How To Integrate weForms with MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, and MailPoet

Have you ever thought about why you need a contact form for your WordPress website? Probably, your answer would be, I use the contact form to collect data, for example, gather the feedback of customers, save time, lower bounce rate, etc. But how about utilizing a free WordPress form builder as a vital email marketing tool?

Yes, we are talking about weForms. If you have a WordPress website, then you must need a WordPress Form Builder Plugin to get the mentioned benefits. In that case, weForms will not only give you those benefits but also will provide email marketing facilities.

So, if you're looking for such a solution where you can get all these facilities in one place then this article is for you. Because we'll be going to show ‘How you can integrate weForms with the most popular email marketing solutions like Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor & Mailpoet, in a few minutes.

So Let's get started:

How To Integrate weForms with Mailchimp

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Integrating weForms with Mailchimp

If you have an online business with the WordPress platform, then you must associate with MailChimp. Because it's well-known as the best email marketing solution. Furthermore, it's very powerful and provides amazing email marketing support for small to medium businesses.

How would it sound if you can collaborate Mailchimp with your website's contact form? For instance, you'll be automatically getting every form datum of your website right into Mailchimp. Thus, it'll reduce time, cost, and more. Yes, you're getting right. You can integrate weForms with Mailchimp to get the privilege of email marketing with ease.

That's why, we'll be going to show, how you can integrate weForms with Mailchimp, in this section.

So without further ado, let's get started:

Note: Mailchimp (Module) is a pro feature of weForms

Requirements

  • WordPress site
  • weForms (free)
  • weForms (Pro)

Basic Installation Process (4 steps)

The installation process of any plugins in WordPress is the same. So after installing weForms, you just need to follow the steps below:

Step 1: Activating Mailchimp Module

  • To activate this module, Navigate to WP Admin>weForms>Modules> Activate Mailchimp
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Activating Mailchimp

Step 2: Getting API Keys

An API key is a must if you want to integrate Mailchimp with weForms. To do that, log in to your Mailchimp account.

  • Then click on the Extras>API Keys
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Selecting API keys
  • Next, You'll get a window where you'll see the API number or key. What you have to do is, copy the code or click on ‘Create API
Getting API keys
Copying API keys

Step 3: Setting Up Mailchimp

Give your API key here, and then click on save changes. To do that,

  • Navigate to WP Admin>weForms>Settings>Mailchimp
Giving API key
Giving API key
  • To integrate forms with Mailchimp. Navigate to weForms>All forms>Add New Forms>Select Form Template>Integration Tab
Integrating Mailchimp
Integrating Mailchimp

You'll get some default fields of Mailchimp here. And you just need to put the desired information of weForms. Again, you'll also get shortcodes to use in the fields. So click on the <> button. And then select the fields of your form that you want to pass the data to Mailchimp.

Finally, Save the form, and when you're done with integrating the form with MailChimp.

Step 4: Final Step

  • After integrating your form with MailChimp, hit the ‘Publish' form. And then put some value on the fields and click on the submit button.
Final Integration
  • Then, fill out the form and click on the ‘Send Message' button. And that'll be recorded to your Mailchimp account.

In this way, a WordPress Form Builder Plugin will ease your task to get data from your website. This will not only help you to get all the data but also enhance your UX on the website.

However, read this article on ‘How to create an online Database using weForms

Getting Confused? Watch the full video of this tutorial:

How To Integrate weForms with Campaign Monitor

Integrating weForms with Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor is another useful feature like Mailchimp. And one of the most popular email marketing solutions out there in the market. The good news is Campaign Monitor is now integrated with the WordPress form builder plugin ‘weForms'! So what's more?

You can get everything that you need for your business. Moreover, it's supporting over 2 million people for their perspective business. So we're going to show ‘How you can integrate weForms with Campaign monitor' in a simple way.

So let's dive in:

Note: Campaign Monitor is the pro feature of weForms.

Basic Installation Process (4 Steps)

Step 1: Activating Campaign Monitor Module

  • To activate this module, Navigate to WP Admin>weForms>Modules>Activate Campaign Monitor

That's it. You need no third-party integration for this.

Campaign Monitor
Campaign Monitor

Step 2: Getting API Keys

You need API keys to run this feature for your website. However, here you have to copy the API keys from the campaign monitor account and paste them to your website. To do that:

  • Navigate to Campaign Monitor Account>Click On Account Settings>Api Keys>Copy The Codes
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Copying API keys from Campaign Monitor

Step 3: Setting Up Campaign Monitor

Next, paste the API key, that you generated earlier in the Campaign Monitor.

  • To do this, navigate to WP Admin>weForms→Settings→Campaign Monitor>Hit the ‘Save Changes‘ button.
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Giving API keys
  • After that, you need to integrate it with your form. To do that, navigate to weForms>All Forms>Add new Form>Integrations

However, you need a subscriber list. If you do so, then it'll appear in the list menu. So click on the dropdown menu title list and select the Campaign Monitor List. And using <> shortcodes, you can get names and email, etc.

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Configuring Campaign Monitor
  • After giving all the information in the fields, click on the ‘Save Form‘ button when you're done with your integration.

Step 4: Final Integration

Finally, your form is ready to work with Campaign Monitor and also collect data. This process is also like the previous section.

Anyways, if you have any confusion you can check the following video tutorial to get a better understanding.

However, you can check our documentation for more details.

How to Integrate weForms with Mailpoet

Mailpoet is another fastest email marketing solution. This is also the most used email marketing solution over the years. To make the email marketing path smoother, Mailpoet is now integrated with weForms. Again, you'll get facilitated with the collaboration of weForms and Mailpoet on your website.

Anyways, you'll get the Mailpoet Integration feature in the personal plan (Pro Feature).

The integration process of weForms with Mailpoet is similar to the process of Campaign Monitor and MailChimp that we covered in the earlier section. So check out this documentation on ‘How to Integrate weForms with Mailpoet

Watch the video tutorial to get a better understanding.

Over To You

Well, we have discussed elaborately ‘How you can integrate weForms with Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor & Mailpoet' with your website. We hope that you get something useful and also believe that this tutorial will encourage you on ‘How a free WordPress form builder can be a very effective weapon for email marketing these days.

Final Verdict

We often think a Contact Form Builder has a limited opportunity for business. And people beware of spam nowadays, so make sure you're using a customizable WordPress Form Builder Plugin for your site. Do you know an effective contact form will not only beautify your site's outlook but will also give you enormous opportunities to gain happier customers?

So the benefits of contact forms these days, especially in the email marketing trend, are enormous. That's why we have discussed the utilities of using weForms in terms of various purposes. So you can use weForms not only as a contact form but also as a vital email marketing tool.

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Nahid Komol
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Nahid Komol

Nahid is a marketer by profession and writer by passion, the feeling of independence and free thinking always keeps him going! If not writing, he’s either running his eyes over the science fiction stories, editing videos, or playing acoustic guitar, writing lyrics, and taking photos of nature!

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