MailChimp is an online email marketing solution to manage contacts, send emails and track results.
To use MailChimp, you will need to set up a new mailing list (from the admin panel, Marketing > Mailing Lists). Set the List Type to “MailChimp” and provide your API key and the List ID of the subscription list used.
Find this in the MailChimp admin interface. An API key can be generated under Account Settings > Extras > API Keys:
The list ID can be found under the list details by navigating to the top and select List.
Then, select the name of your list and click "Settings" and you will find this at the bottom of the page.
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Wow - sorry to hear that Andrew. I was underwhelmed with the mailchimp integration, but now glad I didn't use it!! That's a HUGE bug.
Others might do what I did, altho admittedly I don't get as many new subs this way as when I had it on the checkout page, at least it's working....
I added a custom page with a subscribe form. Then on checkout page, I added a link to this subscribe form.
I don't remember why, but I actually took it a step further and had this custom subscribe form submit to a text file on my server instead of directly to mailchimp, then I upload this text file to mailchimp about once a week.
I'd love to put this back on the checkout page - does anyone have experience with one of the other supported lists - Bronto or CampaignMonitor perhaps? ConstantContact was pretty well integrated but just got way too expensive when my list reached 10k subscribers ($220/mo!!!)
I just noticed this article was recently updated, and comments have been removed.
Does this mean that the bug we were discussing has been fixed?
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