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[Forminator Pro] How do I make Mailchimp integration signup optional on forms?

Hi! I just made an awesome form with form with Forminator and added the Mailchimp integration at the end. How can I make that optional?

I’d like to have an opt-in checkbox for the mailing list like “Check this box to subscribe to our newsletter”.

Sun, 7 Jun 2020 8:24:27
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  • Navneet Saraf
    • Ex Staff

    Hi Kieth

    Hope you are doing well.

    Though this feature has been requested to our developers a while back, I’m afraid, we’ve encountered some challenges in implementing this. This is still a work in progress and we’ll let you know once we have an update on it.

    In the meanwhile, to achieve this flow, you might want to use Mailchimp integration with double opt-in option enabled. With this, the user will get a confirmation email to signup for the Mailchimp mailing list in their email address.

    The following documentation can be helpful setting up the Mailchimp list:

    https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#mailchimp

    Hope this helps.

    Nav

  • Keith
    • The Bug Hunter

    Hi @Navneet+Saraf,

    Thanks for your answer. I think it will be quite a bit more useful once they figure out how to add that checkbox, so I’m looking forward to that.

    I did enable double opt-in, which is a step closer, but had to add a text field so the user wouldn’t be surprised that they were added to my newsletter.

    The Forminator documentation is pretty old and needs to be updated. Lists are now Audiences now, if I’m not mistaken.

    I enjoyed building this multipage form! I normally would have used Caldera, but went for it with Forminator. Once I got started it was much smoother than I expected. I do have a few suggestions, which I’ll drop in the feedback area soon.

    Thanks!

  • Navneet Saraf
    • Ex Staff

    Hi Kieth

    Hope you are doing well and thank you so much for reporting this.

    Our Forminator team have been notified about this and they should update the relevant documentations and plugin prompts at the earliest possible.

    Meanwhile, we’ll keep you posted about any update we have from them on your original feature request.

    Glad that you picked our plugin and enjoyed using it. We welcome your feedbacks, they help us improve. Thank you again. :slight_smile:

    Best Regards

    Nav

  • Damon
    • Recruit

    Came to the forums looking for how the “opt-in to mail list” is done in a forminator form. I’m really surprised you offer something like Mailchimp integration without “add me to the list” feature.

    I believe the way it works now is not really “double opt-in” at all, since the first time a user agrees to be added to a mailing list is when they receive the email generated by Mailchimp. ( and they only get that if forminator form is set to double opt-in.)

    So no “Active Consent” to attempt to add the user to the mail list.

    Hope you will get this fixed, I’m liking forminator but will have to go back to Gravity Forms until this is fixed.

  • Navneet Saraf
    • Ex Staff

    Hey Damon,

    Sorry for the time this is taking, there has have been some issues with the conditional logic implementation and our developers are working hard to resolve this at the soonest possible. We’ll update the thread once we hear back from them.

    We are constantly working to improve. Thank you for understanding.

    Best regards

    Nav

  • Stuart Wales
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi,

    I’d like to know if there is an update on this as well. It has been a few months since it was last discussed in this forum. Here in Europe we’re having to ensure active consent and although I understand that double opt in gives that, it would be stronger if the user had to consent to receive the opt in email in the first place.

    Thanks

  • Olivija Guzelyte
    • WP Core Meltdown

    Hi there all,

    Thank you for all of your responses!

    Like it was mentioned already – this feature is in the works, but no ETA for when it will be released yet.

    The good news is that there is a snippet provided by our Second Line Support team, which can serve as a temporary workaround. You can try adapting this snippet which sets a checkbox as toggle to add the user to the list.

    The snippet can be found here: https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/2123f0d60eb5c6f44c84ae9c3d1034a7

    Note to:
    1. Edit line 27 replacing the ‘campaignmonitor’ to ‘mailchimp’.
    2. On line 23 you need to enter the ID of your checkbox i.e.: ‘checkbox-1’.

    This can be added as an MU plugin. To get info on how to add it, see our guide:
    https://premium.wpmudev.org/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

    Let me know if you have further questions about this.

    Kind regards,
    Olivija