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Hello,

I have a question that I haven’t been able to figure out for awhile now and I was hoping someone might be able to shed a little light on it.

I use a database collection to capture all of my email subscribers. I setup a custom input box and button that connect to my database fields. I also use MailChimp to manage email marketing but my database collection remains the sole source of truth for my subscriber list.

There is a bunch of different ways I can get my subscribers list over to MailChimp and I was wondering if one way is any better than the other, particularly for speed.

  1. I could use a webhook that pushed data out from my database collection to MailChimp every time it changed.
  2. I could use the onclick event on the subscribe button and write some code to send the new entries to MailChimp in addition to my database collection.
  3. I could create a custom form in MailChimp and insert it onto my webpage. I would then need to send any new subscriber emails back to my database collection using a hook in MailChimp. I think I would also need to code the database collection to be able to accept post requests.
  4. I could use the custom html box to perform the same type of integration as 3.
  5. I could use a pop up box that’s connected to MailChimp and again send data back to my database collection.

I shied away from using wix’s default contact manager (and MailChimp integration) because I found it made my landing page load incredibly slow.

If anyone could offer any advice I would really appreciate it. I would love to know if there is any other way to go about this and which way offers the best experience.

Ryan Jenkins

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Hey
I would go a different way. I would crreate a Data Hook in your Wix Data Collection that triggers on updates in that particular Data Collection where you have your subscribers. In that hook I would create a backend module that would post the contents of the subscriber to Zapier and let Zapier update/create the subscriber for you. Zapier is super solid and this way you can work safely in Wix.

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Hey thanks Andreas,

I never considered Zapier before. That’s a great idea And literally does exactly what I’m trying to do. Thank you!

Can you integrate any IF This Then That type service with a wix backend module?

Ryan

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Hey Ryan
You could always make your own logic in the backend of Wix. What kind of IFTTT do you want?

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Well I use Microsoft Flow for a lot of things so I was just wondering if a service like that would be able to handle the same type of requests as Zapier.

Thanks again,

Ryan

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@ryan85 I do not know about Microsoft Flow having the feature to handle incoming POST requests and send outgoing ones. This is needed for you to handle the logic in Wix so that your Wix site can send Posts and Recieve Posts and handle that data.

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Well thanks for all of your help,

i set set up the zapier integrations and it works perfectly. I think I might be using zapier as my go to ifttt from now on.

Thanks again!