Setting Up Mailchimp Automation for Webflow Form Submissions

Sara M. 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.

Thank you Matt J.. Is this something that can be done with Webflow logic?

I don't know much about Webflow logic so it could be that totally doesn't make sense

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

interesting but what is the form?

there is a contact form on their website

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.

ok, that makes sense

Matt J. you mean that Webflow logic doesn't work well?

yeah in my experience its not that easy to use or is missing key features

💙 webflow with my whole heart but sometimes...🤷‍♂️

I hear what you mean. Really appreciate the insight

Matt J. 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.

ok. is there any risks with the API malfunctioning at any point?

I mean generally speaking API connections tend to be stable but yeah, its a possible maintenance point for sure.

ok that's good. so you're saying it should be checked like monthly?

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

good to know. thank you