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AcyMailing Zapier integrationAutomate AcyMailing with Zapier.

The AcyMailing Zapier integration gives you 4 triggers and 5 actions. Zapier watches your WordPress or Joomla lists for new, confirmed and departing users, then subscribes, emails or removes people for you. Here is each operation, and its cost.

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Overview

What the AcyMailing Zapier integration actually does

AcyMailing runs your newsletters from inside a WordPress or Joomla site. Zapier connects it to other tools through a Zap: an automation that starts on an event (the trigger) and then does things for you (the actions). Here, the events are people joining, confirming or leaving your lists, and the actions manage those same people.

A welcome that waits for real consent. New Confirmed User only fires once someone has clicked the double opt-in link. Pair it with Subscribe User and Email a Single User, and a membership site only enrolls people who actually confirmed.

Lists that stay consistent. User Unsubscribed from Lists spots a departure; Unsubscribe User then takes the person off related lists, so a reader who left your promotions does not keep getting your flash sales.

Contacts fed from outside the site. Add or Update a User brings people in from your CRM or your shop, and Delete a User removes them when a request comes in. New User Created and User Subscribed to Lists work the other way, pushing fresh signups out to your other tools.

What Zapier does not do here: none of the four triggers is instant, so a free plan only checks every 15 minutes. It cannot build a campaign or design an email either: Email a Single User sends an email that already exists in AcyMailing. And it never looks back at users who were there before your Zap went live.

Comparing tools for this? The AcyMailing Make integration page is the companion of this one, and Make vs Zapier is there if you are still choosing between the two.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary in one minute

Seven words that come back on every line, in plain English.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time that trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts a Zap, such as a user confirming their AcyMailing subscription. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
What the Zap does once started: the step that writes, sends or removes something for you in an app.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action that completes successfully. Your plan allowance is simply a count of those.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked on a timer set by your plan. An instant trigger is pushed by the app the moment the event happens. AcyMailing only polls.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets your condition, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that looks up something already stored in an app for later steps. AcyMailing offers none on Zapier.
Cost

What an AcyMailing Zap really costs

Zapier checking your lists is free. What your Zap does with each user is not.

  • Trigger and each checkFree, never counted
  • Each successful action1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only
  • AcyMailing on the free planYes, not a premium app

The trigger costs nothing, and neither does each check for new users, however often it happens. Each action that succeeds counts as one task, separately: subscribe a user then email them, and that is two tasks per person. An action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, but only two-step Zaps: one trigger, one action. A second action or a filter makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. AcyMailing is not a premium app, so it works on the free plan. Its triggers are all polling ones, so the grid below sets how quickly your Zap notices a new user.

Connect

Connect AcyMailing to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In Zapier, go to Apps and click + Add connection. A connection is your AcyMailing account linked once, then reused by every Zap that reads or changes your lists.

  2. 02

    Pick AcyMailing

    Search for AcyMailing in the dialog, select it, then click Add connection. You need an AcyMailing account of your own before the connection can go through.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    A new tab opens. Sign in to AcyMailing, then allow Zapier to work with the account. If the lists you want to automate are managed by someone else, check that your login can read and edit them.

First Zap

Your first Zap: welcome only confirmed members

GoalWhen a user confirms their subscription, add them to your members list and send them the welcome email you already prepared in AcyMailing.

  1. 01

    Build: choose the trigger

    Create a Zap, pick AcyMailing and New Confirmed User, then select your connection. This trigger only reacts once the double opt-in link has been clicked.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent confirmed users, so you map the next steps on a real person instead of an empty template.

  3. 03

    Subscribe to the members list

    Add Subscribe User, map the user's email and type the ID of your members list. Turn Send Welcome Email off, since the next step does the welcoming.

  4. 04

    Send the welcome email

    Add Email a Single User with the same email and the Email ID of your welcome message. Two actions make this a multi-step Zap, so it needs a paid plan.

  5. 05

    Test, then Publish

    Test each action and read what came back. Then click Publish. Each confirmed user now uses two tasks, and Zapier picks them up at your plan's interval.

Triggers

AcyMailing triggers on Zapier

4 events start a Zap when something happens in AcyMailing. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.

1

New Confirmed User

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a user confirms their email address (clicked on the confirmation link - double opt-in).”

Starts your Zap when a user confirms their email address by clicking the double opt-in link. Until that click, nothing happens, which makes it the only one of the four triggers tied to the double opt-in.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one
When to use it
a paid newsletter only grants access to its archive once the reader has confirmed, so only people who clicked the link get in.
Watch out
people who confirmed before the Zap was published are not picked up; it only sees confirmations that come after.
2

User Subscribed to Lists

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a user subscribes to one or more specified list(s).”

Fires when a user joins one or more lists you name. It follows list membership, not account creation, so an existing user who joins a new list counts too.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one
When to use it
a webinar host sends each new member of the event list a calendar reminder from another tool.
Watch out
the list IDs are required, as one number or several separated by commas; the trigger ignores every list you leave out.
3

User Unsubscribed from Lists

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a user unsubscribes from the specified lists.”

Reacts when a user leaves the lists you specify. It is the signal to update everything that still treats them as a subscriber elsewhere.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one
When to use it
a training company stops sales follow-ups in its CRM for anyone who leaves the course announcements list.
Watch out
list IDs are required here too, and a departure from a list you did not name never reaches the Zap.
4

New User Created

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new user is created.”

Runs for every user added to your AcyMailing database, confirmed or not, whatever list they end up on. It is the broadest of the four triggers.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one
When to use it
log every new contact in the spreadsheet your sales team works from, so nobody signs up unnoticed.
Watch out
pairing it with Add or Update a User in the same Zap can create users that set the Zap off again.
Actions

AcyMailing actions on Zapier

AcyMailing gives you 5 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Add or Update a User

Action

In Zapier“Creates a new user or updates an existing user.”

Creates a user in AcyMailing, or updates one that already exists. It is how contacts from your shop or CRM reach your lists.

When to use it
every buyer from your online store becomes an AcyMailing user without an export.
Watch out
by default, saving the user starts your follow-up campaigns and automations, and a new user gets the confirmation email; turn those options off if that is not wanted.
2

Delete a User

Action

In Zapier“Deletes a user from your AcyMailing database.”

Removes a user from your AcyMailing database, identified by their email address alone.

When to use it
a deletion request logged in your support desk should also clear the person from your mailing tool.
Watch out
wire it to an explicit request only, never to a guess such as a bounced email or a quiet subscriber.
3

Email a Single User

Action

In Zapier“Send an email to a single AcyMailing user.”

Sends one email you already built in AcyMailing to one user, picked by email address and Email ID.

When to use it
a customer finishes onboarding in your app and should get the guide you wrote for that stage.
Watch out
the recipient must exist unless you set AutoAddUser to true; Track email adds the send to your statistics.
4

Subscribe User

Action

In Zapier“Subscribes a user to the specified list(s).”

Adds a user, by email, to one or more lists named by their IDs.

When to use it
someone books a workshop elsewhere and should land on the workshop list for the practical details.
Watch out
the welcome email only goes out if the option is on and the user is both activated and confirmed in AcyMailing.
5

Unsubscribe User

Action

In Zapier“Unsubscribes a user from the specified list(s).”

Takes a user off the lists whose IDs you give, which is narrower than deleting them.

When to use it
a client cancels their subscription in your billing tool and should stop receiving the customers-only newsletter.
Watch out
if a list has an unsubscribe email configured, the user receives it unless you switch that option off in the step.
When it breaks

When an AcyMailing Zap breaks

Zapier attaches no help article to AcyMailing, so the cases below come from Zapier's general rules and from the fields of the app itself.

Two of them come from the default settings of the app's own fields; the others are general to Zapier, as they play out with AcyMailing. If you would rather hand the diagnosis to someone, see our Zapier troubleshooting page.

  • The list IDs are typed wrong

    Triggers and actions expect list IDs as numbers, one or several separated by commas. Type the numeric IDs from AcyMailing, never the list names you see in your campaigns.

  • The Zap keeps creating itself work

    New User Created plus Add or Update a User in the same Zap can create users that start the Zap again, burning through your tasks fast.

  • Saving a user sends emails you did not plan

    Add or Update a User starts automations and sends the confirmation email by default. Switch those options off when you only want to sync data.

  • Your existing users never show up

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Users already in AcyMailing are not replayed; moving them is a separate job.

  • A bulk import holds the Zap back

    When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after an import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the runs instead of firing them all.

  • A user does not start the Zap twice

    On a polling trigger, Zapier remembers who it has already picked up, so the same item never starts the Zap a second time.
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FAQ

AcyMailing Zapier integration: common questions

01Is the AcyMailing Zapier integration free?
On the Zapier side, yes. AcyMailing is not a premium app, so it works on the free Zapier plan, which includes 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps. The limit is the shape of the Zap: on the free plan, a Zap has two steps, one trigger and one action. Subscribing a confirmed user and then sending them a welcome email takes two actions, which makes the Zap multi-step and requires a paid plan. Start with one action, check it, and add the rest later.
02How many tasks does an AcyMailing Zap use?
One task per action that succeeds, every time the Zap runs. The trigger is free, and so is each check Zapier makes on your lists, however often it happens. A Zap that subscribes a confirmed user to a list and then emails them uses two tasks per person. An action that fails is not counted. A few apps and actions take more than one task when they complete, so keep that in mind for the other apps in your Zap.
03Does AcyMailing trigger Zaps in real time?
No. All four AcyMailing triggers are polling ones: Zapier goes and checks your lists at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan. That is every 15 minutes on Free, every 2 minutes on Professional, and every minute on Team and Enterprise. On the paid plans you can also change how often a trigger checks, and run a check by hand from the editor when you are testing and do not want to wait.
04What does it take to connect AcyMailing to Zapier?
An AcyMailing account and a Zapier account. In Zapier, open Apps, click + Add connection, search for AcyMailing, click Add connection, then sign in to AcyMailing in the tab that opens and grant access. Before building, write down the IDs of the lists you will use and the ID of any email you plan to send, since several steps require them. The connection is made once and reused by every Zap.
05Why did Subscribe User not send the welcome email?
Because the welcome email has two conditions. The Send Welcome Email option has to be on in the step, and the user has to be both activated and confirmed in your AcyMailing database. A user who has not clicked the double opt-in link yet gets subscribed to the list, but no welcome email goes out. Starting the Zap with New Confirmed User solves this, since that trigger only fires once the confirmation is done.
06What if the AcyMailing action you want is not in Zapier?
Then it is not available through this integration today. Zapier offers five AcyMailing actions, all about users: add or update, subscribe, unsubscribe, email one user, delete. There is no step to create a list, build a campaign or design an email, and no search step. The usual way around it is to prepare those in AcyMailing once, then use Zapier to move users in and out, and to send the emails you already built by their ID.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for AcyMailing?
It depends on your criteria rather than on a winner. On Zapier the facts are known: four polling triggers checked every 15 minutes on the free plan, five actions, and every successful action counts as one task. For Make and n8n, check the same points on their side: which AcyMailing operations they offer, how quickly they notice new users, and how they bill each run. Then keep the platform whose operations cover your lists.
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