User Story: Wanting to subscribe

[Fehings]

User story

"User visiting the site, needs the capability to subscribe to the ClaytonTV mailing list, so that they can keep up to date with the latest news, features and video content"

Details

Basically we want to replicate the current subscription functionality.

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] Have a subscribe link somewhere on the home page, at the very bottom might make most sense, linked from a 'stay in touch' hyperlink or button.
• [ ] When the subscribe link is clicked it should take the user to a new page with a bit of information about what they are signing up for (copy text from current site) and with a link to the privacy policy.
• [ ] The subscribe page should have a text field for typing in an email address
• [ ] The subscribe page should have a 'subscribe' button which when clicked checks for an email address in the text field (expect text in an email format)
• [ ] If there is a valid email address when subscribe is clicked, submit this email address to the mailchimp handler
• [ ] If there is not a valid email address when the subscribe button is clicked, display an error message to tell the user that they need to write a valid email address in the text box before pressing the button

Estimation of work

Most of this is straightforward, the only bit that might be tricky is working with the mailchimp API, though I think this should be a straightforward POST request. Will likely need @Ettie-ClaytonTV to help provide credentials to the clayton account.

Updates

Any updates from further down the thread are encouraged so people can easily see the status of this issue

[Fehings]

https://www.merge.dev/blog/how-to-add-a-subscriber-and-more-with-the-mailchimp-api

[Ettie-ClaytonTV]

I'm hoping this will be split to sign up for varying different things. e.g content updates, prayer updatings, general updates

[Ettie-ClaytonTV]

This will probably stay as the below code for the MVP unless I can move forward on the new finance setup too as these will probably use the same new software.

This is the mailchimp code

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[Ettie-ClaytonTV]

There are also options for pop up banners but it looks like to be able to do that I need a URL to point it to, before I can create it