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Newsletter Integrations

BillaBear comes with integrations to newsletter systems such as MailChimp and EmailOctopus. This allows you to automatically add customers to your newsletters.

Newsletter Overview

List Types​

There are two kinds of newsletters you can add customers to:

Marketing List​

There is a marketing newsletter list option, for customers to be added to this list it needs to opt into marketing which is a property on the customer that can be toggled and set upon creation.

Announcement List​

This is a newletter option for when you want to be able to send announcement to all customers and is not a marketing email.

Integrations​

MailChimp​

To use MailChimp you need to get the API key from the MailChimp dashboard.

You can find it by:

  • By clicking your profile image in the top right hand corner and going to Profile.
  • Then by clicking Extras and choosing API Keys.
  • Then click add API key

You need need to enter the API key as well as the server prefix for your account.

EmailOctopus​

To use EmailOctopus you need to get the API key from the EmailOctopus dashboard.

You can find it by:

  • clicking on your profile image on the top right hand corner and going to Integrations & API.
  • Then clicking the API option.
  • And next click Add a Key.
  • And enter the name for the API key you want to give it.