What's the best way to set up an automation to start in mailchimp when a form is submitted in Webflow?
the general answer will be using something like zapier or make.com to intercept the form submission and then doing something in mailchimp - but it depends on what it is you are trying to automate within mailchimp too.
I mean in theory yeah, are you just wanting to send some of the form data to mailchimp or?
No, my client wants an email series to get sent out when someone submits a form on his webflow site
when someone fills out the contact form they want an email to be sent from mail chimp to that person
regardless of the form though - I would think that basically you would still want to send the email to mailchimp - so the "trigger" could be within Webflow Logic - when this form is submitted - send the email to mailchimp. And then within Mailchimp you would setup the email campaign/funnel.
I've not had any luck with Webflow logic though - but regardless of what tool you use, Zapier/Make/Webflow logic - the trigger point is "form submission" and the data being sent, is the email that was submitted within the form. Then you'd have Mailchimp automations take it from there.
so is this not full proof?
https://university.webflow.com/lesson/integrate-mailchimp-and-webflow?topics=logic
More likely to work with Zapier?
I'm not sure why but the client is specifically asking for a native integration
yeah that looks super helpful - dont think that doc existed when I was investigating this awhile back so I would give it a shot. Client is likely wanting to keep their stack/costs minimal. Skimming over that doc, seems like it should work.
I mean generally speaking API connections tend to be stable but yeah, its a possible maintenance point for sure.
hmm I would check to see if Webflow throws any kind of notification out if a flow fails - I dont recall if it does or not - but I seem to vaguely remember it doing this