Once you click on "Mail Chimp", the first screen you will see will ask you to log in with your Mail Chimp API Key.  If you don't know what it is, just click the link that says "get one here":

 

 

Enter your API Key and click on "Save Changes".

 

Synching your Mail Chimp lists to ContactMe

 

The next screen you see will show the confirmation message that your Mail Chimp account has been linked to ContactMe.

When you link your Mail Chimp account to ContactMe, you have an option to sync certain Mail Chimp lists to your groups in ContactMe.  You will see the lists you currently have in Mail Chimp on this page:

 

 

If you have a custom field in one of your Mail Chimp lists, you have to select a corresponding field in ContactMe to sync it with.  You do that by selecting a corresponding field from the drop down list.

 

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SYNCHING ***

 

There are a few rules regarding the sync between ContactMe and Mail Chimp in order for the ongoing sync to work properly:

 

• First Name field in MailChimp should be called FNAME
• Email field should be called EMAIL
• MailChimp does not allow email addresses with the following domains to be added to their lists. Make sure none of your contacts in ContactMe end in these email domains:
  • @googlegroups.com
  • @yahoogroups.com
  • @mailinator.com
• Most Important: Do not make any field "REQUIRED" in MailChimp except the email field.

 

 

Once you are synched...

When you add a contact to a synched group in ContactMe, they will be added to the list in Mail Chimp.  The same thing happens when you remove contacts.  Remove a contact from your ContactMe group, it's removed from your Mail Chimp list.  This is a two-way sync, so this also applies if you add/remove a contact from Mail Chimp.

There is also another neat feature on your Contact Form that helps make the synching easier for you.  This feature adds a check box to your Contact Form, so that any contact who submits a form has the option to check a “Please add me to the mailing list” box:

 

 

If they check this box, ContactMe adds them to that group, and they are also synched to that list in Mail Chimp.  To turn on this feature, first you need to make sure you've got Mail Chimp checked to sync on the "Add-ons" page.  If not, you need to do that first (My Settings ==> Add Ons).

 

Then, click on "Settings" in the top right-hand menu, then "Forms":

 

 

or, you can click on "Add-Ons" from the orange menu, then "Contact Form" on the left:

 

 

Now click on "Edit Form" next to the form you want to sync with Mail Chimp:

 

 

On the next page under "Form Settings", check the box that says "Include Mailing List Checkbox".  You will see a list of your groups in Mail Chimp that you can select:

 

 

Here's how it will appear on your Contact Form.  Anyone that submits a form to you will have the option to select the checkbox: