MailChimp Plugin | Blue Form Builder

Seamlessly integrate online forms with MailChimp

To install the plugin, please refer to this document for detailed instructions. It will take you just a few minutes to install our plugin.

After installing this plugin, you can find it in the settings of every form. Open a form’s settings. Then click on “Plugins” tab. You will see the plugin in MailChimp tab.

Yes, to activate the plugin, you need to enter the API key that will allow our plugin to access your MailChimp account without you giving out your password. To do that, open Content tab on the admin sidebar. Then open Settings. On the left panel, click MailChimp tab. Enter API key in API Key field. Remember to choose “Yes” in Enabled field. To find or generate your API key, please click here.

Basically, you can use MailChimp plugin with all kinds of forms. However, one condition is that these forms include email field. 

First, go to Content > Manage Forms. Find MailChimp form in the grid. Then in Action column, click Select > View to go to the form page on frontend store. After that, fill out the form. (Click here to have a clearer view of how the form looks).

Second, open Content > Form Submissions.  Click View in Action column to open the submission you’ve made. On the top bar, click Sync to MailChimp. If you see a message like that in the red rectangle of the below image, so the subscriber has been successfully added to the MailChimp list. You can open your MailChimp list for further check. 

This depends on the configuration of Cron Job.

Navigate to Stores > Configuration. Then click Advanced > System in the left panel. Open Cron configuration options for group: default tab. In Generate Schedules Every field, if you keep the default value (like the image below), so after 15 minutes, subscribers will appear in the MailChimp list. You can change this value by untick the checkbox “Use system value” next to this field and enter your wanted value. 

You can check that by navigating to Content > Form Submissions. For each submission, if you see the MailChimp icon in MailChimp column, it means that the customer who submits this submission was added to your MailChimp list. 

Because MailChimp is a plugin of Blue Form Builder extension, the Magento edition for its installation will be decided by the edition you choose for Blue Form Builder.

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