# Integrating OptiMonk campaigns with SendGrid (Bizzy)

Canonical URL: https://support.optimonk.com/en/articles/integrating-optimonk-campaigns-with-sendgrid-bizzy

This article walks you through connecting [SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com/) to an OptiMonk campaign. Once you are done, everyone who fills out your popup form is added to the SendGrid contact list you picked — no exports, no copy-paste.

**Before you start:** you need a SendGrid account and a campaign in OptiMonk whose popup is already built. The field mapping step reads the input fields straight from your popup, so there is nothing to map until the popup exists.

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## Connect SendGrid to your campaign

1. Open **Campaigns** in the left menu and click the campaign you want to connect with SendGrid.
2. Open the **Integrations** tab of the campaign.
3. Click **Add integration**. If the campaign has no integration yet, the same step is offered as *Connect your email or SMS tool*.
4. **Provider** step: pick **SendGrid**. It sits in the **Popular** row at the top, so you usually don't have to look for it — but you can also type into the *Search providers…* box. Accounts you have already connected are listed above the grid, under *Your connected accounts*.
5. **Account** step: choose a SendGrid account you have already connected, or fill in the credential form to add a new one.

- **Name (optional)** — a label so you recognise this connection later. Leave it empty and the provider name is used.
- **API key** — *To locate your API key: Log in to your SendGrid dashboard. Click on Settings, then API Keys. You can create a new API key for OptiMonk, then copy that key here.*

Click **Connect**. There is no separate "test connection" button: OptiMonk checks the credentials while it saves them, and if they are wrong, you get *Connection failed — check the credentials* right under the form.
6. **List** step: *Pick the list or segment new signups should join.* Use *Search lists…* if you have many of them, then click **Continue**.
7. **Field mapping** step: decide where each popup field goes in SendGrid (see below), then click **Save integration**.

That's it. Whenever a visitor signs up through your popup, they are added to the SendGrid list you picked.

**Draft vs. live:** if the campaign has not been published yet, the integration is shown with a **Draft** pill and the note *Saved as draft — it goes live when you publish the campaign.* On a published campaign the integration is applied right away and shows as **Active**.

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## Field mapping

The mapping table has two columns: **Popup field** on the left (every input your popup collects) and **SendGrid field** on the right. OptiMonk pre-fills the mapping with its own suggestions, so in most cases you only need to check it.

- The **email** field is fixed — it always maps to `email`.
- Pick **Don't sync** for any popup field you don't want to send.
- If SendGrid returns its list of fields, the right column is a dropdown. If it doesn't, you get a free-text box instead, and the hint *Type the exact SendGrid field or property name (e.g. first_name). Leave empty to skip a field.*

**A note on static fields.** With most providers, you can send a fixed value with every submission (a campaign name, a source tag). SendGrid is one of the few where OptiMonk does not offer this, so the **Static fields** block is hidden on this provider — if you want to mark where a contact came from, do it with a SendGrid-side segment or automation instead.

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## Change or remove the integration

The Integrations tab lists every integration on the campaign with its list name.

- **Change list** reopens the wizard at the list step, so you can pick a different list and go on to the mapping.
- The bin icon removes the integration from this campaign: *Remove from this campaign? The account connection stays and can be added again.* Your SendGrid API key is not deleted, so you can reuse the same connection on another campaign.