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MailerLite Classic Make integrationAutomate MailerLite Classic with Make.
Can Make keep your MailerLite Classic lists tidy without manual work? This MailerLite Classic Make integration gives you 26 modules: 2 triggers, 15 actions and 9 searches. This guide shows marketers how to link the account, build a first scenario and pick the right module.
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What does the MailerLite Classic Make integration do?
The MailerLite Classic Make integration links your email marketing account to Make, a visual tool where you chain apps together without code. Each chain is a scenario: the automation you build, made of modules, one brick per step. Your scenario can add subscribers, sort them into groups, read their clicks and opens, and prepare or send campaigns.
Signups that land in the right group. A webinar tool or a form app collects an email. Your scenario passes it to Create/Update a Subscriber, so an existing contact gets refreshed instead of duplicated, then Add Subscriber to a Group files it where your welcome sequence lives.
Engagement data that leaves MailerLite. A sales rep wants to know whether a prospect opened the last newsletter. Search Subscribers By Email finds the contact and List Subscriber Activity By Type returns only the clicks, ready to write into your CRM.
Campaigns built from somewhere else. Your HTML lives in another tool? Create Campaign, Upload Campaign Content and Execute Campaign Action take it from draft to sent, or to scheduled.
One limit to know: the app only talks to version 1 of the MailerLite API, which is the Classic one. If a need falls outside the listed modules, Make an API Call reaches any v1 endpoint with the same account. The same app also has an n8n node, described on the MailerLite Classic n8n integration page, and the n8n vs Make comparison lays out both tools side by side. New to the editor? The Make training starts from zero.
How do you connect MailerLite Classic to Make?
- 01
Generate an API token in MailerLite
Log in to MailerLite, click your account name in the left side panel and open Integrations. In the list, pick Developer API and click Use, then New. Give the token a name you will recognize and click Create token.
- 02
Copy the key somewhere safe
MailerLite now shows the API key. Copy it into a password manager or a private note right away, because Make will ask for it in the next step. This key is what lets Make act on your lists, so keep it out of shared documents.
- 03
Paste it into Make
In Make, add any MailerLite Classic module and click Add next to the Connection field. Name the connection if you like, paste the key into API Key and hit Save. Every other MailerLite Classic module reuses this connection.
Your first scenario: see a subscriber's groups the moment they change
GoalWhen MailerLite Classic reports an event on a subscriber, Make lists every group that person belongs to.
- 01
Create the scenario
Open the Scenarios page in Make, create a new scenario and click the big +. That empty circle becomes your first module, the one that starts everything.
- 02
Add Watch Subscribers
Search for MailerLite Classic, pick Watch Subscribers and select the connection you made earlier. It is an instant trigger: MailerLite calls Make through a webhook the moment something happens to a subscriber.
- 03
Add List Subscriber Groups
Click the + on the right of the trigger and choose List Subscriber Groups. Map the subscriber coming from the trigger. This step only reads, so it never changes your list or fires the trigger again.
- 04
Test with Run once
Click Run once, then trigger a real subscriber event in MailerLite. Open the bubble above each module to read its bundle, the data passed along: one bundle per group the person is in.
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Switch it on
Happy with the test? Turn the scenario on. Because the first module is instant, there is no interval to wait for: each subscriber event reaches Make as it occurs and runs the chain once.
What can start a MailerLite Classic scenario?
2 modules start a scenario when something happens in MailerLite Classic. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by MailerLite Classic as soon as it happens.
Watch Campaigns
Scheduled triggerIn Make“Runs when a new campaign is added to your account.”
This trigger notices each campaign newly added to your MailerLite Classic account and hands it to the rest of your scenario as a bundle, one per campaign. Handy for keeping a record of every campaign your team drafts.
Watch Subscribers
Instant triggerIn Make“Triggers when an event occurs to subscribers.”
Watch Subscribers wakes your scenario whenever an event touches a subscriber in MailerLite Classic. It is the natural entry point for anything that should follow a contact's life in your list.
What can MailerLite Classic do inside Make?
MailerLite Classic gives you 24 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Modules index
- Add Subscriber to a Group
- Create Campaign
- Create Group
- Create/Update a Subscriber
- Execute Campaign Action
- Get Group
- Get Group Subscriber
- Get Subscriber
- Make an API Call
- Remove Campaign
- Remove Group
- Remove Subscriber From Group
- Update Group
- Update Subscriber
- Upload Campaign Content
- List Campaigns
- List Groups
- List Group Subscribers
- List Group Subscribers By Type
- List Segments
- List Subscriber Activity
- List Subscriber Activity By Type
- List Subscriber Groups
- Search Subscribers By Email
Add Subscriber to a Group
ActionIn Make“Adds new single subscriber to specified group.”
Drops one new contact straight into the group you pick, which is where most MailerLite sequences start. The subscriber appears in that group and any automation tied to it can kick in.
Create Campaign
ActionIn Make“Creates campaign where you will use your custom HTML template.”
Opens a fresh campaign in MailerLite Classic designed to receive your own custom HTML template. Think of it as the empty envelope before the letter goes in.
Create Group
ActionIn Make“Creates new group.”
Makes a brand new group in your account, ready to receive subscribers. Groups are how MailerLite Classic splits your audience, so creating them on the fly keeps the structure in step with your business.
Create/Update a Subscriber
ActionIn Make“Creates a new subscriber or updates an existing one.”
Checks whether the contact already exists: if not, it creates it; if so, it refreshes it. One module replaces a search followed by a branch, which keeps a beginner's scenario short.
Execute Campaign Action
ActionIn Make“Sends, schedules or cancels campaign.”
Gives the final order on a campaign: send it now, schedule it, or cancel it. This is the button your team would otherwise click inside MailerLite, now pressed by the scenario.
Get Group
ActionIn Make“Gets single group by ID.”
Fetches the details of a single group when you already know its ID. The result travels on as a bundle, so later modules can reuse the group's information without another lookup.
Get Group Subscriber
ActionIn Make“Gets a single subscriber by ID in specified group.”
Reads one subscriber inside one specific group, using the subscriber's ID. It answers a narrow question: what does this person look like from the point of view of this list?
Get Subscriber
ActionIn Make“Gets single subscriber by ID or Email.”
Pulls one subscriber's record from the whole account, found either by ID or by email address. Email is usually what other apps send you, which makes this the friendliest lookup of the set.
Make an API Call
ActionIn Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”
Sends your own authorized request to the MailerLite API, reusing the connection you already set up. It covers whatever the listed modules leave aside, without a second login.
Remove Campaign
ActionIn Make“Removes a campaign.”
Deletes a campaign from your account. Useful for tidying the drafts a scenario may generate while you experiment, or for cleaning up after a cancelled project.
Remove Group
ActionIn Make“Removes group by ID.”
Erases a whole group, found by its ID. Your list structure gets lighter when a segment has served its purpose, such as the attendees of a past event.
Remove Subscriber From Group
ActionIn Make“Removes single subscriber from specified group.”
Takes one subscriber out of one group while leaving the contact in your account. It moves people between stages of a journey without losing their history.
Update Group
ActionIn Make“Updates existing group.”
Edits an existing group so its details match what changed elsewhere. The subscribers inside stay exactly where they are.
Update Subscriber
ActionIn Make“Updates single subscriber by ID or Email.”
Changes the record of a subscriber you already know, found by ID or email. Unlike Create/Update a Subscriber, it never creates a new contact.
Upload Campaign Content
ActionIn Make“Uploads your HTML template to created campaign.”
Pours your HTML template into a campaign that already exists. Paired with Create Campaign, it lets a newsletter go from your editor to MailerLite without a copy and paste in between.
List Campaigns
SearchIn Make“Lists all campaigns by status.”
Returns your campaigns filtered by status, each one as a separate bundle. As a search, it can send back zero, one or many results.
List Groups
SearchIn Make“Lists all groups for this account.”
Brings back every group in the account, one bundle per group. It is the quickest way to discover the IDs that the Get, Update and Remove modules ask for.
List Group Subscribers
SearchIn Make“Lists all subscribers in a specified group.”
Outputs all the subscribers of one chosen group. Each person becomes a bundle, which suits exports and bulk syncing toward another tool.
List Group Subscribers By Type
SearchIn Make“Lists all subscribers in a specified group by type.”
Same idea as List Group Subscribers, with one extra filter: only the subscribers of the type you choose come back. Fewer bundles, fewer operations spent on people you would skip anyway.
List Segments
SearchIn Make“Lists all stored segments for this account.”
Lists the segments saved in your account. Segments are stored audience definitions, a different thing from groups, and this search lets a scenario see them.
List Subscriber Activity
SearchIn Make“Lists activity (clicks, opens, etc) of selected subscriber.”
Shows what one subscriber did with your emails, clicks and opens included. Each activity comes out as a bundle you can count, filter or send elsewhere.
List Subscriber Activity By Type
SearchIn Make“Lists activity of selected subscriber by specified type (opens, clicks, etc).”
Narrows a subscriber's history to a single kind of activity, opens or clicks for example. The answer is shorter and straight to the point.
List Subscriber Groups
SearchIn Make“Lists groups subscriber belongs to.”
Tells you every group a given subscriber belongs to. It answers the reverse question of List Group Subscribers: not who is in this list, but which lists hold this person.
Search Subscribers By Email
SearchIn Make“Searches for subscribers by email.”
Looks up subscribers from an email address and returns what it finds, possibly nothing. It works well as a gate before deciding what the scenario should do next.
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