How to Connect MailChimp as Data Destination

The integration will allow you to add contacts in MailChimp or delete contacts in MailChimp based on data from other systems. For example, you can perform the above actions with contacts by pulling them from your website, landing page or Google Sheets. This will allow you to efficiently automate your workflows and save you a lot of time by eliminating the need to manually add or delete each contacts.  

Let's go through the entire MailChimp setup steps together!

Navigation:
1. What will integration with MailChimp do?
2. How do I connect my MailChimp account to ApiX-Drive?
3. How can I setup data transfer in MailChimp in the selected action?
4. An example of the data that will be sent to your MailChimp.
5. Auto-update and update interval.

To do this, click "Start Configuring Data Destination".

Select the system as Data Destination. In this case, you must specify MailChimp.

Next, you need to specify an action, for example, " Add/Update CONTACT to list".

- Add/Update CONTACT to list - the system will add a new contact or update an existing contact to the list in your MailChimp account based on data from the Data Source block.

- Delate CONTACT from list/audience - the system will remove a contact from a list or audience in your MailChimp account based on data from the Data Source block.

- Unsubscribe CONTACT from list/audience - the system will unsubscribe a contact from a list or audience in your MailChimp account based on data from the Data Source block.

- Archive CONTACT - the system will archive the contact in your MailChimp account based on data from the Data Source block.

- Add NOTE to contact - based on the Data Source block, the system will add a note to an existing contact in your MailChimp account.

The next step is to select the MailChimp account to which the data will be sent.

If there are no accounts connected to the ApiX-Drive system, click "Connect account".

Enter the E-mail and Password from your MailChimp account.

When the connected account is displayed in the "active accounts" list, select it for further work.

Attention! If your account is in the "inactive accounts" list, check your access to this account!

Now you need to specify the name of the List and the Status.

Next, you need to specify from the drop-down field where the Email will be taken from the Data Source for adding or delete.

Also, you can assign the transfer of additional fields to the contact, but this is not mandatory.

Now you can see how it will look like sending data to add a new Contact, according to the selected data.

Click "Send test data to MailChimp" and check the result in the MailChimp contact list.

If something does not suit you - click "Edit" and go back one step.

If everything suits you, click "Next" to continue the setup.

This completes the Data Destination system setup!

Now you can start choosing the update interval and enabling auto-update.

To do this, click "Enable update".

On the main screen, click on the gear icon to select the required update interval or setup scheduled launch. To start the connection by time, select scheduled start and specify the desired time for the connection update will be started, or add several options at once when you need the connection will be started.

Attention! In order for the scheduled run to work at the specified time, the interval between the current time and the specified time must be more than 5 minutes. For example, you select the time 12:10 and the current time is 12:08 - in this case, the automatic update of the connection will occur at 12:10 the next day. If you select the time 12:20 and the current time is 12:13 - auto-update of the connection will work today and then every day at 12:20.

To make the current connection transmit data only after another connection, check the box "Update connection only after start other connection" and specify the connection after which the current connection will be started.

To enable auto-update, switch the slider to the position as shown in the picture.

To perform a one-time data transfer, click on the arrow icon.   

This completes setup MailChimp as Data Destination! See how easy it is!?

Now don't worry, ApiX-Drive will do everything on its own!