Setting up Member Essentials to sync to Mailchimp with a a free Mailchimp account is easy. Follow this video for an overview. (Duration 5:38)
Member Essentials offers an integration with Mailchimp. This provides a way for your member's email information in Member Essentials to sync with your Mailchimp account.
To check your status: Admin, Member Management, Mailchimp config. Also Access Groups can appear as Tags which will sync nightly to Mailchimp.
Required access:
You will need the Email Administrator administrative access level or Administrator.
Where to go:
To get to the Mailchimp Config follow these steps:
- Go to Admin > Member Management
- Select Mailchimp Config
- Values needed from Mailchimp are the API Key and List name / Audience
- Login to https://mailchimp.com select Sign Up Free
- use an email address that has not been used with Mailchimp.
- Fill out the basic information. Mailchimp will validate the account by sending an email.
- Once you have logged in you can use the default audience or clear it, make note of the name.
- Get API Key, by selecting your profile, Account, Extra, API key
- Create API key, copy the Key
- Return to Member Portal, Admin, Member Management, Mailchimp Config
- Paste the List Name and API Key.
- Select Save, Ok to close the browser.
- return 4 hours later. Admin, Member Management, Mailchimp Config
- If the Last Sync has a value. Mailchimp is setup
- Login to Mailchimp to confirm your audience is populated
Contact us email: memberessentials@ajli.org if you have any questions.