Intuit Mailchimp MCP Server

Community MCP server for the Mailchimp Marketing API with 112 tools for campaigns, audiences, automations, templates, landing pages, and e-commerce.

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Overview

Mailchimp MCP Server is a community-maintained Model Context Protocol server that wraps the Mailchimp Marketing API. It exposes roughly 112 tools across the Mailchimp surface area: account info, audiences and members, campaigns and reports, segments and tags, merge fields, interest categories, automations, templates, landing pages, webhooks, e-commerce stores/orders/products/customers/carts, promo rules and codes, and batch operations. The server is written in Python and authenticates with a standard Mailchimp API key, automatically extracting the datacenter suffix (e.g. us8, us21) from the key.

Notable safety features include MAILCHIMP_READ_ONLY=true, which blocks all write tools so the server can be used for reporting and exploration without risk of mutating audience data, and MAILCHIMP_DRY_RUN=true, which previews write actions without actually calling the API. This makes the server suitable for both reporting workflows and agent-driven campaign automation.

Important context: Intuit and Anthropic announced a partnership in 2025 to bring official MCP integrations to TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, but at present there is no Intuit-published Mailchimp MCP server. The most feature-complete community option is damientilman/mailchimp-mcp-server, documented here. Other community alternatives (AgentX-ai, CData, Zapier MCP, etc.) exist with varying tradeoffs.

Tools

Tool	Description
`get_account_info`	Returns account name, email, and subscriber count for the connected Mailchimp account.
`list_campaigns`	List campaigns with filters (status, type, etc.).
`get_campaign_details`	Retrieve full details for a specific campaign.
`create_campaign`	Create a new campaign (regular, A/B, RSS, etc.).
`set_campaign_content`	Set the HTML content of a campaign.
`schedule_campaign`	Schedule a campaign for sending at a given time.
`send_campaign`	Send a campaign immediately.
`send_test_email`	Send a test email for a campaign to specified recipients.
`get_campaign_report`	Performance metrics for a sent campaign (opens, clicks, bounces).
`get_campaign_click_details`	Per-link click breakdown for a campaign.
`get_campaign_locations`	Geographic distribution of opens.
`list_audiences`	List all audiences (lists) in the account.
`search_members`	Search for subscribers by email or query across an audience.
`add_member`	Add a subscriber to an audience with merge fields and tags.
`batch_subscribe`	Bulk subscribe members to an audience.
`tag_member`	Add or remove tags on a member.
`create_segment`	Create static or dynamic segment with conditions.
`list_automations`	List automation workflows in the account.
`pause_automation`	Pause a running automation workflow.
`start_automation`	Start (resume) an automation workflow.
`list_templates`	List saved email templates.
`create_template`	Create a new email template from HTML.
`create_landing_page`	Create a landing page tied to an audience.
`publish_landing_page`	Publish a landing page.
`list_ecommerce_stores`	List connected e-commerce stores.
`list_store_orders`	List orders for an e-commerce store.
`list_store_carts`	List carts including abandoned carts.
`create_promo_rule`	Create a discount rule (fixed, percentage, or free shipping).
`create_promo_code`	Generate a promo code under a promo rule.
`create_webhook`	Register a webhook on an audience.
`create_batch`	Submit a batch operation against the Mailchimp Batch API.
`get_batch_status`	Check status of a submitted batch.

Setup Guide

Prerequisites

Python 3.10 or later
A Mailchimp account and API key in the format <key>-<dc> (e.g. abc123-us8). The datacenter is auto-detected from the key.

Install

The package is published to PyPI as mailchimp-mcp. Run it via uvx (recommended) or pip:

# Recommended
uvx mailchimp-mcp

# Or
pip install mailchimp-mcp
mailchimp-mcp

From source:

git clone https://github.com/damientilman/mailchimp-mcp-server.git
cd mailchimp-mcp-server
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

MCP Client Configuration

Standard (read/write):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mailchimp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mailchimp-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "MAILCHIMP_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Read-only mode (blocks all write tools, recommended for shared or exploratory setups):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mailchimp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mailchimp-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "MAILCHIMP_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here",
        "MAILCHIMP_READ_ONLY": "true"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Purpose
`MAILCHIMP_API_KEY`	Yes	Mailchimp API key with datacenter suffix
`MAILCHIMP_READ_ONLY`	No	When `true`, all write tools are disabled
`MAILCHIMP_DRY_RUN`	No	When `true`, write tools return previews instead of calling the API

Use Cases

Pull campaign reports (opens, clicks, bounces, geographic and domain breakdowns) into Claude for weekly performance summaries.
Create, schedule, and send regular or A/B campaigns end to end, including setting HTML content and sending test emails.
Maintain audiences programmatically: batch subscribe imported leads, tag members, manage merge fields and segments.
Pause or resume automation workflows during high-volume events (sales, launches) or campaign blackouts.
Manage Mailchimp e-commerce: list stores/orders/products, recover abandoned carts, and generate promo rules and discount codes.

Example Prompts

"Summarize the open rate, CTR, and top three clicked links for my last five sent campaigns."
"Add these 200 leads to the Newsletter audience with the tag webinar-may and skip anyone already subscribed."
"Create a draft campaign for audience Customers, use template Monthly Update, schedule it for Tuesday 9am ET, and send me a test email first."
"Find all members in the Newsletter audience who haven't opened anything in 90 days and put them in a segment called Re-engage Q2."
"List all abandoned carts in my Shopify store over $50 from the last 7 days and generate a 15% off promo code for each."

Pros

Very broad coverage of the Mailchimp Marketing API (around 112 tools spanning campaigns, audiences, automations, templates, landing pages, e-commerce, and batch).
Built-in safety modes: MAILCHIMP_READ_ONLY blocks all writes, and MAILCHIMP_DRY_RUN previews writes without executing them.
Simple API key auth with automatic datacenter detection; works with any MCP client.
Published to PyPI as mailchimp-mcp, runnable via uvx with no manual cloning.

Limitations

Community-maintained, not an official Intuit/Mailchimp project. Despite Intuit's announced Anthropic partnership, no official Mailchimp MCP server has been published.
API key auth means the key has full account scope; there is no per-tool OAuth scoping. Use read-only mode for shared environments.
Some advanced Mailchimp features (Customer Journeys builder, Transactional/Mandrill, advanced AI content tools) are not fully covered.

Alternatives

AgentX-ai/mailchimp-mcp: read-only MCP server focused on retrieval and reporting.
CDataSoftware/mailchimp-mcp-server-by-cdata: read-only access via CData JDBC drivers.
Zapier MCP for Mailchimp: hosted alternative that routes Mailchimp actions through Zapier without self-hosting.