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Emailchef

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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.


โœ… Supported Feature

  • Subscribe to List โ€” Add a new contact to a selected Emailchef list.


๐Ÿ”ง How To Setup

Step 1: Connect Your Emailchef Account

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

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ To do this:

  1. Go to AFI โ†’ Settings โ†’ General

  2. Enable Emailchef and click Save Changes

  3. A new tab named Emailchef will appear โ€” click on it

  4. Enter your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret

  5. Click Save Changes

๐Ÿ“Œ 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

  1. Go to AFI โ†’ Add New

  2. Youโ€™ll land on the New Integration screen

๐Ÿ”น Title

Give your integration a meaningful name, like โ€œEmailchef Newsletterโ€

๐Ÿ”น 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

๐Ÿ”น Platform

Select Emailchef

๐Ÿ”น Task

Choose Subscribe to List


Step 4: Map Fields

Once you select the task, more settings will appear:

๐Ÿ”น Emailchef Account

Select the Emailchef account you saved earlier

๐Ÿ”น List

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

๐Ÿ”น Fields

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

  • Email

  • First Name

  • Last Name

  • Status (optional)

๐Ÿ’ก Note: Only mapped and non-empty values will be sent.


Step 5: Save Integration

Click Save Integration to activate it.

๐ŸŽ‰ Done! Now, when a user submits your form, their data will be added to the selected Emailchef list.


๐Ÿ” Troubleshooting

If something isn’t working:

  1. Go to AFI โ†’ 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

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