Use checkboxes assign a subscriber to a specific Mail Chimp segment

Hi Catateu,

You can add as many fields to your forms as you like. I’d have to look into segments though. I’ll let you know later today.

Danny,

Thanks for your quick response. That would be great if you could tell me anything about segmenting, or if that doesn’t work whether I could use those check boxes to assign subscribers to different mailing lists. Thanks a bunch.

Hi Catateu,

Are you talking about MailChimp list segments here or you just want to create different groupings?

You can add an interest grouping to your list (in MailChimp) and create a MailChimp segment based on the value(s) of this grouping.

To add the grouping checkboxes to your sign-up forms, just use the “add field” tool.

How to create an interest grouping in MailChimp
1. Log into MailChimp, go to Lists and select one of your lists.
2. Click on Manage Subscribers and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
3. Create your Grouping with some Groups to choose from.

https://kb.mailchimp.com/article/what-is-a-group-and-why-would-i-want-to-set-one-up

I hope that helps!

Danny,

Thanks, groups will do me fine. So as for integrating the sign up form with groupings, if I upgrade to the pro version, I will be able to add fields for the groupings under the ‘Add a new field’ dropdown in the forms section of the plugin?

Finally, could I have separate submit buttons for each grouping? So if I’m a teacher, rather than checking a box next to “teacher” and then clicking a submit button, I would have three submit buttons, one that says “I’m a teacher,” another that says “I’m an administrator,” etc.

Yes to both. ??

Although the Lite version also includes 1 of your interest groupings in the Add new MailChimp field tool in the Forms settings page of the plugin, so you could do it without upgrading to Pro if you want as well.

By default, the “add field” tool will generate checkboxes, a select dropdown or radio buttons for your groups (per your setting in MailChimp) but you can definitely change this to buttons.

The HTML will have to look something like this.

<input type="submit" name="GROUPINGS[5423]" value="I'm a teacher" />
<input type="submit" name="GROUPINGS[5423]" value="I'm a administrator" />
<input type="submit" name="GROUPINGS[5423]" value="I'm a student" />

In the example, 5423 is your Grouping ID. The “add field” tool can help you with this.

Good luck!

Rockin, thanks again Danny for all your help and for a nice plugin.