If your business is based in the European Union (EU), or you process the personal data of individuals in the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affects you.
New contacts that use your signup form will be able to give explicit consent to your marketing.
How to Find and Manage Your Mailchimp Audience Fields and *|MERGE|* Tags
To add, edit or remove Mailchimp fields and MERGE tags first you need to select your audience or mailing list inside mailchimp.com.
To find your Mailchimp audience or mailing list head to: https://admin.mailchimp.com/lists (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. In this screenshot you can see your Mailchimp audiences or mailing lists.
In this page you will see a listing of all your audiences, and from here you can select which one you will modify. In this example, we will choose our list Avengers:
Fig. 2. This is the page for the Avengers audience.
On the screenshot above you can see highlighted on yellow the link to reach the page that holds all your merge tags for this specific audience or mailing list. Click on it and lets go to the next page (Fig. 2):
Fig. 3. These are the names of your merge tags inside Mailchimp.com settings area.
Here you can manage the fields available to your audience’s signup forms. As you can see, merge tags names are only capitalized LETTERS, NUMBERS or UNDERSCORES. No special characters or symbols (Fig. 3).
Please note that the merge tags names are FNAME, LNAME or MERGE2 and WEBSITE or MERGE3 – No Need to use these asterisks or pipes *||*
Copy the API key you want to use under Your API keys
Tip: We recommend creating a unique API Key for Chimpmatic with a descriptive name. You can do so by clicking the Create A Key button you see on API key screen. Then edit the key by clicking on the textbox that contains it. Unique keys are important for security—you can view our FAQ below to learn more.
Contact Form 7 is a powerful WordPress plugin to help you to add contact forms to your WordPress site. This quick tutorial will help you to setup Contact Form 7 in less than 5 minutes!
We will work with 2 specific TABS in the settings page: the FORM tab and the MAIL tab.
1 – The FORM tab
This is the form tab, here you can add all the fields you need in your form. This specific form has 4 mail-tags:
Step 1: Enable the Debug Logger included inside the MailChimp Extension tab, and click SAVE. This will help you to record some issues you are experiencing with this particular form.
This is the Chimpmatic LITE tab, here you will need to map all your fields. As you can see in each dropdown you can choose the [mail-tags] that you wanna send to your Mailchimp.com mailing list:
Once you have fetched your lists, they will be ALL here. Now, you can choose a list that will store your subscribers information for this this specific form:
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Only [email-tags] will be displayed here as options:
Once you have your settings the way you need it, click on SAVE and test your form. All information from the fields above will be stored in your Mailchimp.com mailing list.
Problems or Issues: Enable the Debug Logger included inside the MailChimp Extension tab, and click SAVE. This will help you to record some issues you are experiencing with this particular form.
In this article, you’ll learn why you are missing an [email-tag] in the email dropdown and why [email-tag] is required my Mailchimp.com
In order to send visitors information to Mailchimp.com, your form needs at least 1 important field. This field is the [email-tag], if this info is missing from your submission, nothing will be added to your mailing list inside Mailchimp.com.
To add a basic email field to your form you can copy and paste this snippet to your form: [email* your-email].
You can see this snippet in context here, this is the ‘Form Tab’ inside Contact Form 7:
In this article, you’ll learn how to send information to your Subscriber Name FNAME field. You will get up and running in under 5 minutes with Chimpmatic Lite.
To add a basic name field to your form you can copy and paste this snippet to your form: [text* your-name] .
You can see this snippet in context here, this is the ‘Form Tab’ inside Contact Form 7:
FREE Integration for WordPress Contact Form 7 with MailChimp. Automatically add form submissions to predetermined lists in MailChimp, using its latest API. This MailChimp Extension supports multiple mailing lists and API Keys.