Introduction to the Checkfront integration with Mailchimp

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Read this introduction to our Mailchimp integration, including how to find your API key for setup.

To learn more about the functionality of the Mailchimp integration, please read the entire series of articles accessed at the side and bottom of this page.

• Managing merge tags in Mailchimp
• Setting up Mailchimp in Checkfront

 

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What prerequisites are there?

• A Mailchimp account created and accessible!
  
  

Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic, new, or both?

• The Mailchimp feature is available to both those using items (Inventory > Items), a key feature of our classic version of Checkfront, and those using products (Inventory > Products), a key feature of our newest version of Checkfront.

 

New to Checkfront - Products ✨ Products (Inventory > Products) is the successor feature to (Inventory > Items) and is available in our newest version of Checkfront. Not yet on our newest version and interested in upgrading? Please get in touch with our Technical Support team for more information. Discover more product-related help articles here: Products (New).

 

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Looking for an email campaign manager or an existing Mailchimp user? You can now directly integrate Mailchimp with your Checkfront account. Mailchimp is an email marketing service that lets you design, send, and track HTML email campaigns with a simple set of tools.

 

For information on your Mailchimp account and features, please refer to the Mailchimp user guides... Mailchimp Guides and Tutorials

 

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With Mailchimp integrated with Checkfront, Guests are asked if they'd like to subscribe to your communications at the time of booking.

When a Customer opts in via the booking form, Checkfront automatically subscribes them to an Audience (formerly named List), and select booking form information is synced to Mailchimp. We cover this in more detail with the next Mailchimp articles in this series.

For starters, to use this extension, you need a valid Mailchimp account and an API key.

 

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An API (Application Programming Interface) key is a way for applications to connect and work with your account without you having to enter a password. Programs can then work together behind the scenes to get tasks done, such as sending out communications to your contacts!

 

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First, you need to log into your Mailchimp account. After you have successfully logged in, you need to locate your API key within your Mailchimp account.

1. Click on your account name at the bottom left of the main menu.
2. Select Account & billing from the expanded menu.
   
3. Open the Extras menu.
4. Choose API keys from the dropdown menu.

 

From the API keys page, you can now generate an API key. Scroll down the page, if needed, and click on the Create a Key button.

 

This takes you to the Create A Mobile Client Key page.

From here, you provide a Label and Developer Email to associate with the API keys. Click Create Key to generate your API key.

 

From the Your Client Key page, click Copy to Clipboard to copy Your Key for use in the next step, the Checkfront stage of the configuration.

It's okay if you have more than one API key in your Mailchimp account. You may have different keys for different applications. 

 

 

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