Idiot-proof 3rd party email sending (Mailchimp, Sendinblue)

Hi fellow Bubblers - long-time no see!

I would like to connect my app to a mailing list provider, like Mailchimp, so I can email our users from that system. These would initially be manual, newsletter-like emails, rather than transactional emails.

I need all users from our app imported, with just some way of segregating types of users based on a yes/no fields in my Bubble Users table. New users to be added to the mailing list(s) as they sign up.

Which is the easiest 3rd party service to integrate - i.e. which plugin has good step-by-step instructions for people who basically don’t know how to work with APIs? I need a ELI5 version!

There are so many plugins, of varying ages with such questionable reviews and usually pretty unclear instructions, I am not sure with which service I should start.

Thanks!

I use PostMark and found this free plugin good & easy to set up Richer Postmark emails plugin ✉ [Update of 16 march 2021]

PostMark is great in terms of deliverability but the free plan is much more limited (in terms of number of mails that can be sent) than something like MailChimp. However, it’s only $10 pm for 10k emails, so I guess it depends on what kind of volume you want to send.

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thanks! My app is a hobby project, which makes no money. I pay for Bubble for the love of it, but would prefer not to pay for the email service. Unfortunately even that free plan looks too limited. I only have a couple of hundred users, but would like to be able to send one newsletter to them all at once.

MailChimp probably your best option then in terms of what you get for free.

I recommend MailerLite; they have a free plan. There is a plugin for that called MailerLite Extended or something like that. Alternately, you can use the API connector if you have experience with that.

Thanks Johnny.

In the end, I managed to get Mailchimp working quite well.

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