Mailchimp
AffiliateWP’s opt-in form adds visitors to your Mailchimp audience, and pays the affiliate who sent them a flat amount for each new subscriber.
Grow Your Mailchimp Audience Through Your Affiliates
Put AffiliateWP’s opt-in form on any page, and each visitor who fills it in joins your Mailchimp audience. When that visitor came through an affiliate’s link, AffiliateWP also records a referral for the affiliate, at the amount you set.
To add the affiliates themselves to a Mailchimp list as they join your program, connect the two with the Zapier addon.
How It Works
Connect Mailchimp
Under AffiliateWP › Settings › Opt-In Form, pick Mailchimp and add your API key and Audience ID.
Add the opt-in form
Place the Opt-in Form block, or the [opt_in] shortcode, on any page your affiliates link to.
Referred sign-ups earn a referral
A visitor who arrived through an affiliate’s link and subscribes earns that affiliate a referral.
What You Can Set
A flat amount per opt-in
Set what an affiliate earns for each referred subscriber, from zero up.
Pending or unpaid
Record opt-in referrals as pending, to review each one, or as unpaid, ready to pay.
Double opt-in
Have Mailchimp email each new subscriber to confirm before they join your audience.
Affiliates on a Mailchimp list Pro
With the Zapier addon, a zap can add each new affiliate to a Mailchimp audience.
What You Need
Plan
Every AffiliateWP plan for the opt-in form. Adding affiliates to Mailchimp uses the Zapier addon, which is part of Pro.
Works with
A Mailchimp account, with its API key and the ID of the audience you want to grow.
Keep in mind
An email address already in your audience isn’t subscribed again, and it doesn’t earn the affiliate a referral.
Set Up Mailchimp
The setup guide covers connecting Mailchimp, the opt-in referral amount and status, and the form’s success message.
Related Integrations
Frequently Asked Questions
Not on its own. The opt-in form subscribes visitors, not affiliates. To add affiliates as they join, use the Zapier addon on Pro, with a zap from AffiliateWP’s Affiliates trigger to Mailchimp.
The flat Opt-In Referral Amount you set under AffiliateWP › Settings › Opt-In Form. It’s the same amount for every opt-in, and it starts at 0.00 until you change it.
A first name, a last name and an email address. All three are required, and AffiliateWP sends the names to Mailchimp with the email.
Yes. Add a redirect to the shortcode, like [opt_in redirect="https://example.com/thanks/"]. Without one, the visitor stays on the page and sees the success message you set.
On the Referrals screen. Each opt-in referral carries the subscriber’s email address as its reference.
The same opt-in form connects to ActiveCampaign or ConvertKit instead of Mailchimp. It connects to one platform at a time.