If your app/website is built using WordPress, you can use the MailBluster WordPress plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailbluster4wp and install it. Then create a signup form and add it to your page/post.
After installing the MailBluster WordPress Plugin, you’ll need to connect your MailBluster Brand from the main app with the MailBluster WordPress Plugin using the API key. A new item named MailBluster on the admin menu will appear after installing the plugin on your wordpress site.
Click on the Configure MailBluster API Key. It will redirect you to the API Key configuration page. Here you need to provide the API Key from MailBluster.
Sign in to MailBluster, go to Settings > API Keys and then click on Create new API key.
Name your API key and click on Create API key.
An API key will be generated. Copy the API key from MailBluster.
Paste it into the MailBluster API configuration field of your WordPress website and click the Save Changes button. Congrats! Your MailBluster Brand is now connected with the website as shown above!
The default rate limit for MailBluster Developer API is 10 requests/second and 100 requests/minute.
And, you cannot update multiple leads using MailBluster DeveloperAPI. Only single lead can be added at a time. Same goes for update and delete through the Developer API.
If you want to import more than one lead at a time, then you need to use the MailBluster main app.
You need to customize Shopify to send the lead information to MailBluster using the developer API when a customer signs up to the Shopify store. Technical knowledge is required to use the MailBluster Developer API.
If your app/website is built using WordPress, you can use MailBluster WordPress plugin to create a subscribe form and add it to your page/post. WordPress Plugin for MailBluster allows the site visitors to become subscribers through a subscribe form which will automatically add them to the MailBluster mailing list without doing anything manually.
MailBluster Developer API is not designed for sending and receiving emails, i.e. Bulk emailing. However, MailBluster Developer API allows to control your leads, managing products, and ecommerce activities from outside of your MailBluster account.
The API is specifically designed to control Leads, Fields, Products and Orders. In simple words, the Developer API is designed to collect leads from the client’s website. It is not capable of sending emails.
Lead hash is the md5 encrypted value of lead’s email. To obtain the MD5 hash value of your lead’s email, you can use various MD5 generator tools available online. One such tool is located at MD5 Hash Generator. Simply input the email address of your lead into the tool, and it will generate the corresponding MD5 hash value, which is known as {lead_hash}
Then, you will need to send a GET request to read the specific lead to this API endpoint: https://api.mailbluster.com/api/leads/{lead_hash}
Depending on your ability to edit the website code, there are three possible scenarios to add the MailBluster form to a WordPress site:
1. If you manage your website’s code, you can add it there yourself. Inline forms should go inside the body tag wherever you want to display the form. Pop-up forms should go just before the closing body tag.
2. If your website has a dedicated webmaster or web admin, you can forward the code to them, and they can publish the form for you.
3. If you created your website using a builder tool, you could contact the support of your website builder to ask for instructions specific to their tool.
MailBluster does have Gravity Forms integration option. The Gravity Forms Webhooks add-on allows you to send your form data from your WordPress website to an external app or service. You will find this guide very helpful while integrating the plugin into your website.
MailBluster doesn’t provide direct sync support for the Shopify website yet.
But you can integrate MailBluster into Shopify using these two ways:
1. Using MailBluster developer API (https://app.mailbluster.com/api-doc) You need to customize Shopify to send the lead information to MailBluster using the developer API when a customer signs up to your store. You need to have the technical knowledge to do this or need help from a software developer.
2. Using Make (formerly Integromat). You need to create a scenario on Make to connect Shopify with MailBluster.
For both Shopify and MailBluster, you need to create a new connection on Make that is not shown in the video. For MailBluster, you just need to create a new API key from Settings > API Keys page from MailBluster and provide the Key in Make.