Overview
The AFI plugin lets you seamlessly connect your WordPress forms to Acumbamail, enabling automatic subscriber addition to your email lists. Every time a user submits a form, their details can be sent directly to your Acumbamail audience.
Ideal for lead capture, email newsletters, product launches, and more.
✅ Supported Features
Add subscriber to an Acumbamail list
🔧 How To Setup
Step 1: Connect Your Acumbamail Account
To get started, you need to add your Acumbamail API key.
Go to AFI → Settings → General
Enable Acumbamail and click Save Changes
A new Acumbamail tab will appear — click on it
Enter your API Key
📌 How to Get Your API Key:
Log into your Acumbamail account
Navigate to Settings → API
Copy your API Key
Paste it into the plugin settings and click Save Changes
Step 2: Create a New Integration
Go to AFI → Add New
You’ll land on the New Integration screen
🔹 Title
Give your integration a clear name, such as “Newsletter Signup – Acumbamail”
🔹 Trigger
Form Provider: Choose your form plugin (e.g., WPForms, Elementor, Contact Form 7)
Form/Task Name: Select the form you want to connect
Step 3: Configure the Action
🔹 Platform
Select Acumbamail
🔹 Task
Choose Add Subscriber
This action will send the form data to the Acumbamail list you choose.
Step 4: Map Fields
Once the task is selected, you’ll be able to configure the following:
🔹 Acumbamail Account
Choose your connected Acumbamail account
🔹 Mailing List
Select the Acumbamail list where new contacts will be added
✅ Lists are automatically fetched from your Acumbamail account.
🔹 Subscriber Fields
Map your form fields to Acumbamail fields:
Email (required)
Name (optional)
Surname (optional)
Other Custom Fields – these will be added as merge fields
Double Opt-in – true/false (optional)
✨ AFI will also send a welcome email automatically and can update existing subscribers if they already exist in the list.
Step 5: Save Integration
Click Save Integration to finish setup.
🎉 Done! From now on, anyone who submits the form will be added to your Acumbamail list automatically.
🔍 Troubleshooting
If something doesn’t work as expected:
Go to AFI → Log
Look for entries related to Acumbamail and check the request/response data
Make sure:
The API key is valid
The selected list exists
Email field is correctly mapped and provided
Custom fields are properly matched
No API error is returned from Acumbamail