Do you want to add users to your Sendinblue email list through your WordPress forms? If so, you can use the Sendinblue addon from WPForms. With it, you may subscribe, unsubscribe, and remove users from your Sendinblue account. All this is possible once your visitors submit your form.
In this post, I’ll talk about how to connect Sendinblue with WPForms in 5 handy simple steps. I hope you like and share this article.
Connect Sendinblue with WPForms
Are you ready to learn how to connect Sendinblue with WPForms in WordPress? First, you get a little info about Sendinblue, and after that, WPForms.
What is Sendinblue?
Sendinblue is a company that started in 2007. The founders are Armand Thiberge and Kapil Sharma. You will find the headquarters in Paris. They also have offices in Germany, India, and USA.
Sendinblue offers you a cloud-based software package for marketing. Their services include email marketing, marketing automation, Facebook ads, and SMS marketing.
What is WPForms?
WPForms launched in 2016. Syed Balkhi and Jared Atchison are the founders of this WordPress plugin.
WPForms has many followers and users. At present, more than 4 million WordPress sites actively employ it. Over 8,000 people give it five stars on the WordPress.org plugin directory. This plugin has over 60 million downloads.
WPForms may be the most newbie-friendly contact form plugin of WordPress today. Their drag-and-drop form builder lets you make forms. Quickly and easily. You can create contact forms, email subscription forms, payment forms, etc.
Note: The instructions below only regard once you plan to make a brand-new install of WPForms. Do you upgrade from WPForms Lite? If so, you read the following tutorial: How to upgrade from WPForms Lite to a paid license.
Once you buy a WPForms Plus Pack or above, the Sendinblue addon is available. Hit the button to get WPForms and the Sendinblue addon at 50% Off:
*Do you wish to follow our tutorial to the end? Buy WPForms Plus Pack or above. Also, create a free Sendinblue account. It’s easy. Just continue to read.
1. How to download the WPForms plugin
- 1. Log into your WPForms account. No account? Buy WPForms Plus 50% Off.
- 2. You click the Downloads tab.
- 3. There you click the button Download WPForms.
- 4. It saves the paid WPForms-plugin in a zip file on your device.
Note: Now and then, the file might unzip once you download it and show up as a plain folder. But yet, the folder must be a zip file, since you are using the WordPress plugin upload area.
Do you need further help with how to zip and unzip files?
Have you downloaded the WPForms plugin? Great!
There are some more steps to take before you learn how to connect Sendinblue with WPForms. So go ahead and read this article to the end.
2. How to install the WPForms plugin
- 1. Log in as an administrator to your WordPress site. Make sure you change “yourdomain.com” to your real domain name. You get access to your WordPress login screen at, for example, mycars.com/wp-admin.
- 2. Go to Plugins » Add New.
- 3. Now you click on the button Upload Plugin.
- 4. Click on Choose File and pick your downloaded WPForms zip-file.
- 5. You click the button Install Now.
- 6. Lastly, click on the button Activate.
After you’ve activated this plugin, move on and verify your WPForms license key. By doing so, you get automatic updates, as well as plugin support.
Do you plan to add your license key? It enables you to
install and activate WPForms Addons directly in your WordPress dashboard.
Note: Once buying a WPForms Plus pack or above, the Sendinblue-addon is available. Hit the button to get WPForms and the Sendinblue addon at 50% Off:
*Do you wish to follow our tutorial to the end? Buy WPForms Plus Pack or above. Also, create a free Sendinblue account. It’s easy.
You can begin to create a free account here. No charge at all.
Do you already have a Sendinblue account? Just log in here.
Their free plan lets you send 300 emails a day. Thus, you may send 9,000 emails a month if you want. And that’s a lot for free.
The cost of Sendinblue is good enough compared to further competitors. For instance, the free plan of Mailchimp only lets you add 2,000 contacts to all lists. With Sendinblue, you can save unlimited contacts on all plans. Besides, already once you pick the free plan.
Sendinblue also offers paid plans. They are Starter, Business, and Plus.
3. Connect Sendinblue with WPForms – create your account
But what is required by you to follow our tutorial? It’s enough to create a free Sendinblue account. You can register a free account here.
4. How to install the Sendinblue’s addon
Thanks to the Sendinblue’s addon, it’s possible to subscribe, unsubscribe or remove users in email lists, and track events.
Have you finished the process of installing and activating WPForms? Great! Now it’s time to install the addon for Sendinblue. Just follow along.
- 1. Start by going to WPForms » Addons.
- 2. There, you click the tab Integrations.
- 3. Click the option of Sendinblue to show its settings.
- 4. Hit the button +Add New Account.
- 5. You see two fields: API Key for your Sendinblue’s account and Nickname.
- 6. Log in to your account of Sendinblue. There you will locate the API Key.
- 7. You click the primary menu in the upper right corner. Choose SMTP & API.
- 8. The API Key shows. Copy the key.
- 9. Go to WPForms » Settings. Paste the API-Key in the field Sendinblue API Key. Enter your nickname into the field Sendinblue Account Nickname.
- 10. You hit the button Connect to Sendinblue.
WPForms now connects your website to the Sendinblue account you have. Once done, it shows a green marked Connected status beside the Sendinblue integration.
5. Create an integration of Sendinblue to your site forms
Now you have connected your account to Sendinblue. Good work!
It’s time to append Sendinblue to one of your forms. But first, you must be creating a brand new form with relevant fields. Do you already have a form? If so, you can use and modify that form. Then follow these steps:
- 1. In the form-builder, you goto Marketing » Sendinblue.
- 2. Hit the button Add New Connection on the tab for Sendinblue. As you click that button, a window opens where you could enter a nickname of the connection. Choose any nickname, since it’s only for your reference.
- 3. Do you use other Sendinblue accounts connected to WPForms? If so, you could pick one of the accounts you wish to use in the drop-down list for Select Account.
- 4. Choose action as your visitors complete and submit the form under Action To Perform. In our example, we pick Subscribe. That action will insert users straight into our Sendinblue contacts.
When you have selected the action to take place, there are some more settings to configure. I describe those options below. Required fields will have an asterisk after.
Email:* Choose the field in WPForms that holds the subscriber’s email address.
New Email: Choose the field in WPForms that holds the new e-mail address of the subscriber. The field is just needed to update an existent Sendinblue contact. That’s why we let this field be empty in our case.
List:* Pick the list in Sendinblue where you want to add the subscriber.
You can also map all custom fields that become inserted into your account of Sendinblue. It’s possible to do in the section for Custom Field Name.
Connect Sendinblue with WPForms: Summary
Are you done configuring all your settings? Ensure you don’t forget to save the form. That’s all. Now you know how to connect Sendinblue with WPForms in 5 simple steps.
I hope you learned something from our tutorial.
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