We’re excited to announce that MailChimp now integrates with Freshbooks, to make staying in touch with all your customers painless. Basically, we’ve made it super easy to import your customers from your Freshbooks account into MailChimp. Then, you can send them email newsletters, event invitations, and autoresponders.
We’ll clean unsubscribes and bounces on MailChimp, and we’ll give you awesome reports to track your performance.
Freshbooks takes care of your billing, and MailChimp takes care of email marketing. Throw in a little Batchbook CRM, and you’ve got some kind of crazy-powerful “small business web” or something.
Here’s how it works…
Whenever you create a list in MailChimp, the final step asks you where you want to import your list from.
Select the Freshbooks option.
Next, MailChimp will ask you to give us your Freshbooks account API key. Here’s where you can find that in Freshbooks:
Once you plug that key into MailChimp, we’ll import your customer list. Now you’re ready to send email newsletters to all your customers!
We told you it was painless.


Any chance you’d consider integrating Blinksale with MC?
Can you export a list to fresbooks.
Brenda – Hmm, that’s a first. The assumption was always that you’d manage your customers in Freshbooks, and if you wanted to send them a newsletter, seamlessly import the list to MailChimp. Nobody’s ever requested going the *other* way. I looked into it, and you can export your MailChimp list to a comma separated file (CSV) for Freshbooks. After exporting from MailChimp, you’ll want to make sure to re-arrange your columns to match the special “Freshbooks formatted CSV.”
Hi there,
Being a Freshbooks user this certainly interests us. A couple of questions:
1. I assume from the API integration that any new clients added in Freshbooks automatically appear in MailChimp. Is that correct?
2. Is it possible to take these automatically imported users and assign them to groups. In our case we’d want at least 3 groups. A hosting clients group, a domain clients group, and an all clients group. We’d need to be able to assign clients to multiple groups.
Obviously the second question is more about MailChimp’s abilities but it would be very relevant to us.
Cheers,
Alex
I actually completely forgot I’d asked this and was sent the link to this page by my business partner and was about to ask the same questions only to see I asked them last year.
Any chance you could offer clarification on the above, or do I need to explain my query better?
Cheers,
Alex
I have the same question as Alex