Optin Cat Premium, Business, and Elite are paid editions of Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat. They help bloggers, marketers, and small businesses create signup forms on self-hosted WordPress sites. A MailChimp account and at least one list are required.

Form placement and design

Create an unlimited number of forms without coding. Choose post boxes for posts and pages, sidebar widgets, or lightbox popups that appear over page content. Post boxes can be inserted with a shortcode or Gutenberg MailChimp block, or appended automatically to posts and pages. Adjust fonts, colors, and layout settings; responsive designs help forms display across devices.

Popup controls and paid features

Paid features include mobile MailChimp popups, mobile Campaign Monitor popups, additional layout and design options, and popup effects. Smart targeting can use display frequency, time on page, selected posts, pages or categories, and visitor scrolling. Premium includes targeting by pageviews during the current visit. Exit intervention is included with Business and Elite.

• Trigger a two-step optin popup when a visitor clicks a hyperlink.
• Deliver optin baits directly from WordPress.
• Use MailChimp single optin to disable double optin.

Form analytics track impressions and conversions in the WordPress dashboard, where you can compare form performance.

Set up and publish forms

In the WordPress dashboard, go to Optin Cat and pick Add New. Select a form type, configure its design, connect it to your MailChimp account and list, and set a Thank You page. Use the form’s Publication options to deploy it. Add post boxes with a shortcode or Gutenberg block, or append them automatically to selected content. Add sidebar forms through the WordPress Widgets screen.

For popups, targeting can control display frequency, time on page, selected posts, pages or categories, and scrolling. Premium also supports targeting by pageviews during the current visit; Business and Elite include exit intervention.

Data and privacy

The extension stores names and email addresses collected through forms in the WordPress database and integrates with WordPress privacy controls for data export and deletion. A browser cookie tracks successful optins. Connecting to a third-party service such as MailChimp may involve sharing personal data with that service.