Configuration Instructions

Retrieving and configuring your MailChimp mailing lists is a two step process:

1. Enter your MailChimp API key, and click the "Get clients" link. The extension includes a quick link to retrieve your MailChimp API key, in case you haven't got it to hand.
2. Select the mailing lists to which you wish to subscribe newly activated members, by ticking the checkbox next to the list name. If required, you can also select an "opt-in trigger" (see below), and map MailChimp Interest Groups and Merge Variables to custom ExpressionEngine member profile fields.

Trigger fields

A "trigger" field is a custom ExpressionEngine member profile field that must contain a specific value in order for the mailing list subscription to be processed.

For example, you may have a "Special Offers" mailing list, which new members must opt-in to. Here's how to implement this:

1. Create a new custom EE member profile field, and give it an appropriate field name (for example, "subscribe-offers") and label (for example, "Receive our special offers newsletter?"). Specify Drop-down list as the field type, and add the options Yes and No.
2. Open the MailChimp Subscribe extension settings page. Tick the checkbox for the "Special Offers" mailing list, select the member profile field you just created from the "Trigger field" drop-down, and set the "Trigger value" to Yes.