How to Integrate AcyMailing with Shack Forms

AcyMailing is a leading Joomla extension for creating and managing email list from your Joomla site.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a mailing list using AcyMailing/Shack Forms integration.

This integration is a three-step process:

  1. Create your email lists in AcyMailing.
  2. Create a sign-up form for the AcyMailing lists using Shack Forms.
  3. Connect the form with AcyMailing.

Let's take a look at this process in more detail.

  • Visit acyba.com and download AcyMailing Joomla extension:

download acymailing

  • Create a few test lists in AcyMailing. For the purpose of this tutorial, I created three lists, as you can see on the image below: 

my test lists in acymailing

  • Create a sign-up form in Shack Forms. For my tutorial, I created a basic form with just two fields: "Name" and "Email":

my basic sign up form

  • Here is how this sign-up form looks from the frontend:

my basic form from frontend

Excellent! You have your AcyMailing email lists. You also have a sign-up form. Now let's ask our Shack Form to subscribe the form submitters to those email lists.

  • In your Shack Form, go to the "Integrations" tab:

go to integrations tab

  • Locate the "Choose provider" parameter in the "Newsletter" section and set it to "AcyMailing"

set the choose provider to acymailing

  • You will see the "Subscribe to lists" field drop-down with your AcyMailing email lists.

click on required lists

  • Click on "All" to subscribe your visitors to all lists or click on a single list of your choice to subscribe to that particular list or lists. For my tutorial, I added all three of my AcyMailing lists:

all lists selected

  • Set the "Visibility of lists". For my tutorial, I opted for "Visible on front and unchecked".
  • Optionally, set a custom label for the button of your sign-up form.
  • Click "Save" or "Save & Close".

When you test your sign-up form, you will see the new subscribers in the AcyMailing lists.