People who start a chat on your site are often your warmest prospects, but their emails stay in the Tawk.to dashboard. FlowMattic adds chat visitors and offline ticket senders to your Mailchimp audience, with tags and notes that say what they asked about. Site owners and small sales teams can then follow up with the right emails.
9 triggers16 actions5 example workflows1 ready-made templateUnlimited runs
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When this happens in Tawk.to3 triggers
Do this in Mailchimp16 actions
1. TriggerChat Start
2. ActionAdd New Member
When Tawk.to fires Chat Start, FlowMattic runs Add New Member in Mailchimp with the data from that event.
You build this in the FlowMattic workflow builder on your own site. See the setup steps
Tawk.to and Mailchimp workflows you can build
Each one uses only triggers and actions the two integrations ship today, plus FlowMattic's own tools. Where the library has a ready-made template, import it instead of building from scratch.
Ready-made template
Add each chat visitor to your Mailchimp audience
When a chat starts, the visitor's name and email from the pre-chat form are added as a Mailchimp member, so the conversation is not the last you hear of them.
After the chat ends, add the member and let a Router apply a Sales, Support or Billing tag, so Mailchimp segments follow what people asked about.
Chat End→Add New Member→Router→Add Member Tag
Save offline ticket senders with their question as a note
Messages left while you were offline add the sender to Mailchimp and store the ticket subject as a member note, so the reply email has context.
Capture New Ticket→Add New Member→Add Member Note
Add only visitors who ticked the newsletter box
A Filter checks a consent question in the pre-chat form and continues only when the visitor agreed, so your audience holds people who asked to be there.
Chat Start→Filter→Add New Member
Summarise each chat with AI and keep it on the member
An AI Agent step turns the finished chat into a two-line summary, which is saved as a Mailchimp note on the visitor's profile for whoever writes to them next.
Chat End→AI Agent→Add Member Note
Set up: chat visitors added to Mailchimp
When you are done, each visitor who starts a chat and gives an email is added to your Mailchimp audience.
1
Ask for an email before chats
In Tawk.to, turn on a pre-chat form that asks for name and email, so each chat has an address to add.
2
Connect Mailchimp
In FlowMattic, add a Mailchimp connection under Connects with the account that owns the audience.
3
Trigger on Chat Start
Create a workflow with Tawk.to Chat Start, follow the setup shown in the trigger, and start a test chat to capture data.
4
Add the member
Add Mailchimp Add New Member, pick the audience, map the email and name, test and switch the workflow on.
New SubscriberTriggers when a new subscriber is added
New UnsubscriberTriggers when any current subscriber unsubscribes
Profile UpdatesTriggers when a profile updated
Cleaned EmailsTrigger when emails cleaned
Email Address ChangesTrigger when email address changes
New CampaignTriggers when a new campaign is created or sent
Actions (16)
Add New MemberAdd a new member to the list
Add Member TagAdd a new tag to the existing member. New tags will be added if they are not exist.
Remove Member TagRemove a tag from the list member.
Add Member NoteAdd a new note to the existing member.
Delete List MemberRemove a member from the audience list.
Update MemberUpdate an existing member. Fails if the member does not already exist on the list.
Find MemberLook up a member by email and return their full record
Archive MemberArchive a member from the audience list. Their data is kept but they no longer count toward the list size. Reversible (unlike Delete List Member).
Add Member EventRecord a custom event for a member. Useful for triggering customer-journey automations
Add Member to SegmentAdd an existing member to a static segment
Remove Member from SegmentRemove a member from a static segment
Get All MembersFetch a page of members from the audience list
Send CampaignSend an existing campaign by ID
Create CampaignCreate a new regular campaign for an audience list
Create AudienceCreate a new audience list
Make API CallSend a custom request to any Mailchimp Marketing API endpoint. Power-user escape hatch
Why run this pair with FlowMattic
Tawk.to and Mailchimp connect through FlowMattic on your own site, with no separate automation account in the middle and no charge per run.
Chat contacts stay on your route
Visitor details go from Tawk.to to Mailchimp through your WordPress server, not another automation account.
Busy chat days cost the same
Runs are unlimited, so a day with hundreds of chats needs no bigger plan.
Context travels with the contact
Tags and notes record what each person chatted about, so follow-up emails can match their question.
Common questions
What does the Tawk.to Mailchimp integration do?
It adds people who chat with you or leave an offline ticket in Tawk.to to a Mailchimp audience. FlowMattic can also tag them by topic, filter on consent and save a note about the conversation.
Should I add visitors at the start or the end of a chat?
Chat Start adds them early, which suits a simple list. Chat End is better when you want to tag or summarise based on what was said.
Can Mailchimp events update Tawk.to?
No. Tawk.to has no actions in FlowMattic, so data only flows from Tawk.to into Mailchimp here.
Will a repeat visitor be added twice?
Mailchimp holds one member per email address in an audience, so a returning visitor is not stored as a second member. Tags and notes can still be added each time.
Is it legal to add chat visitors to my list?
That depends on where you and your visitors are. A consent question in the pre-chat form with a Filter on it is the safe way to add only people who agreed.
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Reviewed 23 Oct 2026. The example workflows are written with AI from the real triggers and actions of both integrations and checked against them. Tawk.to integration 1.0, Mailchimp integration 2.1.0.