How to Connect WPForms and Sendinblue in WordPress

Last Updated on July 16, 2021 by Roshan Parihar

Do you want to connect WPForms and Sendinblue on your WordPress website?

You can collect leads directly from your WordPress website to your Sendinblue account using WPForms. This is the automated process that automatically sends form entries to the Sendinblue email list.

If you are using Sendinblue for email marketing, you can easily grow your email leads by connecting your form leads with Sendinblue. It gives you more conversions and more quality leads for email marketing.

In this post, you will learn how to connect WPForms and Sendinblue with the step-by-step guide given below.

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To connect your WordPress website form leads with Sendinblue, I recommend you to use WPForms best form builder plugin. It is the best option and the highest 5 stars rated plugin in the WordPress repository.

You can install and activate the WPForms plugin to start using its features to collect leads to your Sendinblue email list. It requires a ‘Plus’ or higher license of WPForms plugin to start connecting WordPress website leads and Sendinblue.

So, let’s get started.

Step 1: Sign up with WPForms to Create An Account

First of all, you have to open the WPForms homepage to create an account. You can also use the button given below that takes you to the WPForms homepage.

➜ Click Here to Go to WPForms Homepage

On the homepage, you have to click on the ‘Get WPForms’ button given at the top right corner of the homepage to open the pricing page.

On this pricing page of WPForms, you can choose the ‘Plus’ plan or higher plan to get the ‘Sendinblue’ addon. However, I recommend you to choose the ‘Pro’ plan that gives the ‘Sendinblue’ addon and other essential features in one single pack.

To select the plan, you have to click the ‘GET STARTED’ button given under your chosen plan.

All plans of WPForms comes with a satisfaction guarantee to buy any of its plan with confidence. The founder of the plugin guaranteed a 100% no-risk money-back guarantee with no questions asked. If you experience any problem with the plugin or found WPForms is not the best option for your business, they will happily refund all your money back.

After you have your preferred plan above, you will get a checkout page where you have to fill in your account information details and payment information requires to make payment.

When you have done with the payment, you will get an email on your email id that you have provided in the account information above. Log in to your email account to click the verification link on your email id required to complete creating your WPForms account.

Step 2: Install WPForms Plugin and Enter Activation Key

After you have created an account with WPForms, log in to your WordPress website dashboard to visit the menu option Plugins >> Add New.

You will get a page where you have to search for the ‘WPForms’ plugin as showing in the image below. After you get the plugin, click on the ‘Install’ button given under the plugin to install and activate it on your WordPress website.

After that, go to your WordPress website dashboard menu option WPForms >> Settings. Here, you need to enter the license key of your WPForms account that you have received after created an account with WPForms above.

After entering the license key, click the ‘Connect’ button to connect with your WPForms account.

Now, let’s install the Sendinblue addon on your WordPress website.

Step 3 Install Sendinblue Addon

To connect WPForms and Sendinblue, you have to install the Sendinblue addon of the WPForms plugin. After connecting an account above, click the ‘Integrations’ tab to get the list of addons of WPForms.

Find the ‘Sendinblue’ addon and click on it to start installing on your website.

You will get a popup that shows you don’t have the Sendinblue addon installed on your website. Click the ‘YES, INSTALL AND ACTIVATE’ button to install the add-on on your WordPress website.

After installation, you will get a message showing the addon activated and installed on your website. Click the ‘REFRESH PAGE’ button to refresh the page.

When you have done with the installation of the addon, you need to connect a Sendinblue account to collect emails from your website to it. Click on the ‘Add New Account’ button as indicated below to get the connection form. The form contains the field to enter the API key of your Sendinblue account.

To get the API key from your Sendinblue account, login to your Sendinblue account and click the menu option ‘SMTP & API’ as indicated below.

You will get a page that displays the API key of your Sendinblue account. Click on the API key to copy it.

Again, go to your WordPress website and enter the API key to the form as showing below. The nickname is the optional field in the form that is useful to name your connection on the WPForms plugin.

After entering the API key, click the ‘Connect to Sendinblue’ button to connect the account.

The below image shows that the Sendinblue account is successfully connected using the WPForms plugin on your WordPress website.

Now, let’s start creating a lead generation form to collect leads to the Sendblue email list using this form on your website.

Step 4 Create Lead Generation Form For Your Website

To create a lead generation form on your website, visit the WordPress dashboard menu option WPForms >> Add New.

A page will open where you have to enter the name for the lead generation form to easily identify it from other forms.

The WPForms plugin comes with many pre-made templates that are useful to create forms with just a single click. You have to select the ‘Create a Newsletter Signup Form’ template to get the pre-made template for the lead generation form that contains pre-defined form fields.

You will get a page that displays the appearance of the newsletter form template with pre-defined form fields. There are two input fields for the ‘Name’ to enter in the form. However, you can make it simple by converting it to a single input box for the name field.

To make the ‘name’ input field single, click the input box as indicated below to get the field options for ‘Name’. You have to select the ‘Simple’ option given in the ‘Format’ dropdown to convert it to a single input field.

The ‘Name’ field now converted to a single input box to display to the users. You can leave the ‘Email’ input box and the button as it is and proceed further to configure the form.

Step 5 Configure Signup Form Settings

After you have created the lead generation form, you can start configuring form settings to display the required output on form submission.

For making configuration settings, click the ‘Settings’ option. You will get three setting options to configure that are General, Notifications, and Confirmations.

General Form Settings

To make the general form settings, click the tab Settings >> General to get the options as showing in the image below.

In the general settings, you can configure options like Form Name, Description, CSS class, Submit button text, and Submit button processing text.

It is also useful to enable Ajax form submission for your form to allow form submission without any page refresh.

Notifications Settings

The Notifications setting is useful to display the notifications to your users after form submission. To make this setting, click the setting option tab Settings >> Notifications.

You can change the default settings like the sender email address, email subject, from the name, and from email.

It is also use to set options like reply-to and message from the users. Each setting option contains smart tags to display all form fields as a result.

Confirmations Settings

The confirmation settings is useful to give confirmation to users on form submission. To make this setting, you have to click the tab Settings >> Confirmations to get various options.

You can change the message types and add a confirmation message to display on form submission.

It can also useful to configure options to show a different page to users or redirect to other URLs on form submission.

Step 6 Connect WPForms and Sendinblue Account

After you have done creating the lead generation form, it’s time to connect your form with Sendinblue. Click on the ‘Marketing’ tab and click the ‘Sendinblue’ option as indicated below. After that, click the ‘Add New Connection’ button to connect with your Sendinblue account.

Select an account and action you want to perform for the selected account. You can select the ‘Subscribe’ option to collect leads from this form on your WordPress website.

After that, select other fields as showing in the image below. You can select an email list to save emails to it from the lead generation form.

Now, select the form field for the custom Sendinblue field as showing in the image below.

You can also enable the conditional logic to apply conditions for the connection of leads and Sendinblue.

Step 7 Embed Signup Form Using Shortcode

After you have completed creating a lead generation form and connecting with the Sendinblue account with proper setup, you can embed the form to your posts and pages using a shortcode.

To embed the form to your WordPress website posts and pages, you have to click the ‘EMBED’ button given at the top-right corner of the screen as showing in the image below.

You will get a popup where you have to click the link ‘use a shortcode’ to get the shortcode. After that, copy the shortcode and paste it where you want to display the lead generation form connected with your Sendinblue account.

After that, check the posts and pages showing the forms where you have inserted the shortcode.

Now, your lead generation form is live on your WordPress website and each time the user signup with the form, it gets saved to the Sendinblue email lists you have selected for the form.

Conclusion

WordPress leads and Sendinblue can easily be connected using the WPForms plugin. You can create a signup form, connected with your Sendinblue account, and display it anywhere on your website to generate leads for your website and Sendinblue.

Anytime your WordPress website visitors fill out the form, it gets automatically added as a new lead to your chosen Sendinblue account email list.

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I hope this post helps you to easily find the best plugin that helps you connect Connect WPForms and Sendinblue. If you have any queries regarding the tutorial given above, please comment below.

Also tell me, which tool you are using to generate leads and connect with Sendinblue? do comment below.

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