Daily

Get a morning list of new subscribers

Each morning you see who joined your list in the last day, with names and sign-up source.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Mailchimp
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 8am, email me the Mailchimp subscribers who joined in the last 24 hours with their names and signup source.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

If you run a Mailchimp list tied to a lead magnet, a webinar or a store, the number of people who joined yesterday is the first sign of whether your latest post or ad worked. But finding it means logging in, opening the audience, sorting by signup date and counting by hand, which most people do on Monday and then forget until the next month.

Each morning, ClickRuntime asks Mailchimp for members whose opt-in timestamp falls in the last 24 hours, counts them, builds a list with their names and emails, and sends you that digest. It also stores the daily count as a counter, so the trend over the past days can be compared at a glance.

It works well for a founder who wants one email to start the day and for sales teams who follow up with new leads by name.

What you get out of it

Yesterday's growth is in your inbox before coffee
You see how many people joined and who they are without opening Mailchimp. If a campaign brought in 80 people overnight, you know in the morning while there is still time to follow up.
Cause and effect become visible
Because the count arrives every day, a spike lines up with the post, ad or podcast mention that caused it. After a month you know which activities actually bring subscribers and which only feel productive.
Quiet days are noticed too
A day with zero signups is information as well. If a broken form or an expired popup stops new contacts, the digest shows a count of 0 the next morning instead of weeks later.
Names for a personal first touch
The list includes each new member, so someone on the team can send a personal welcome or note a high-value domain. A real greeting within hours converts better than waiting for the generic automated one.
A stored trend without a spreadsheet
The daily count is kept as a counter, so you can compare this week with last without exporting anything. It replaces the manual tracking sheet that is always three weeks out of date.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning, ClickRuntime checks your Mailchimp audience for people who subscribed in the last 24 hours.
It counts them and lists each name, email and how they signed up.
You get one email with the list, and the daily count is kept so you can see the trend.

Before it runs live

Connect Mailchimp

What you get

RunsDaily

Get a morning list of new subscriberstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · New subscribers14 new subscribers Dana Ortiz <dana@northwind.example> via Hosted Signup Form

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Mailchimp steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

daily_new_subscriber_digest.pyexample

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials, notify

LIST_ID = "AUDIENCE_ID"

def mailchimp(method, path, **kw):
    key = credentials.secret("MAILCHIMP_API_KEY")
    r = http.request(method, f"https://{key.split('-')[-1]}.api.mailchimp.com/3.0{path}", auth=("clickruntime", key), **kw)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json() if r.content else None

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    since = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(hours=24)).isoformat()
    members = mailchimp("GET", f"/lists/{LIST_ID}/members", params={
        "status": "subscribed", "since_timestamp_opt": since, "count": 1000,
        "fields": "members.email_address,members.merge_fields,members.source"})["members"]
    lines = [f"{m['merge_fields'].get('FNAME', '')} {m['merge_fields'].get('LNAME', '')} <{m['email_address']}> via {m['source']}"
             for m in members]
    notify.email_me(f"{len(members)} new subscribers", "\n".join(lines) or "No new subscribers yesterday.")
    return {"new": len(members)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it include people who were added by import?

It reports members by the opt-in timestamp Mailchimp has recorded for the previous 24 hours. A bulk import usually stamps each contact with the time it was added, so a large upload can make a single day look unusually high.

Will unsubscribed or cleaned contacts show up?

The digest focuses on members who joined in the window. If someone signed up and unsubscribed within the same day, whether they appear depends on their status when the list is read, so treat the count as new signups, not net growth.

Can the digest cover more than one audience?

Each digest is tied to one Mailchimp audience, because the counter is kept per list. If you run separate lists for customers and prospects, you can set up one for each and have them arrive as separate emails.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

On a schedule