Commune + MailerLite
MailerLite sends it. Commune gets it found.
Connect your MailerLite newsletter and every issue gets a public page, a conversation, and a spot in front of people who read newsletters like yours. Anyone who subscribes on Commune lands straight in your MailerLite list.
Free. About two minutes. Your list stays in MailerLite.
How it works
Keep writing in MailerLite. Commune does the rest.
Step 1
Paste your API key
Create an API key in MailerLite and paste it in. Pick a group if you like: Commune then reads that group and adds new readers to it.
Step 2
Your archive goes live
Pick the past campaigns to bring over. Each one becomes a public page with a conversation under it. From then on, every public campaign you send shows up on Commune by itself.
Step 3
New readers flow back
When someone subscribes on Commune, they're added to your MailerLite list as active, in your group if you picked one, with fields that say they came from Commune.
Between MailerLite and Commune
What comes in, and what goes back.
From MailerLite
- The past campaigns you pick, with their formatting when they have a web version
- Every new public campaign sent to your group or to everyone, through one address Commune adds to your list
- Your active subscribers' email addresses, once a day, so readers already on Commune are subscribed to you there too
Back to MailerLite
- Readers who subscribe on Commune, as active MailerLite subscribers
- Two fields on them, is_on_commune and acquired_via_commune
- Four engagement fields for readers who use Commune: a score, a trend, a status and their last action
- A deleted subscriber, when a reader leaves your newsletter on Commune
Discovery
Get read by people who already read newsletters like yours.
Sending is solved. Getting found isn't. On Commune, your MailerLite issues sit next to other independent newsletters, and readers move between them through the feed and the conversations under each post.
Step 1
A reader comes to Commune for another newsletter.
Step 2
Your latest post is right there in the same feed.
Step 3
One click, and they're your subscriber.
Every newsletter here sends readers to the others, yours included. The more it grows, the more it sends.
Your API key
Exactly what Commune does with it.
Here is the whole list of what Commune uses your MailerLite key for.
Commune will
- Read your sent campaigns to publish them on Commune
- Read your groups and active subscribers to bring your readers into your community
- Add people who subscribe on Commune, and create the fields that mark them
- Delete a subscriber who unsubscribes on Commune, and its own address when you disconnect
- Add one Commune address to your list, in a group called Commune System (Do Not Delete)
Commune will never
- Send, schedule or edit a campaign
- Change your account or its billing
Disconnect any time from your Commune dashboard, then delete the key in MailerLite if you like.
When you're ready
Or move your sending to Commune.
Questions
The short answers
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Connecting MailerLite to Commune is free. Sending from Commune instead is the Creator plan.
- Do I change anything in MailerLite?
- No. You write and send exactly as before. Commune adds one address of its own to your list, in a group called Commune System (Do Not Delete), so new campaigns reach it, and deletes the address when you disconnect.
- Which campaigns come in?
- When you connect, you pick which past campaigns to import, with the public ones selected for you. After that, every new campaign with a public web version comes in by itself if it went to your group or to everyone.
- What happens when a reader unsubscribes on Commune?
- Commune deletes them from your MailerLite account.
- What happens if I disconnect?
- Your posts and their conversations stay on Commune. Readers Commune added to MailerLite stay on your list there.
Connect MailerLite in about two minutes.
Free, and nothing changes in how you write or send. Every issue gets a conversation and a place in the network.