ActiveCampaign Integration

2 min readUpdated April 20, 2026

ActiveCampaign is a widely used email marketing and CRM platform known for its powerful automation capabilities. WP Smart Consent integrates with ActiveCampaign via the Contacts API, forwarding opted-in contacts to your ActiveCampaign account in real time.

What You’ll Need#

An ActiveCampaign API key and API URL. To find them, log into your ActiveCampaign account, go to Settings → Developer, and copy both your API key and API URL.

Setting It Up#

In the WP Smart Consent dashboard, go to Integrations and find the ActiveCampaign card. Enable it, paste in your API key and API URL, and save. WP Smart Consent will connect to your ActiveCampaign account and populate a list dropdown with your available lists. Select the list you want opted-in contacts added to.

List Selection#

ActiveCampaign requires a list to be selected — contacts are added to a specific list rather than to your account globally. Select the appropriate list from the dropdown after entering your credentials.

What Gets Sent#

When a visitor opts in, WP Smart Consent forwards their first name, last name, and email address to ActiveCampaign. The contact is added to your selected list immediately.

Works Alongside Other Integrations#

Enabling the ActiveCampaign integration doesn’t affect any of your other active integrations. Each destination is independent — a single opt-in event will be forwarded to ActiveCampaign and every other enabled destination simultaneously, and logged with the source integration that captured it.