Mailchimp Pro
This guide assumes you have a Mailchimp account already.
Compatibility
Uses OAuth flow on v3 of the REST API.
Endpoints
Maps data to the following endpoints:
- Members (Contacts)
- Member Tags (Contact Tags)
- Interests (Contact Groups)
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Fields
Maps data to the following Standard and Custom field types:
- Text
- Website
- URL
- Dropdown
- Radio
- Date
- Zip
- Contact Tags
- Contact Groups
- GDPR consent / Marketing settings
Duplicate Check & Update
If a duplicate email address is found in Mailchimp, the profile data will be updated with the latest information submitted.
Setup Instructions
- Go to the Email Marketing section in Freeform Settings (Freeform → Settings → Email Marketing).
- Click the New Integration button at the top right.
- Select Mailchimp (v3) from the Service Provider select dropdown.
- Enter a name and handle for the integration.
- Copy the URL in the OAuth 2.0 Return URI field to your clipboard.
- Leave this page open.
- Open up a new browser tab and go to Mailchimp website and log into your account.
- Click on your account avatar at the top right corner and choose Account & Billing.
- On the next page, select the Extras → Registered Apps sub navigation option.
- Click the Register an App button.
- Fill out all of the fields for the app (all are mandatory except Upload a logo).
- On the next page, paste the value you copied from Freeform's OAuth 2.0 Return URI field into the Mailchimp Redirect URI field.
- Click the Create button at the bottom to save the app.
- After the page reloads, scroll down to the bottom of the page and copy the following newly created credentials:
- Client ID
- Client Secret
- Flip back to the Freeform CP browser tab.
- Paste the Mailchimp Client ID value into the Client ID field in Freeform.
- Paste the Mailchimp Client Secret value into the Client Secret field in Freeform.
- Click the Save button.
- You will be redirected to a Mailchimp OAuth page to allow permissions.
- If not currently logged in, fill in your credentials.
- Click Allow when asked for permissions.
- You will then be redirected back to the Freeform Email Marketing Integration page.
- Confirm that there is a green circle with Authorized in the middle of the page.
To use this integration on your form(s), you'll need to configure each form individually.
- Visit the form inside the form builder.
- Click on the Integrations tab.
- Click on Mailchimp in the list of available integrations.
- On the right side of the page:
- Enable the integration.
- Choose a Freeform field to be the target opt-in field.
- Select a mailing list that new users should be subscribed to.
- Map Freeform fields to the Mailchimp fields as you wish.
- Configure Contact Tags, Contact Groups and Marketing Permissions as needed.
Additional Features
Contact Tags
To map Contact Tags, in the Contact Tags field mapping area in the form builder for the form, select a Freeform field that will contain Tag value(s). This could be a select dropdown, checkboxes, radios, hidden field, etc. When specifying multiples, separate by comma.
- By default, the Mailchimp integration will replace/overwrite any existing Contact Tags if it finds an existing contact for the email address in Mailchimp. If you'd like it to append/add to the existing Contact Tags instead, enable the Append Mailchimp Contact Tags on update instead of overwriting? setting inside the integration settings.
Contact Groups
To map a Contact Interest/Group, in the Contact Groups field mapping area in the form builder for the form, select a Freeform field that will contain an Interest/Group name value(s). This could be a select dropdown, a checkboxes, radios, hidden field, etc.
- Values are case-sensitive and should be entered exactly as it is in Mailchimp, e.g.
My Group Name. - It can accept more than one group.
Marketing Permissions
To map GDPR consent / Marketing settings options, in the Marketing Permissions field mapping area in the form builder for the form, select the Freeform field(s) which will represent opting into the corresponding options. ANY value included in these will be considered an opt-in (regardless of whether it's yes or y, etc). You will need to map a field to each setting individually, so you'll likely need to use a separate checkbox field for each.
WARNING
Please note that if you set this up initially on a development environment, you will need to update your callback URL and reauthorize the connection on your production environment. However, your settings and field mappings will remain intact.