Using Mailchimp with Squarespace (video tutorial)
Using Mailchimp with Squarespace is really simple! In this Squarespace video tutorial I'll show you how to connect your Mailchimp account to your Squarespace website in under 5 minutes.
Step by step instructions
Once you're in edit mode on the page you want to add your Mailchimp sign up form...
Click + button to add a block
Select the Newsletter block
Click on the Storage tab of the Newsletter editor pop-up
Click into Squarespace and disconnect
Click into "Other storage options"
Click the Mailchimp "Connect" button
Login to Mailchimp through the new pop-up
If you have multiple accounts under your login, select the account you want to connect to your form
Click "Allow" to authorize Squarespace to connect to your Mailchimp account
Once connected, select your email list from the drop-down
Go Back in the Newsletter pop-up
Click into Content tab of Newsletter pop-up to edit form name as well as form sign up text shown on page
Optional: toggle "Require name field" on
Save!
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Video Transcript
If you have a Mailchimp email list and a Squarespace website and you want to connect to the two you've come to the right place I'm going to show you how to add an email sign up form that links to MailChimp.
I'll show you how to do it right here on this page of my own website. And if we haven't met or if you haven't watched a video before I'm Katherine Forbes founder of Designing the Row and I'm here to help you turn your creativity into a professionally designed online brand.
So let's get into it. I'm going to come into a edit mode of my website. I am on a 7.0 website which is the last editor of Squarespace so yours might like a tiny bit different but it is going to operate the same once we're in edit mode.
I'm going to click the plus button to add a block and I'm going to come down to newsletter right here.
And then what we want to do is click over here to storage. Now it's going to default to have your subscribers go to the Squarespace email marketing list. So I click into here and disconnect. And then let's go into other storage options. Click connect next to MailChimp. It will have you log into MailChimp.
If you have that two factor authentication it will usually bypass that sometimes not. There we go. I've got several different access points on here so I'm going to click Designing the Row. Go into my account, authorize Squarespace to connect to my MailChimp account. And you can see once that loads it says a list must be selected. So I'm going to click this drop down and come to Designing the Row (I have lots of lists, but I don't actually use MailChimp anymore… I use it for example purposes) but Designing the Row, and require double opt in is the default.
Next we're going to go back and back and that is how you connect it if you want to then edit what you see here the subscribe text you can do that here under the content tab and don't forget to customize this form name to whatever you'd like and change the title here. You can see it automatically changed right on the page same with this text right here if you want to update that and the disclaimer as well.
If you want to require the name field, which is something I actually do recommend then you can email people and use their first name it feels much more personalized need that you can toggle that on and then you should be good to go.
Click out of that pop up box there save the page and there is your email list connected to your MailChimp list.
And that is all you have to do!
If you are working on your website and you would like some branding guidance, I have a free website branding worksheet and video guide that you can get by going here.
Thank you so much for watching this video and I will see you in the next one!
