Overview

The Mailchimp Integration module allows users to subscribe to or unsubscribe from a Mailchimp audience when signing up or from their account page. It also enables users to select groups and tags, ensuring they only receive the messages they want.

The module adds contacts to your MailChimp audience when users register on your website. Once you have contacts with data you can start segmenting your audience and create automations or campaigns. Read MailChimp documentation about segmenting, automations and campaigns if you’re new to MailChimp.

Getting Started

1) Create an Audience

If you already have a audience to connect with your wordpress site, you can safely bypass this step.

For the integration between MailChimp and Advanced Members you need to create a MailChimp audience. Please do the following:

1. Click the “Audience” item in the MailChimp menu.
2. On the audiences page click the “Create audience” button. MailChimp allows you to create the first audience for free. The “Create audience” button is hidden if you reached a limit of audiences allowed for your plan.
3. On the create audience page fill in all the details and click save.
4. You new audience will be created.

If you are in ‘Free Plan’ of MailChimp, there’ll be no option to create more than 1 audience.

General audience settings:

• Audience name – required
• Audience ID – generated automatically
• Enable double opt-in – optional. See details here
• Enable reCAPTCHA – don’t used by API
• Default From name – recommended
• Default From email address – recommended
• Default Email subject – recommended

2) Get the MailChimp API Key

If you already have a MailChimp API key, you can safely bypass this step.

Follow these steps to create your MailChimp account and get your MailChimp API key:

• Go to the MailChimp website and create an account or login if you already have an account.
• Click the user icon to open the user menu then click the Account and billing item.
• On the account page click the Extras menu item then click the API keys subitem.
• Scroll down to the Your API Keys section and click the Create A Key button.
• Enter the API Key Name and click the Generate Key button.
• Copy your API key and click the Done button.

Once you have an API key go to your website and paste your API key to the MailChimp API Key setting on ACF > Members > Settings > Marketing Mails after ‘Enable MailChimp’