Connect your app to Mailchimp Transactional
Connect your Lovable app to Mailchimp Transactional using an API key to send automated emails like order confirmations, use email templates, and track delivery status. It gives your app a shared connection to handle individual messages triggered by user actions.
Anyone who needs to send automated emails with attachments, schedule messages, or monitor delivery statuses from their app.
Do this, in order
- 1
Go to Connectors in your Lovable dashboard and select Mailchimp Transactional.
This opens the setup page for the integration.
- 2
Click Connect to open the setup form.
This starts the connection configuration.
- 3
Give your connection an identifiable name under Details.
A clear name helps you recognize this specific connection inside Lovable.
- 4
Paste your Mailchimp Transactional API key into the API key field.
Lovable needs this key to authenticate with your Mailchimp account.
- 5
Choose your sharing settings under Sharing, selecting either private access or sharing with workspace members.
This controls who else on your team can link this email connection to their projects.
- 6
Click Connect at the bottom of the form.
Lovable checks that the API key works and saves the connection.
- 7
Ask Lovable in your project chat to link to Mailchimp Transactional and set up your email trigger.
This instructs Lovable to write the code that sends messages using your verified domain.
Paste this into your project
Use Mailchimp Transactional to send an order confirmation after checkout. Send from orders@yourdomain.com and include the order number, purchased items, and total. Show delivery activity on an admin page.
Words decoded
- Transactional email
- An automated message sent to a single person triggered by their action in an app, such as an order confirmation or password reset, rather than a bulk marketing newsletter.
- API key
- A private code that gives your Lovable app permission to communicate with your external account.
- Sending domain
- The web domain in your email address (like company.com) that has been verified to prove you actually own it and prevent your messages from going to spam.
Where people get stuck
- Do not confuse Mailchimp Transactional with standard Mailchimp; standard Mailchimp is for bulk marketing campaigns and newsletters, while Transactional is for automated individual trigger emails.
- Your emails will fail to send if your sending domain is not verified and authenticated in Mailchimp Transactional beforehand.
- The Lovable chat cannot view your email stats or delivery status directly; you must prompt Lovable to build a dashboard inside your app to display that data.
- Deleting a connection permanently breaks email features across all projects linked to it until a replacement connection is added.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.