Setting up Mailchimp Integration
Academy of Mine provides clients with a Mailchimp Integration, Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps you manage and talk to your clients, customers, and other interested parties.
This integration will recognize LMS events such as New Account Created. Once a new user is added, it will create a member in Mailchimp as well.
In this guide, we will go through how to activate and configure your Mailchimp integration.
Step 1: Open Mailchimp Integration Settings
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From the Admin Dashboard, select the Integrations tab
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Locate the Mailchimp integration option and click Manage
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Here, you can see the information that you'll need to configure and add from Mailchimp in the following steps
Step 2: Configure Mailchimp Keys & Add to AOM
- Open a new tab and navigate to the Mailchimp Account, log in if u have an account already, or click on Create an account to create a new account.
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You will receive an email to the registered mail ID, click on Activate Account over there.
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Once clicked it will navigate back to the Mailchimp account.
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Fill in the required fields
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Select desired plan
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Once everything is done, you will be redirected to Dashboard.
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Once you have logged into your Mailchimp, open a new tab once again and navigate here. This is where you are going to configure the keys needed by the AOM LMS
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Click on Create Key.
- Provide necessary data and click on Generate Key.
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Copy the generated key to add to the LMS.
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You will find the server prefix in the Mailchimp account URL, eg - us14, us15
- Switch back to our LMS dashboard.
- Enable Mailchimp by toggling.
- Add your API key, and server prefix , and click on Save&Authorize.
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Once authorized, you will see the notification pop-up in the top right corner.
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Click on Add Endpoint, to select the Audience (list) and event and click on Save.
- Now once a new account is created, that user will be added into the selected list (Audience) on Mailchimp.
- You can verify this on your MailChimp account. Click on All Contacts in your Mailchimp dashboard to see the users list.