New Shopify customers → Mailchimp
Customers who accept marketing are added to your Mailchimp audience automatically.
How it works
Trigger: Shopify — customer created
- Receive the new customer from Shopify.
- Continue only if they accepted email marketing.
- Add them to your Mailchimp audience with their first name.
Diagram
Trigger App Logic
Build it
Pick your tool — same automation, step by step.
Copy and paste straight into an n8n canvas (Ctrl+V), or download and use Import from File. Then connect your own credentials and replace every YOUR_… placeholder.
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"value": "={{ $json.first_name }}"
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}In Make, create a new scenario and add these modules in order:
- Shopify › Watch Customers
- Filter on the next route: “Accepted marketing?”
- If yesMailchimp › Add/Update a Subscriber
- Every module run uses Make operations — the free plan includes a monthly quota.
- Module and step names can differ slightly as Make and Zapier update their apps.
In Zapier, create a new Zap and add these steps in order:
- Shopify — New Customer
- Filter by Zapier: “Accepted marketing?”
- If yesMailchimp — Add/Update Subscriber
- Zaps with more than two steps need a paid Zapier plan.
- Webhooks, Filters/Paths and Code by Zapier are premium features on some Zapier plans.
- Module and step names can differ slightly as Make and Zapier update their apps.
Tips
- Only add people who opted in — it's the law in many countries (GDPR, CAN-SPAM).
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