MailCheap sends it. Commune gets it found.
Connect your MailCheap 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 MailCheap list.
Free. About two minutes. Your list stays in MailCheap.
MailCheap · ContactsHow it works
Keep writing in MailCheap. Commune does the rest.
Step 1
Paste your API key
Create a Full access key on MailCheap's API keys page and paste it in. If your account has more than one newsletter, pick which one to connect.
Step 2
Your archive goes live
Past issues become public, indexable articles with a conversation under each one. From then on, every new issue shows up on Commune by itself after you send it.
Step 3
New readers flow back
When someone subscribes on Commune, they're added to your MailCheap list with source
commune. If you use confirmed opt-in, they get your confirmation email as usual.
Discovery
Get read by people who already read newsletters like yours.
Sending is solved. Getting found isn't. On Commune, your issues sit next to other independent newsletters, and readers move between them through suggestions, the feed and the conversations under each article.
About half of all subscriptions on Commune start on one of those surfaces, not on the newsletter's own page.
The first 10 MailCheap newsletters
Early on MailCheap? I'll help you get noticed.
I'm Fran, the founder. I built this integration the day after MailCheap launched, and I want the first newsletters on it to do well.
- Featured on the Commune homepage, in the row new visitors see first.
- A shout-out on X introducing your newsletter.
- I check your import myself and fix anything that looks off.
Connect, then DM me on X at @fmvilas. Never send me your API key.
Your API key
Exactly what Commune does with it.
MailCheap keys are Full access or Signups only, and a Signups only key can't read your issues. A Full access key can do anything in your account, so here is the whole list of what we use it for.
Commune will
- Read your issues to publish them on Commune
- Read your contacts to bring your readers into your community
- Add people who subscribe on Commune as active, tagged "commune" (they confirmed their email on Commune, so they skip your confirmation email)
- Unsubscribe readers who leave your newsletter on Commune
- Add one Commune address to your list, so new issues reach Commune by themselves
Commune will never
- Send, schedule or edit a campaign
- Delete your contacts (only its own address, when you disconnect)
- Create API keys or open your billing
The key is stored encrypted. Disconnect any time, then revoke the key on MailCheap.
Questions
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Connecting MailCheap to Commune is free, on any MailCheap plan.
- Do I change anything in MailCheap?
- No. You write and send exactly as before. Commune picks up each issue after it goes out.
- What's the Commune address on my list?
- One contact ending in @inbound.usecommune.com. It's how new issues reach Commune without polling your account. It counts as one subscriber on your MailCheap plan, and it's removed when you disconnect.
- Who owns the subscribers I get on Commune?
- You do. They're added to your MailCheap list, and you can export them from MailCheap like any other contact.
- I have more than one newsletter on MailCheap.
- One key can connect each of them. You pick the newsletter when you connect, and each one gets its own page on Commune.
- How fast does a new issue appear?
- Within minutes of MailCheap sending it.
Your next issue could reach someone new.
Free. About two minutes. Nothing changes in how you send.