How to integrate widgets with MailerLite

How to integrate widgets with MailerLite

If you use MailerLite for email marketing and Getsitecontrol widgets to collect email addresses of your website visitors, you can easily connect the two apps to avoid having to manually export and import data. Simply choose the necessary mailing group and Getsitecontrol will add every new email subscriber to this group automatically.

Find the Integrations tab

You can connect your Getsitecontrol account to MailerLite when editing your widget. Choose the Integrations tab in the top bar.

Getsitecontrol dashboard with the highlighted Integrations bar

Connect your Getsitecontrol account to MailerLite

In the Third party integrations section, click the +Add application link and choose MailerLite from the drop-down list.

Integrations section with the highlighted MailerLite item in the dropdown list

Enter your MailerLite API key.

Integration settings modal window

How to find your API key in MailerLite Classic

To find your API key, log in to your MailerLite account, select Integrations from the drop-down menu under your user name. Click Use next to Developer API.

MailerLite API section with the highlighted Developer API sectionMailerLite API section with the highlighted Developer API section

On the next step, copy your API key.

API key section

Go back to Getsitecontrol and paste the key into the corresponding field. Click Save.

How to find your API token in MailerLite New version

To find your API key, log in to your MailerLite account click Integrations in the sidebar.

MailerLite dashboard

Find API and click Use.

Integrations page in MailerLite

On the next step, click Generate new token. Enter a name for your token, for example, Getsitecontrol. Click Create token and copy it.

Generate new token

Go back to Getsitecontrol and paste the token into the corresponding field. Click Save.

Select a group

You will then be offered to choose one of your existing MailerLite groups. Select the one you want the collected emails to be exported to.

Selecting a MailerLite mailing group

Map your widget fields

Make sure the fields of your widget are matched to those in the MailerLite group. Click the Map widget fields button to check that the fields are properly matched. You can read more about field mapping here.

Widget fields mapping modal window

When you are done mapping the fields, click OK. That’s it. Now all new contacts will be automatically copied to the MailerLite group you have specified.

You can connect your widget to more than one third-party application. Click the +Add application link to add another integration for the current widget.

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