MailChimp | Tips and Tricks WP eCommerce

Want to keep your buyers up to speed on your newest products or specials? This guide will help you use MailChimp for WP Shopping Cart to automatically add customers to a mailing list when they purchase your products.

screenshot showing the mailchimp account dashboard

Installing the Addon

You can install this addon the same way you install any WordPress plugin:

Go to the Add New plugins screen in your WordPress admin area
Click the upload tab
Browse for the addon file (simple-cart-mailchimp-integration.zip)
Click Install Now and then activate the plugin

Setup and Configuration

Step 1) Create your list on MailChimp

To use the addon, you’ll need to have a MailChimp account, so create one now if you don’t already have one. Once you have signed into your MailChimp account, you can select Lists from the menu to create a new mailing list, or choose from lists you’ve created previously.

Step 2) Find and add your List Name

In your MailChimp account, open your list and select List Name & Defaults from the Settings menu. Copy the List Name displayed here to your clipboard.

screenshot showing how to find the mailchimp list id

Step 3) Enter the Mailchimp List Name in the Addon Settings

Now open MailChimp Addon Settings from the admin dashboard of your WordPress site, and paste the List Name you just copied into the List Name field.

simple-cart-mailchimp-addon-settings

Step 4) Create and add your API Key

In your MailChimp account, open your account/user page and get the API Key. Copy the long string of numbers and letters from the API Key field to your clipboard.

screenshot showing how to find the mailchimp api keys

In MailChimp Addon Settings, paste the text you just copied into the API Key field.

Step 5) Additional settings

Finally, determine if you need to change any of the additional settings. The default options work fine out-of-the-box.

Now, when you get an order via the simple shopping cart plugin, that customer will get added to your mailchimp list.

Get the Simple Cart MailChimp Addon

The price of this addon is $29

The WP eStore shopping cart plugin can be easily integrated with MailChimp (Email marketing and Email list manager).

The users are added to your MailChimp list when any of the following event happens:

A customer purchases a product.
A visitor submits a squeeze form for a product.

Video Tutorial on WP eStore MailChimp Integration

To integrate MailChimp with WP eStore simply go to the “Autoresponder Settings” tab from the eStore Settings menu and configure it.

Check the “Enable MailChimp Integration” checkbox then enter your MailChimp API details to set it up.

You can specify a list name on a per product basis too (useful when you want to signup your customers to a different list for different products).

MailChimp Integration Settings Menu

Using MailChimp Interest Groups

You can add interest groups when a customer is added to your MailChimp list too.

Add the interest group data in the “List Name” field of a product like the following:

List Name | groupname1, groupname2

Lets say you have the following scenario:

List Name: my-list-1
Interest Group Names: groupname1, groupname2

Then you would enter the following in the list name field of the eStore product configuration:

my-list-1 | groupname1, groupname2

WP Shopping Cart and MailChimp Integration