How To Integrate an External Email Marketing Provider

Supercharge your student engagement by integrating your favorite email marketing provider! to your course.

You might already be familiar with our built-in Bulk Emails feature, perfect for sending targeted messages to specific student groups, but using your preferred email marketing service with OnlineCourseHost means:

Targeted messages to the right students
Advanced Segmentation ‍
Detailed Analytics

Our Supported email marketing providers include:

Mailchimp
Mailerlite
Mailerlite Classic
ConvertKit
SendFox

Ready to Take Your Email Marketing to the Next Level? Follow the steps below.

Below are the steps to integrate your email marketing provider and set up notifications on OCH.

Step 1: Set up your email marketing provider

To do this, login to your account => click Admin => by your left-hand side, click Email marketing => scroll down and choose your favorite email marketing provider.

For the benefit of this tutorial, we will be using Mailchimp.

Enter your Mailchimp API key and click Load Email Lists.

After loading your email list, click Activate Integration and continue the process.

Step 2: Activate Email marketing Pop-up

After setting up your email marketing provider, you can also set up an email pop-up by pasting the popup code snippet in the box provided,

To do this, login to your account => click Admin => Email marketing => scroll down to the Email Marketing Pop-up section

Step 3: Download Subscribers

All your students email addresses are automatically saved on your platform when they sign up for your courses, so you can download their emails and use them as subscribers for your email marketing.

To do this, login to your account => click Admin => Email marketing => scroll down to download subscribers and click the Download Emails button.

When you click this button, the emails are downloaded into your computer as a txt file, and you can then upload the file in your email provider.

Using both OnlineCourseHost and your email marketing service will improve your email marketing, leading to more students and sales.