Mailchimp integration

Not available yet

Email campaigns aren't available in Venuesmith yet. Today Venuesmith publishes to Instagram and Facebook. This page describes how email will work when it launches.

Venuesmith will send email campaigns to your CaptiFi WiFi guest lists by default. If you already keep an audience in Mailchimp, you'll be able to send through your own Mailchimp account instead.

Before you start

In Mailchimp you'll need:

• An API key. In your Mailchimp profile, open Extras → API keys and click Create A Key. It ends in your data centre, for example -us21.
• The ID of the audience you want to send to. It's under Audience → All contacts → Settings → Audience name and defaults.

Connecting Mailchimp

You need to be a workspace owner or admin.

1. In Venuesmith, open Settings and find Email provider.
2. Set Provider to Mailchimp.
3. Fill in Mailchimp API key, Audience (list) id, From email and From name. The from email is the address your subscribers see the campaign come from.
4. Click Save provider.

Sending through Mailchimp

With Mailchimp as the provider, your scheduled email campaigns go out from your Mailchimp account to that audience, in place of CaptiFi. Create and schedule campaigns the same way as before (see Email campaigns).

CaptiFi or Mailchimp?

	CaptiFi	Mailchimp
Audience	WiFi guests captured at your venue	Your existing Mailchimp audience
Setup	Link your CaptiFi site from the location's Email tab	Settings → Email provider
Stats	Synced back into Venuesmith	In your Mailchimp reports

Switching back

Open Settings → Email provider, set Provider back to CaptiFi (default) and click Save provider.