Mailchimp via API Call Notifications

Prerequisites

To follow this tutorial, you must be able to create API Call Notifications. In addition, you must know how to manage integrations and have a Mailchimp account where you can find your API key.

• Creating an API Call Notification
• Mailchimp: Find or generate your API key

Steps

Integrating Mailchimp using API Call Notifications is a two-step process:

• Step 1: Create an API call notification
• Step 2: Add API call notifications to forms

Step 1: Create an API call notification

Create an API Call Notification:

• Store your Mailchimp API key as a constant, for example . You can set it with . The API call reads it as . Never put the key itself in the file.
• Replace with the last part of your Mailchimp API key (the part after the , for example,  where is the DC_KEY)
• Replace with your Mailchimp Audience ID. Follow the steps outlined in Mailchimp: Find your Audience ID.
• Add the payload based on the attributes in your form. The example reads , and . Use the field names from your form.

---
name: mailchimp_new_host
to: 'https://<<YOUR_DC_KEY>>.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists/<<YOUR_AUDIENCE_ID>>/members/'
format: http
request_type: POST
request_headers: >
  {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "apikey {{ context.constants.MAILCHIMP_API_KEY }}"
  }
---
{
    "email_address": "{{ form.email }}",
    "status": "subscribed",
    "merge_fields": {
    "FNAME": "{{ form.first_name }}",
    "LNAME": "{{ form.last_name }}"
    }
}

Step 2: Add API call notifications to forms

Add the following to the front matter on your form:

api_call_notifications:
  - mailchimp_new_host