In this article we are showing how to strategically connect two most powerful business tools- WPForms & SendInBlue.
If you are new to these two tools, let’s take a quick look at what makes these tools powerful and why you should use them to accelerate your online marketing game.
WPForms
As the name implies, WPForms is a WordPress form builder with powerful & most advanced capabilities such as drag-and-drop builder, beautiful templates, default responsiveness, smart condition logic, instant notifications, leads management, multi-page forms, file upload capability, payment gateway integration, user registration modules, free spam prevention & protection from bots, integration with automation and email tools, digital signature, form abandon followup, user journey mapping, and lot more… you name it!!!
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Sendinblue
Sendinblue is the smartest and most intuitive email marketing and automation solution. Sendinblue helps you to:
- Communicate
- Email Marketing
- SMS Marketing
- Chat
- Personalize
- CRM
- Marketing Automation
- Transaction Email
- Segmentation
- Convert
- Landing Pages
- Signup Forms
- Facebook Ads
- Improve
- Open & Click-through Reports
- Email Heat Map
- A/B Testing
- Real-time Statistics
- Send Time Optimization
- Integrate
- API
- Plugins
So, I hope you got a better idea about WPForms & Sendinblue.
Let’s dig into the integrate of WPForms and Sendinblue to accelerate your marketing game.
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Install WPForms, Develop Form & Install Sendinblue addon
Before getting started, we need make sure that the WPForms plugin installed and the website forms are developed using WPForms.
Here’s how to create multi-page forms in WordPress using WPForms. You can use the same guide itself for developing simple forms as well.
Once you install the WPForms and created your first form, you’ll need to install and activate the addon of Sendinblue for WPForms:
- Navigate to WPForms » Addons on your WordPress dashboard.
- If you can’t see any addons, click Refresh Addons button to force a refresh.
- Search for Sendinblue addon
- Click on Install Addon and make sure the status is Active in green
Congratulations! You’re ready for the integration game.
WPForms & Sendinblue Integration
Once the Sendinblue addon is installed and activated on your WPForms, you are ready to connect your Sendinblue account with WPForms using their powerful API capabilities without writing any single line of code.
To do this, go to WPForms » Settings and click on the Integrations tab on your WordPress.
Then click on the Sendinblue option to expand its settings. And then you can click on Add New Account.
It will expand the Sendinblue API information fields to connect your account.
It’s easy to find this information from Sendinblue account. Once you’ve logged in to Sendinblue, click on the main menu (located on the top right corner of the page) and select SMTP & API option.
You can see your API information here.
Go ahead copy the API code and install it on your WPForms field.
Then you can put any name on the Nickname field to identify this account correctly. This is an important step if you have multiple Sendinblue accounts to be connected with WPForms.
Once you’re ready, go ahead and click on the Connect to Sendinblue button.
WPForms will now connect to your Sendinblue account, and once the connection in successful it will show a green Connected status.
Adding Sendinblue integration to WPForms form
Once you’ve successfully connected your Sendinblue account, it’s time to add Sendinblue integration to your forms.
Please note: You’ll need to do this step for each forms individually to get thenm connected to Sendinblue.
Open your form, and within the form builder, go to Marketing » Sendinblue. Then, in the Sendinblue tab, click on the Add New Connection button.
You will be prompted to provide a nickname for this connection. You can enter anything here as it is just for internal purpose only.
If you’ve more than one Sendinblue account connected to WPForms, you need to select appropriate Sendinblue account from the Select Account drop down.
Then, under Action to Perform, select the action you’d like to happen when users submit your form. For our example, we’ll select Subscribe to add users to our Sendinblue contacts.
Once you have selected to the action to perform, additional settings will be enabled for you to configure the field mapping.
See below to know more about each field here:
- Email:* Select the WPForms field that will contain the subscriber’s email address.
- New Email: Select the WPForms field that would contain the new email address of the subscriber. This field is only necessary when updating an existing contact in Sendinblue, so for our example, we’ll leave this field blank.
- List:* Select the Sendinblue list that you’d like the subscriber to be added to.
If you’ve custom fields to be integrated, you can do the same under the Custom Field Name section.
Once you’ve done all this settings and configuration, be sure to save the form.
That’s it, sparkyyy! We just integrated your WPForms WordPress form with Sendinblue.
Do you have any questions? feel free to drop us a comment below and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
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