How to integrate Contact Form 7 to Mailchimp

Overview

Advanced Form Integration plugin allows you to integrate Contact Form 7 to Mailchimp. When a user fills a form on your website, the plugin will send the data to your Mailchimp account and create a contact in the preferred audience. You can also add custom merge fields and tags.

Supported Features

• Free: Create a new contact with all basic (First Name, Last Name, Email) fields. It also allows adding the contact to a preferred list.
• Paid: Additionally supports custom merge fields and tags.

Requirements

• Make sure that the Advanced Form Integration plugin is installed and activated.
• The feature is supported under the free license so no payment is needed. Enjoy!
• Read plugin documentation for Contact Form 7 and Mailchimp. It is not required but helpful for better understanding.

Obtaining Mailchimp API Key

Before start, you are required to save the API Key in plugin settings.

1. Login to your Mailchimp account.
2. Go to Account > Extras > API Keys. Copy the key.
3. Go to the WordPress admin area, click AFI > Settings.
4. Select the Mailchimp tab.
5. Paste the Key in the API Key input box and click Save Changes.

Create New Integration

Once API Key is saved you can start creating new integration. Click on Add New under AFI menu, New Integration page will appear.

Title

A default title will be auto-generated with an auto incremental number. You can rename it to something related to the task. It will help you to quickly recognize the correct one when there is multiple integrations setup.

Trigger

Select Contact Form 7 in From Provider dropdown. Contact Form 7 plugin must be installed and activated otherwise you won’t see it listed. After selecting Contact Form 7, all forms built under Contact Form 7 will be fetched and auto-populated in the Form/Task Name dropdown. Select the form that you want to integrate.

Action

Select Mailchimp in Platform dropdown. In Pro plugin select Mailchimp [PRO].

Map Fields

Available contact lists will be auto-populated. Select the desired one. Map Email, First Name, Last Name, etc., and other fields that you want. Skip the fields that not needed. Finally, click the Save Integration button.

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