Dialect, a small web marketing company on Vancouver Island in Canada, has developed a plugin that connects your Shopify online store with MailChimp.

It works by allowing you to process a Webhook from Shopify and subscribe the purchaser to a specific MailChimp list. In a nutshell, Webhooks enable you to collect information about events as they happen in near real-time. (read more about the MailChimp API and Webhooks here)

You can grab the plugin and installation instructions here. Then, all you need to get started is your Shopify Shop ID and MailChimp List ID.

Use another ecommerce or shopping cart solution? MailChimp also currently intergrates with Magento, osCommerce, PrestaShop, Foxy Cart and ZenCart. Be sure to take a look at our extensive list of plugins for more info.

Foxycart has a MailChimp plugin now, so that you can add email marketing functionality to your e-commerce checkout process.

I really wish Foxycart was around back when we were a web design shop.  Seriously, there were sooooo many projects we did for clients that went perfectly fine—until it was time to hook up an e-commerce system (that’s about when project profitability usually started to plummet).

Foxycart has simplified the entire “e-commerce cart” concept, by turning it into a one-page thing that’s totally customizable.

If you’re a web designer who builds e-commerce sites for clients, you should definitely look into these guys, because:

• Foxycart is by web developers, for web developers.
• It’s completely customizable with CSS and HTML.
• They’ve got advanced integration options with JSON and XML.
• It’s built to integrate.
• It’s not a CMS, so it’s easy to implement and you don’t have to learn a
  whole new system just to get a site up.

If you’re a programmer, and you’re interested in plugging MailChimp into your application (CMS, CRM, etc) take a look at the MailChimp API, or check out our growing list of plugins.