Emailchef

Overview

The AFI plugin allows you to automatically subscribe users to your Emailchef mailing lists when they submit a form on your site. This makes it easy to grow your audience and stay connected.

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✅ Supported Feature

• Subscribe to List — Add a new contact to a selected Emailchef list.

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🔧 How To Setup

Step 1: Connect Your Emailchef Account

Before using Emailchef with AFI, you need to save your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.

🛠️ To do this:

1. Go to AFI → Settings → General

2. Enable Emailchef and click Save Changes

3. A new tab named Emailchef will appear — click on it

4. Enter your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret

5. Click Save Changes

📌 Where to find these credentials:

• Log in to your Emailchef account

• Navigate to API / Integrations

• Copy your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret

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Step 2: Create a New Integration

1. Go to AFI → Add New

2. You’ll land on the New Integration screen

🔹 Title

Give your integration a meaningful name, like “Emailchef Newsletter”

🔹 Trigger

• Form Provider: Select your form plugin (e.g., WPForms, Elementor, Ninja Forms)

• Form/Task Name: Choose the form you want to connect

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Step 3: Configure the Action

🔹 Platform

Select Emailchef

🔹 Task

Choose Subscribe to List

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Step 4: Map Fields

Once you select the task, more settings will appear:

🔹 Emailchef Account

Select the Emailchef account you saved earlier

🔹 List

Choose the Emailchef list where subscribers should be added. Available lists will be loaded automatically.

🔹 Fields

Map the fields from your form to Emailchef fields such as:

• Email

• First Name

• Last Name

• Status (optional)

💡 Note: Only mapped and non-empty values will be sent.

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Step 5: Save Integration

Click Save Integration to activate it.

🎉 Done! Now, when a user submits your form, their data will be added to the selected Emailchef list.

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🔍 Troubleshooting

If something isn’t working:

1. Go to AFI → Log

2. Find and open the related log entry

3. Check for issues such as:

   • Invalid credentials (wrong Consumer Key or Secret)

   • List not selected

   • Email field left unmapped or empty

   • API errors returned from Emailchef