MailChimp Ecommerce order input via API is not showing in activity feed - mailchimp

Question

I am setting up API calls to get Squarespace ecommerce products/customers/orders into Mailchimp. I specifically need the transactions to show up in the 'Activity Feed' on a customer's account, but I haven't found any documentation or answers on how to do this. The orders are adding to the 'Total Revenue' box, but not showing up on the activity feed. Screenshot attached.
So far I've fiddled around with several options in Postman. I'm trying to figure out how to make the call work before I integrate it into the rest of my code. I've read through all of the ecommerce documentation on MailChimp's site. The orders documentation is linked below.
https://mailchimp.com/developer/reference/ecommerce-stores/ecommerce-orders/
Here's what I'm sending via Postman:
Post URL: https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders
Body: {"id": "SAROrd000003",
"customer": {"id": "SAR000001"},
"currency_code": "USD",
"order_total": "50.00",
"lines": [{"id": "misc", "product_id": "misc", "product_variant_id":"none","quantity":1,"price":"50.00"}]
}
Here's the response I'm getting from Postman
{
"id": "SAROrd000003",
"customer": {
"id": "SAR000001",
"email_address": "sargent.jessica.b#gmail.com",
"opt_in_status": false,
"company": "",
"first_name": "",
"last_name": "",
"orders_count": 3,
"total_spent": 150,
"address": {
"address1": "",
"address2": "",
"city": "",
"province": "",
"province_code": "",
"postal_code": "",
"country": "",
"country_code": ""
},
"created_at": "2019-11-27T00:52:34+00:00",
"updated_at": "2019-11-27T02:38:51+00:00",
"_links": [
{
"rel": "self",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/customers/SAR000001",
"method": "GET",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Customers/Response.json"
},
{
"rel": "parent",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/customers",
"method": "GET",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Customers/CollectionResponse.json"
},
{
"rel": "update",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/customers/SAR000001",
"method": "PATCH",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Customers/Response.json",
"schema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Customers/PATCH.json"
},
{
"rel": "upsert",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/customers/SAR000001",
"method": "PUT",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Customers/Response.json",
"schema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Customers/PUT.json"
},
{
"rel": "delete",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/customers/SAR000001",
"method": "DELETE"
}
]
},
"store_id": "test_store",
"campaign_id": "",
"landing_site": "",
"financial_status": "",
"fulfillment_status": "",
"currency_code": "USD",
"order_total": 50,
"order_url": "",
"discount_total": 0,
"tax_total": 0,
"shipping_total": 0,
"tracking_code": "",
"processed_at_foreign": "",
"cancelled_at_foreign": "",
"updated_at_foreign": "",
"shipping_address": {
"name": "",
"address1": "",
"address2": "",
"city": "",
"province": "",
"province_code": "",
"postal_code": "",
"country": "",
"country_code": "",
"longitude": 0,
"latitude": 0,
"phone": "",
"company": ""
},
"billing_address": {
"name": "",
"address1": "",
"address2": "",
"city": "",
"province": "",
"province_code": "",
"postal_code": "",
"country": "",
"country_code": "",
"longitude": 0,
"latitude": 0,
"phone": "",
"company": ""
},
"lines": [
{
"id": "misc",
"product_id": "misc",
"product_title": "misc",
"product_variant_id": "none",
"product_variant_title": "none",
"quantity": 1,
"price": 50,
"discount": 0,
"_links": [
{
"rel": "self",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders/SAROrd000003/lines/misc",
"method": "GET",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/Lines/Response.json"
},
{
"rel": "parent",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders/SAROrd000003",
"method": "GET",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/Lines/CollectionResponse.json"
},
{
"rel": "update",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders/SAROrd000003/lines/misc",
"method": "PATCH",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/Lines/Response.json",
"schema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/Lines/PATCH.json"
},
{
"rel": "delete",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders/SAROrd000003/lines/misc",
"method": "DELETE"
}
]
}
],
"_links": [
{
"rel": "self",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders/SAROrd000003",
"method": "GET",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/Response.json"
},
{
"rel": "parent",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders",
"method": "GET",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/CollectionResponse.json"
},
{
"rel": "update",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders/SAROrd000003",
"method": "PATCH",
"targetSchema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/Response.json",
"schema": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/schema/3.0/Definitions/Ecommerce/Stores/Orders/PATCH.json"
},
{
"rel": "delete",
"href": "https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/ecommerce/stores/test_store/orders/SAROrd000003",
"method": "DELETE"
}
]
}

Answer 1

I spoke with someone on their API team. submitting an order date in ISO-8601 format into the "processed_at_foreign" param solved the problem.