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.

Graith Internet gives us an osCommerce plugin that adds a “subscribe me to your newsletter” checkbox to your ecommerce checkout process. Their first name and email are then added to your MailChimp list. Great for e-retailers to grow your list and send offers! Be sure to also check out our Google Analytics integration and new email campaign ROI tracking tools.

GenerationSix posted a Joomla! extension for MailChimp. I’m really happy about this one, because whenever I mention MailChimp’s API and our plugins page, all I ever hear in response is, “Any Joomla plugins?” and “Got any Joomla plugins?” and “Haven’t you guys ever heard of Joomla?” and “Why aren’t there any Joomla plugins?” Now when people ask me if we have Joomla plugins, I can finally say, “YES!” (but then people ask me why I say “yes” so loudly).

Plugins are an easy way to just plug MailChimp functionality into just about any product. Developers have created plugins for Drupal, Foxy Cart, Movable Type, WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Zen Cart, and TypePad.