Questions involving “Users” “Email Subscribers” & “Customers”

So ive been in the middle of setting up a site with woocommerce and mailchimp. I would like to add an Abandoned Cart setup as well.

Ive been trying to figure out if this is possible but still have found nothing while searching all over google. Maybe im not understanding something im reading or I just haven’t figured it out.

I currently have an email signup form on the site via mailchimp where they sign up with their email first name and zip (if in the us) That is working just fine.

I have a woocommerce set up so when they go to buy something they can opt into the mailchimp mailing list. (also side question. I see there is a user section in the admin called “customers”. When someone buys something does this mean they automatically become a user under “customers”?

I have a contact form that when they send me an email they can opt into the mailchimp mailing list.

Now when it comes to users on the site. I want to have all of these things connected to become one. So if they are part of any of the signup parts they all are added to everything. So if you sign up for the site (im going to be adding a subscription group for people on patreon) you can also become a mailchimp subscriber, and vice versa if you sing up for the mailing list, you become a user on the site.

So This is basically it.

If someone is a user as a customer/subscriber/supporter (patreon) they are all connected to the site and the mailing list via a mailchimp subscriber.

Regardless of how you are signing up to the site, be a user account creation, a mailing list subscriber, or buying a product, you become both a user of the site and a mailchimp subscriber.

I guess the things i need to acquire from people would be the following.

username (i would like this to just be everyones email)

email address (as above becomes their site user name)

First name (required as i want to personalize my mailchimp emails)

their zip code (not required)

After people are site users/mailing list subscribers/customers, I would like to be able to move the patreon supporters to a new user section where they can get access to things regular people cant.

By having this setup, I think it would help with the abandoned cart setup as ill more likely have peoples email info at some point this way. If im understanding abandoned cart, the only way it works is if someone is either already signed up and logged in, or they have got to the part of the shopping cart where they have added their email but not yet purchased the item(s)

I think that’s what im trying to accomplish if I explained it correctly.

I feel this will be good uniform and organization for everything across the site on the back end. Is this possible and even logical to do for a setup?

Thanks