a new job. Enter the following settings in the "Add New Cron Job" form. Make sure to replace MAGENTO_PATH with the path to your Magento installation. If you're not sure what the path is or how to find it, you can use an FTP program to browse the files on your server and find the directory that contains the cron.sh file.

After you add the new cron job you should see checkout data in Klaviyo within 15 minutes.

Monitoring the historical data sync

When you first integrate with Magento 1, Klaviyo will sync the last 90 days of your Magento 1 data so you can get started right away with engaging your most recent customers. After the sync of your most recent 90 days of data, Klaviyo will begin your complete historical data sync. Depending on how many orders, customers and products your store has, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to several days to sync all of your data.

Once this historical sync is complete, new data will sync to Klaviyo every 30 minutes. To check the progress of the initial sync, click on the Analytics tab in the sidebar.

Find the Placed Order metric and change the date range of the graph to see which dates have been fully synced. When the sync is complete, the Magento 1 integration in the Integrations tab will be marked complete. If you want to verify for yourself that all data from Magento 1 is synced, you can cross-check the total orders for a few days or a week. Before you start validating, make sure your account's timezone matches the settings in Magento 1.

Data synced with the Magento 1 integration

Klaviyo's Magento integration allows you to pull certain customer information from your Magento platform to send targeted, data-driven emails in Klaviyo. Once you've configured your integration, you'll be able to personalize and target emails based on customer purchase and website activity. Here's some of the data we sync from Magento:

• Customer information including first name, last name, and location.
• Klaviyo syncs all customers that subscribe to your Magento newsletter list moving forward. It is important to ensure that any customer that makes it to your Magento newsletter list has consented to receiving marketing emails.
• Fulfillment, refunded and canceled order data.
• When people visit your website and what items and categories they view.
  • These metrics will show in your account as Active on Site and Viewed Product.
  • You won't have to add the Klaviyo tracking snippet to your site with the Magento integration as these metrics are already handled by our extension.

To learn more, head over to Review and Understand your Magento 1 Data.

Create an API key with limited permissions

This documentation covers the Magento SOAP API that Klaviyo's integration is built on. We recommend giving access to all endpoints within the path /api/*. While these will most likely not directly equate to the permissions you will see when setting up the SOAP user and role (as permissions have changed throughout various 1.x versions), here are the API calls we make for Magento 1.x:

• catalogCategoryTree
• catalogInventoryStockItemList
• catalogProductAttributeInfo
• catalogProductAttributeMediaList
• catalogProductInfo
• catalogProductList
• catalogProductTagList
• customerCustomerInfo
• customerCustomerList
• customerGroupList
• salesOrderInfo
• salesOrderList
• shoppingCartInfo
• storeList

If you need to allowlist certain ports (if you have a firewall, for example), the Magento integration is currently on HTTP/80, but if it is available on 443 this can be changed.

Special price

When configuring your integration settings, you will have the option to pull in "Special Price," which refers to a special sale price for items that can optionally take effect in a certain date range. For each product, there are 4 metadata fields that we will sync:

• price (Required float): The standard price of the item
• special_price (Optional float): This is a special sale price for the item. When this price is in effect, you will see this special_price next to a strikethrough of the price
• special_from_date (Optional date): This specifies a start date for special_price to take effect
• special_to_date (Optional date): This specifies an end date for special_price being in effect

On the Magento 1 integration settings page, there is a checkbox to Use special price for product prices when applicable. When this setting is enabled, the product block will display the special price when applicable. When using a dynamic product feed, the special price will populate at send time. When manually selecting items from your catalog, the special price will populate once you select the product(s).

Convert Magento order values into a single currency

Klaviyo supports the conversion of all foreign currencies in Magento into one primary currency in Klaviyo. When this feature is enabled, the conversion happens when Magento syncs order data into Klaviyo. This is especially helpful if you have multiple stores with transactions in different currencies.

Klaviyo will check if the order_currency_code is the same as the set global_currency_code. If not, Klaviyo will convert the order total from the order currency to the global currency specified in your integration settings. This ensures that your financial analytics are accurate.

Upgrade your extension

Are you using an Magento extension version below 1.8.3? We recommend you upgrade immediately to version 1.8.3. Older versions of the extension use Klaviyo’s v1 and v2 APIs which are retired and no longer operate as expected. 

To upgrade your extension, remove your old extension and then follow the steps contained in this guide to re-install. You can download version 1.8.3 here: Magento 1 v1.8.3 Extension Download.