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Connect & Sync MailChimp to Any Application

December 30th, 2008 | by Ben

Using the MailChimp API, you can connect and sync just about any application with your MailChimp account. And we’re not just talking about passing emails back and forth. We’re talking about every tiny little stat you could ever want. Your affiliate links. Your segments. Batch subs & unsubs. Updating member info. Interest groups. Segments. IP address and signup datestamps.

Batchbook (a cool online CRM) recently linked all of their users’ accounts with MailChimp.

We’ve seen MailChimp users create entire extranets for their clients using the API.

It’s extremely powerful, because we have an API team that’s dedicated to nothing BUT developing new features and integrations with the API. And it’s totally free. Check out the API documentation, and here’s a sea of logos from applications we’ve linked to, or created plugins for, with the API:

Note: that image is a slide from a recent presentation. The “Salesforce” and “Highrise” integrations are going live in January-ish with our v4 launch. If you’ve created an interesting integration with MailChimp’s API, or if you’ve used one of our plugins, please comment below. We want to showcase your work!

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15 Comments

    • Justin Wiley says:

      I’ve been working with your API on a Ruby on Rails project, and so far it has worked out great. I’m wondering however if there is a sandbox available for testing? I poked around the API docs and didn’t see one…

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    • Johan Trip says:

      I will go online with a Django project, any API for that?

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    • Jesse says:

      @Justin Wiley – There’s not a sandbox. Most folks either have an extra list just for testing or setup a development account

      @Johan Trip – I’m not aware of anything Django specific, but there is a Python wrapper for the API on our downloads page – http://www.mailchimp.com/api/downloads

      Also feel free to contact me via api _at_ mailchimp -dot- com for further discussions

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    • jodwyer@roadrunner.com says:

      Will you be adding ACT by Sage Software as one of the CRMs that interface with mailchimp?

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    • Christy says:

      Excellent! The only remaining questions about MailChimp for me were whether it has an integrated autoresponder and plugin for Magento. I read the autoresponder is coming soon and a Magento plugin is available! Woohoo! Can’t wait to get off Constant Contact!

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    • Derek says:

      Excellent to see a few CRM’s on the list! Really hoping for a SugarCRM integration plugin. Is that on the plan anywhere or know of anyone who’s done it?

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    • Euan says:

      It’s a shame you don’t yet have an API plugin for the CMS that is actually used to power your own website.

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      • Ben says:

        I’m not 100% positive about this, but I think you’re suggesting that you want a plugin for expression engine(?). We’re new to EE ourselves, so that’s why we haven’t built one yet. But we’re looking into it.

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    • Scott says:

      We would love to see a magento integration for subscribing customers from within the my account section as well as the subscribe link at the bottom of the page. We think this would bring mailchimp a lot of future business.

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    • newbie66 says:

      i have added the mailchimp api to my drupal site but how do i get the user registration form information passed to my mailchimp list. in drupal i have selected user variables to send to mailchimp as merge variables and the the mailchimp configuration is set for subscriptions to take place when a user is added or edited.

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    • Tim says:

      we’re looking into integrating mailchimp with MS dynamics CRM. any experience with or plans to integrate with microsoft crm products? they have an SDK so I’m sure its possible, I was looking for level of difficulty and whether anyone has done it.

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