Share Your Signup Form

Before You Start

Here are some things to know before you begin this process.

• You must create a list and design your signup form before you can share it.
• These built-in share options send potential subscribers to the MailChimp-hosted signup form. You can also host your own custom signup form.

• Each signup form URL is randomly generated for your specific list and can't be customized.

Find Share Options

1. Navigate to the Lists page.
2. Click the drop-down menu next to the list you want to work with, and choose Signup forms.
   
3. Select General forms.
   

In the Form Builder, you'll see a Signup form URL field along with three icons for built-in sharing methods: Facebook, Twitter, and QR code. The URL is a direct link to your hosted signup form.

Share on Facebook

Depending on your needs, you may want to embed a signup form on your Facebook Page or just share a link to your form in a Timeline post. To embed your form, you'll need to set up the Facebook integration.

To share your signup form link in a Facebook post, follow these steps.

1. Navigate to General Forms.
2. Click the Facebook icon.
   
   If you're not already signed into Facebook, you'll be prompted to log in.
3. In the Facebook pop-up modal, click the drop-down menu and choose on which page you want to post the signup form link.
   
4. Type in additional text to share in the post and click Share Link.
   The link to your signup form will appear as a Timeline post.

Share on Twitter

If you have Twitter followers who might want to receive your email content, you can tweet a link to your signup form. If you’re a Twitter Ads user, you can also add a signup form with Twitter's Lead Generation Card.

To share the link to your signup form in a tweet, follow these steps.

1. Navigate to General Forms.
2. Click the Twitter icon.
   
   If you’re not already signed into Twitter, you’ll be prompted to log in.
3. In the Twitter window or pop-up modal, type in additional text to appear with the shortened link.
   
4. Click Tweet.

Share With QR Code

Marketers sometimes use QR codes instead of a text URL to send people to a website. MailChimp generates a QR code for each of your list's signup forms, so you can display a QR code in your printed materials.

Potential subscribers can use their mobile devices to scan the code and view your signup form. To access the QR code, follow these steps.

1. Navigate to General Forms.
2. Click the QR code icon.
   
3.  In the pop-up modal, click Small, Medium, or Large to choose the size of image you want to download.
   
4. If your QR code doesn’t download automatically, right-click or CTRL+click the image, and save it to your computer.
5. Place the image file in your printed materials.

Share in a Campaign

To share a signup form in a campaign, add a link in campaign content using the *|LIST:SUBSCRIBE|* merge tag in place of a click-through URL. When you send your campaign, MailChimp will replace the *|LIST:SUBSCRIBE|* merge tag with the signup form URL. Any time someone receives a forwarded campaign or views your campaign archive, they'll be able to sign up to your list.

Getting Started With Merge Tags

Include Your Signup Form Link in a Campaign

Add a Forward to a Friend Link

Embed a Form on Your Website

When you create a list, we provide HTML code for a signup form that can be customized and embedded on your website. Choose which type of form best fits your needs: Classic, Super Slim, Horizontal, or Naked. Then copy and paste the code into your website's HTML, wherever you want the signup form to appear.

Add a Signup Form to Your Website