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.
✅ Supported Feature
Subscribe to List — Add a new contact to a selected Emailchef list.
🔧 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:
Go to AFI → Settings → General
Enable Emailchef and click Save Changes
A new tab named Emailchef will appear — click on it
Enter your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret
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
Step 2: Create a New Integration
Go to AFI → Add New
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
Step 3: Configure the Action
🔹 Platform
Select Emailchef
🔹 Task
Choose Subscribe to List
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.
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.
🔍 Troubleshooting
If something isn’t working:
Go to AFI → Log
Find and open the related log entry
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
