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Maileon Make integrationAutomate Maileon with Make.

Can Make react the moment a Maileon contact bounces, confirms or leaves? Yes. The Maileon Make integration gives you 6 modules: 3 instant triggers and 3 actions. This guide shows marketing and ops teams how to connect the account and build a first scenario.

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What you can automate

What can the Maileon Make integration do for you?

The Maileon Make integration links your Maileon account to Make, a no-code tool where you build a scenario (the automation itself) out of modules (its building blocks). Maileon can alert Make as soon as a bounce, a double opt-in confirmation or an unsubscription happens, and Make can create contacts, send transactions or unsubscribe people in return.

Keep every tool in step with unsubscriptions. Watch Unsubscriptions fires when someone is unsubscribed in Maileon. Make then passes that contact to your CRM or a shared sheet, so sales stops chasing people who already said no.

Feed Maileon from wherever leads arrive. A form tool, an online shop or a spreadsheet can open the scenario, and Create a Contact adds the person to Maileon. Nobody retypes addresses by hand any more.

Clean up after failed deliveries. Watch Bounces reports each bounce, an email that could not be delivered. You can log it, flag the contact in another tool, or run Unsubscribe a Contact when your own rules say the address is dead.

Know the limits before you start. This app has no search module and no Make an API Call module, so nothing in it looks a contact up before acting. Make's Maileon documentation also says it is AI-generated, so check important details with Maileon. Stuck on an error? The Make troubleshooting guide walks through the usual causes.

Weighing Make against n8n for your email setup? The n8n vs Make comparison puts the two side by side, and the Make training is there if you want to build scenarios yourself.

Connect

How do you connect Maileon to Make?

  1. 01

    Create an API key in Maileon

    Make talks to Maileon through an API key, a private code that proves the requests come from your account. In Maileon, open the API-Keys section of your account settings, create a key, give it an internal label, set it to active and select the permissions it needs.

  2. 02

    Add a Maileon module and start the connection

    In your scenario, add any Maileon module and click Create a connection. A connection is your Maileon account linked to Make once, then reused by every Maileon module. The Connection name field is optional, but a clear name helps when you run several accounts.

  3. 03

    Paste the key and save

    Back in Maileon, click the magnifying glass icon next to your new key and copy what appears. Paste it into Make and save. Once the connection exists, Make can list what it reads from Maileon while you fill in a module.

First scenario

Your first scenario: honor opt-outs made outside Maileon

GoalWhen someone asks to stop receiving emails in another tool, Make unsubscribes that contact in Maileon.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    Open the Scenarios page in Make, create a new scenario and click the +. Pick as first module the app where opt-out requests show up: your support desk, your CRM or a form tool.

  2. 02

    Add Unsubscribe a Contact

    Click the + on the right of that first module, search for Maileon and choose Unsubscribe a Contact. Click Create a connection and paste your API key if you have not linked Maileon yet.

  3. 03

    Map the contact

    Fill the Maileon module with the data coming from the first module, so it knows which person to unsubscribe. No need to guess, Make lists what the previous module returned.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once to execute the scenario one time on a test contact. Each module shows the bundles it received, a bundle being one item passed along, here one person. Check the result in Maileon.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch on

    If your first module is a scheduled trigger, set its clock (every 15 minutes by default), then switch the scenario on. Every module run on a bundle counts as one operation on your Make plan.

Triggers

What can start a Maileon scenario?

3 modules start a scenario when something happens in Maileon. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by Maileon as soon as it happens.

Maileon1Watch Bounces

Watch Bounces

Instant trigger

In Make“Triggers when a bounce occurs in Maileon.”

Watch Bounces tells Make each time an email sent from Maileon bounces, meaning it could not be delivered to the address. You get the bounce as a bundle that later modules can log, flag or act on.

How it fires
instant. Maileon calls Make through a webhook as soon as the bounce happens.
When to use it
when your CRM or a shared sheet should show which addresses are failing, without anyone exporting reports from Maileon.
Watch out
every bounce starts its own run, and each module it passes through costs an operation, so a send with many bad addresses eats more of your plan.
Maileon2Watch Double Opt-in Confirmations

Watch Double Opt-in Confirmations

Instant trigger

In Make“Triggers when a Double-Optin confirmation occurs in Maileon.”

With this trigger, a subscriber who confirms their double opt-in in Maileon (the second step that proves they really asked to join) starts your scenario. That confirmed contact is exactly the moment to welcome them in your other tools too.

How it fires
instant. Maileon alerts Make through a webhook the moment the confirmation happens.
When to use it
when a confirmed signup should also reach your CRM or a sales spreadsheet, and only confirmed people should get there.
Watch out
it sees confirmations, not raw signups. Someone who never confirms never reaches your scenario.
Maileon3Watch Unsubscriptions

Watch Unsubscriptions

Instant trigger

In Make“Triggers when a contact is unsubscribed in Maileon.”

Your other tools learn that a person left, because Watch Unsubscriptions reacts whenever a contact is unsubscribed in Maileon. The contact arrives in Make as a bundle, ready to be passed to a CRM, a support desk or a sheet.

How it fires
instant. Maileon calls Make through a webhook as soon as the unsubscription happens.
When to use it
when sales or support should stop treating that person as a subscriber, without waiting for someone to compare lists by hand.
Watch out
add it with Create a webhook before Create a connection, the order the Maileon doc gives for instant modules.
Modules

What can Make do in Maileon?

Maileon gives you 3 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Maileon1

Create a Contact

Action

In Make“Creates a new contact in Maileon.”

Create a Contact adds a new person to Maileon from data another app hands over, so your list grows without manual entry.

When to use it
after a form submission, a purchase or a new CRM record, when that person should start hearing from you in Maileon.
Watch out
this module only creates. There is no search module for Maileon in Make, so the scenario cannot check first whether the contact already exists.
Maileon2

Send a Transaction

Action

In Make“Sends a Transaction to Maileon.”

Send a Transaction pushes a transaction from your scenario into Maileon, so something that happened in another tool reaches your Maileon account.

When to use it
when an event outside Maileon, such as an order in your shop, needs to be known on the Maileon side.
Watch out
Make's doc does not describe what a transaction should contain and flags itself as AI-generated, so check the setup in Maileon before mapping data.
Maileon3

Unsubscribe a Contact

Action

In Make“Unsubscribes a contact in Maileon.”

Unsubscribe a Contact takes a person off your Maileon mailings on instruction from another tool, so a no given in one place is respected everywhere.

When to use it
when someone opts out through your support desk, your CRM or a form that lives outside Maileon.
Watch out
Make offers no module to resubscribe a Maileon contact, so run it only when the person really asked to leave.
Need help

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FAQ

Maileon and Make: common questions

01Is the Maileon Make integration free?
Yes, on the Make side. Maileon is a standard app, available from the Free plan. That plan allows 2 active scenarios, scheduled runs at least 15 minutes apart, 5 minutes per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans (Core, Pro, Teams and Enterprise) remove the cap on active scenarios and lower the minimum interval to 1 minute. You still need an active Maileon account with an API key, and Maileon has its own subscription, listed on its pricing page.
02What do you need to connect Maileon to Make?
An active Maileon account, an API key and a Make account. You create the key in the API-Keys section of your Maileon account settings: give it an internal label, set it to active, add an expiration date if you want one and select the permissions it needs. Copy it with the magnifying glass icon next to the key. In Make, add a Maileon module, click Create a connection and paste the key. For the three instant triggers, click Create a webhook first.
03Do the Maileon triggers in Make fire in real time?
Yes. All three are instant: Watch Bounces, Watch Double Opt-in Confirmations and Watch Unsubscriptions. Maileon calls Make through a webhook as soon as the event happens, so your scenario does not wait for a schedule. The schedule on the first module, every 15 minutes by default on a new scenario, only matters for scheduled triggers. The flip side: each event starts its own run, and every module that handles it counts as an operation on your plan.
04What if a Maileon module is missing in Make?
Then that part of the job has to happen elsewhere. Maileon offers six modules in Make, three triggers and three actions, and no Make an API Call module, so this app cannot send a custom request to Maileon. There is no search module either. Your options are to handle that step with another app in the same scenario, or to ask the team to look at your case. Make's Maileon doc is marked as AI-generated, so confirm anything critical with Maileon directly.
05Make or n8n for Maileon?
It depends on the rest of your setup, not on Maileon alone. On Make, you get six modules: instant triggers for bounces, double opt-in confirmations and unsubscriptions, plus actions to create contacts, send transactions and unsubscribe people. The same app often has an n8n node as well, so check what that side offers before you choose. Compare the modules each tool gives you for Maileon, then look at where your other scenarios already run. The comparison linked earlier on this page sets both tools side by side.
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