Hive Mail finds supported plugins by itself. Nothing is switched on by hand: a shop or form plugin appears as soon as it is active, and its triggers, rule types and merge tags appear with it. Automation > Integrations lists what was found on your site, and Settings > Integrations shows the same with the number of flows that use each one (Settings: Integrations).
Everything at a glance #
| Integration | What it does | Where to set it up | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| WooCommerce | Customers and their orders, abandoned carts with recovery links, a sign-up box at checkout; order and cart triggers, rule types and merge tags | Settings > WooCommerce, then WooCommerce in the menu | WooCommerce, Abandoned cart recovery |
| Easy Digital Downloads | Customers and purchases, a sign-up box at checkout; purchase, first purchase, refund and download triggers. No carts | Settings > Easy Digital Downloads | Easy Digital Downloads |
| Fluent Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Elementor forms | Keep the form you already built: each submission becomes a contact and can start a flow | Audience > Forms > Connected forms, or Settings > Integrations | Connect a form you already use, Manage connected forms |
| Hive Mail signup forms | Forms built in Hive Mail, placed with a shortcode or block | Audience > Forms | Signup forms |
| Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, Google reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 | Check that a signup form is sent by a person | Settings > Forms | Spam protection and CAPTCHA |
| WordPress events | Triggers for a user registering, logging in, changing role, or a post being published | In a flow, when you choose what starts it | Triggers |
| Incoming webhook | Any service can start a flow with a signed POST |
The flow's trigger panel | Webhooks and API keys |
| Call a webhook step | A flow posts the contact as JSON to an address you choose | A step in a flow | Steps |
| CSV files | Import and export contacts | Audience > Import / Export | Import contacts from CSV |
| WordPress users | Import users by role | Audience > Import / Export | Import WordPress users |
| Mail Mint, FluentCRM | Copy lists, tags, custom fields and contacts from the other plugin (read only; the other plugin is never changed) | Audience > Import / Export | Move from another plugin |
| FluentCRM (full migration) | The guided migration from Settings > Migration | Settings > Migration | Migrate from FluentCRM |
| WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and AffiliateWP customers | Import buyers or affiliates into a list, and keep adding new ones (live sync) | Audience > Import / Export | Move from another plugin |
WordPress mail (wp_mail) |
The default way emails leave the site. An SMTP plugin already on the site keeps working and is named in the readiness checks | Settings > Sending | Settings: Sending |
| Mailgun | Sends each email through the Mailgun API (US or EU region) | Settings > Sending, or constants in wp-config.php |
Settings: Sending |
| SendGrid | Sends each email through the SendGrid API | Settings > Sending, or constants in wp-config.php |
Settings: Sending |
| Bounce and complaint reports | Mailgun, SendGrid or any service (generic JSON) reports bounces; Hive Mail stops emailing those addresses | Deliverability > Bounces & Suppressions | Bounces and suppressions |
| Cookie-consent tools | Hive Mail finds Complianz, CookieYes, Cookiebot, iubenda, Cookie Compliance (Hu-manity), GDPR Cookie Compliance (Moove), WPConsent, WPLP Cookie Consent, Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner, Real Cookie Banner, Borlabs Cookie, Termly, consentmanager and Quantcast Choice, shows no banner of its own beside them, and follows their answer where it can. The WP Consent API is supported | Settings > Tracking & Privacy | Use with a cookie consent plugin |
| REST API | Read and change your data from another program, with an application password | Settings > Webhooks & API | REST API: introduction and authentication |
| PHP hooks and registries | Run code on events, add a delivery method, trigger, segment rule or menu entry | In code | Extending Hive Mail |
Notes #
- Nothing is created without consent rules. A form submission or webhook request makes a contact only when an active flow listens to it, and the flow's Permission to email rule decides the status. An existing contact's status is never changed by a form, a shop or an import; nobody who unsubscribed, bounced or complained is subscribed again by them.
- Shops add transactional contacts. A buyer who is not a contact yet can be added as a transactional contact, so order emails reach them and marketing emails and campaigns never do.
- Sending services and tracking. When you send through Mailgun or SendGrid, their own open and click tracking is switched off; Hive Mail's tracking is the only one (Email tracking).
- Keys. Keep Mailgun and SendGrid keys out of the database with the constants
HIVEMAIL_MAILGUN_API_KEY,HIVEMAIL_MAILGUN_SIGNING_KEYandHIVEMAIL_SENDGRID_API_KEY(Developer guide). - A plugin missing from this list can still send people in through the incoming webhook, the REST API or a CSV file.
Next: Settings: Integrations, Automation integrations, Developer guide.
