How to use tags?

[TetianaKremnova]

I'm digging into Listmonk but i can't wrap my head around how to use tags. Tags should be attached to subscribers, not to lists. Imagine i have a list called "customers". One customer is from city A and another is from city B. When sending a campaign i would like to send only to customers from city A. I could add tag "cityA" and "cityB" to the customers list but what's the point? All customers will receive the campaign. if instead tags would be at the subscriber level i could easily send to the customers list but only to customers with "cityA" tag. Am i missing something?

[candidexmedia]

What you're looking for is the JSON attributes that can be added to each subscriber and queried: https://listmonk.app/docs/querying-and-segmentation/#sample-attributes

The problem is: the ability to add those attributes as a non-technical user is tricky... I don't think it's possible to pass that kind of info from the regular HTML sign-up form:

• Question: add attributes to forms #105
• In the subscribe public form have the possibility to had attributes  #1203
• Allow Attributes in HTML Form #2201

Instead, you could use the the lists as an easier way to segment, and group all your "city" lists with a "Location" tag. Private lists are for internal use only, and public lists are visible to subscribers (both in public forms, and when they go to manage their preferences).

You can add subscribers to lists (both public and private ones) via the API. I'm using Zapier to do this with third-party form processors.