Exporting to Mailchimp
This article applies to the Email builder in all plans.
Level up your emails in Mailchimp
You can easily design your emails in the Beefree builder and then push them to Mailchimp for sending. Our connector allows you to export an email to Mailchimp with only one click.
Here are 2 ways that you can connect your Mailchimp account in Beefree:
- From the Workspace Settings section: connect your Mailchimp account before you start designing.
- From the Export options of your email.
Follow the steps below or watch our Beefree Academy tutorial.
1. Connect from Workspace Settings
Go to Settings > Connectors.
Click the Connect button for Mailchimp.
A popup window will open. Sign into your Mailchimp account to complete the connector setup. Please note that your Mailchimp credentials are not stored in Beefree. They are just used to connect your accounts.
2. Connect from Export
When your email is ready, click on the Export button on the Email Details page. This option is also available from the actions menu for your email.
Click on the Integrations icon for Mailchimp. If you don’t see it from this screen, click More to see all the connectors.
In the Integrations screen, scroll or search for Mailchimp. Click on the icon and follow the steps to connect your accounts. If you have already connected, you will not be asked to do so again.
Beefree will confirm that the design has been successfully exported. You will see it appear in your Mailchimp account.
Your email will appear in Mailchimp as a new template. You can find it in your list of templates within a few seconds.
Additional questions? Read our blog post!
Update your Beefree email designs in Mailchimp
The Beefree will recognize if you are exporting an updated version of your email design to Mailchimp. Upon this recognition, the Beefree will ask if you’d to select one of the following options:
- Update your current email design within Mailchimp.
- Create a new email in Mailchimp with the same design.
You can use either of these options to apply changes to existing email designs and export them to Mailchimp.
Use our no-code builder and avoid Mailchimp code editor
Revisiting your email design within the Beefree allows you to update it as needed over time without the hassle of editing it inside the Mailchimp HTML code editor. This method of maintaining and updating your email designs provides you with the continued benefit of a no-code approach to email creation. Use this feature to update your email designs quickly and without hard coding your changes.
Update Existing Emails in Mailchimp Steps
Take the following steps to update an email design within Beefree and export it to Mailchimp:
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Log in to the Beefree.
- Navigate to your email design.
- Enter the email design.
- Apply the changes you’d like to make to your design.
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Click Export on the upper right-hand side of the screen.
- Select the Push to your sending system option.
- Select Mailchimp from the list of options.
4. Select one of available options:
- Create as new
- Update existing.
5. Once you select one of these options, the Beefree will send your email in the version and to the destination you selected.
Export Emails to Folders
You can export email templates from Beefree directly to one of your folders within Mailchimp.
Take the following steps to export an email template from Beefree to your Mailchimp folder.
- Log in to Beefree.
- Enter the email design you’d like to export to a Mailchimp folder.
- Click the Export button on the upper right-hand side of the screen.
- Select the Push to your sending system option.
- Select Mailchimp as your sending system.
You will be prompted to the following modal.
- In the Mailchimp template folder section, click the drop-down menu and select a folder from the available folder options.
Note: If the folder you are looking for does not exist, follow the instructions outlined in the Organize Campaigns into Folders article by Mailchimp to create one.
- Click Create to confirm and complete the export from Beefree to Mailchimp.
The following image displays an example of the exported email template within Mailchimp.
In the following image, you can see the email template within the folder selected in the Folder drop-down menu.
Export Emails to Campaigns
You can export email templates from Beefree directly to one of your Campaigns within Mailchimp.
Take the following steps to export an email template from Beefree to your Mailchimp Campaign.
- Ensure you complete steps 1-5 defined in the Export Emails to Folders section.
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When you arrive at the following modal, toggle the Create a campaign along with the template option to on.
- Select a campaign folder from the Mailchimp campaign folder drop-down menu.
Note: If you type in the field, you can search for your folder. If you select the default one, the email goes to the Campaigns section in the unfiled campaigns.
- Click Create.
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Click Go to Mailchimp to see your Beefree email template within Mailchimp.
You will be redirected to the following screen within Mailchimp.
Export Preheaders
You can export preheaders from Beefree to Mailchimp. When you export your email from Beefree to Mailchimp, ensure you complete the preheader field within Beefree to see it within Mailchimp.
Take the steps outlined in the Using Preheaders and UTMs article to add a preheader to your Beefree design.
Once you export your design to Mailchimp as a Campaign, you will find your preheader in the Preview Text field under the Subject section.
If you export your design to Mailchimp as a Template, you will not find your preheader in the HTML or in the Preview Text under the Subject section, because these fields are not available for templates. However, you will be able to add it when you create a campaign from your exported template.
Note: This export behavior is not retroactive and will only apply exports performed after January 21, 2025.
Additional Considerations
Consider the following when exporting to Mailchimp:
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Once the email has been exported in Campaigns, you can:
- Rename the email template.
- Edit content and settings through the Mailchimp editor. Please note that Beefree does not recommend this option, but rather that you leverage the Update existing option to make changes to your design and then re-export them to Mailchimp.
- You can click the link provided in Beefree and land directly in the email in Mailchimp with the code editor open.
Multiple Workspaces / Customers
Do you work with multiple brands or clients and need to easily manage all your emails and templates?
No problem! The Enterprise Version of Beefree allows you to set up different workspaces so you can better organize your email creation workflow. Enterprise allows you to specify different connectors for each workspace, so you never need to switch accounts.
For example, say you are a digital marketing enterprise with 10 clients that all use Mailchimp. With Enterprise, you will be able to create 10 workspaces in Beefree and connect each of them to their specific Mailchimp account.
Looking for a different sending platform? You can check our complete list of connectors for Beefree — or request a new one!
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Comments
15 comments
Will I be able to do the opposite? Import HTML email template to BEE plugin?
At the moment that is not possible. The good thing is... it's really easy and fast to use the BEE editor, so you should be able to recreate whatever HTML message in BEE rather quickly.
Pushing a message to Mailchimp would be great in the plugin version
I am a novice at this so please forgive my ignorance. I am using Reachmail as an email service provider. Their editor isn't user friendly so I have created a test newsletter in Bee and want to import the HTML code into Reachmail. I downloaded the zip file with images but Reachmail only accept these file extensions: html, shtml, shtm. Is there any way to do this with Bee please?
Hi Lia, you can either upload the HTML that's included in the ZIP file, and then readd the images (if your application does not allow you to import a ZIP file) or you can move to BEE Pro, which allows you to download an HTML file and keep the images hosted with us. See: https://support.beefree.io/hc/en-us/articles/360004496012-Saving-testing-and-exporting-your-emails
Can you add more than one Mailchimp account to a Bee Pro account?
Hi Ryan, you can do so in the Business plan as you can manage ESP connectors at the Brand level (e.g. one Client / Brand may be using one MailChimp account vs. another Client / Brand that is using another MailChimp account).
I am uploading a zip file to MailChimp but the images aren't going through, how can this be corrected? Thank you
Hi Rose: is there a reason why you are not using the free MailChimp connector? It's super easy to use. See: how to use the MailChimp connector: https://emaildesign.beefree.io/2017/12/tutorial-bee-mailchimp-connector/
Hi, great feature.
I understand that due to the responsive you can't edit the images but it would be useful if the beefree editor had an option to sections, texts, and image elements to add custom html attributes. In that way we could add our own editable elements or repeatable content area by our own risk. (By adding
mc:edit or mc:repeatable macros)
Hi Aris! Thanks so much for your feedback. Please know that I'm forwarding this to our Product team for review. We're happy to see what we can do moving forward.
How do I post it as a page??
Hi Meli. After you save a page, you can publish it and share it with social media like LinkedIn or Facebook. Or you can download the HTML and put it on your website. You can find all the information also in this Help Center article. Hope this can help.
I have been using the Bee Pro builder to mailchimp connector but I have had a lot of bugs with padding of buttons and text. It seems its random because if I resend the same template and the issues are gone. I have been making the code fixes in Mailchimp editor in <> but then another section of the template will show a new bug.
Is there a set padding structure that needs to be applied for Mail chimp? how can I remove these random bugs? It is for a client that I have setup that has no html skill set and hates using the mail chimp builder. I have set them up on Beepro but they're not going to be able to deal with bugs all the time.
Hello Mark, I'm sorry for the issues you have encountered. I will post a ticket on your behalf, as we need more details to troubleshoot the case. You can keep track of the ticket thru your email where you will receive our answers.
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