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I'm trying to figure out a way to send new opted-in subscribers to a mailing list with Mailerlite. I have just tried Zapier, but it appears that the only EJunkie 'trigger' is when a sale is made, so presumably that would subscribe anyone who buys my product to the mailing list, rather than just people who opt in.

Is there a way to make a new Zapier trigger for subscriber opt-ins, or is there another way to get my new subscribers over to Mailerlite?

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Hm, I'll have to ask Dev if we do (or could) send any variable to Zapier that indicates the buyer's subscription opt-in preference.

That would be great. It seems like it should be possible. Right now it's possible add all buyers to a mailing list, but obviously that's frowned upon if they haven't opted-in.

Dev says we do report a mailing_list_status=true parameter to Zapier that they can use to determine when the buyer chose to opt-in.

That option doesn't appear to be available. The only one I am seeing is:

New Sale
Triggers when a new sale is processed.

Here's a screenshot2

You would use the New Sale trigger to set up a Zap, and then select the mailing_list_status parameter as the basis for an Action following that trigger. Consult Zapier support or help pages if you need clarification about how to do that.

By having that as a parameter rather than a trigger it makes the Zapier service cost $25/month (as opposed to free). I'm sure there are bigger users for whom this might be worth it, but to add 5 or 10 people to my mailing list, for me, it's way too expensive, and I know many of your users are also smaller businesses. Is it possible the Ejunkie dev team might include new mailing list subscribers as a trigger instead of a parameter?

I'm trying to get out of Mailchimp's grip, but it's really hard when so many other products integrate with them for free, but not with smaller companies.

I've relayed that request to Development to see if they can implement it.