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MKT AUTO
Velocity6.3

Email marketing software for growing businesses

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MailerLite ships two-way Shopify sync and an AI agent skill while building out its editor with code blocks and video.

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◆Current state
MailerLite is shipping steadily on two tracks: deepening its e-commerce integrations (two-way Shopify sync, product variant targeting for purchase triggers) and expanding the editor's capability surface (code blocks, video blocks, full color picker, copy-paste across all automation steps). The ChatGPT directory listing and the email marketing skill for AI agents signal an early positioning in the AI tooling ecosystem.
◆Where it's heading
The two-way Shopify sync is the clearest signal of where this is heading: MailerLite wants to be the authoritative subscriber record, not just a send layer on top of Shopify data. The AI agent skill points toward MailerLite becoming accessible to AI coding agents — a channel that could drive meaningful developer adoption if other integrations follow the same pattern.
◆Prediction
Variant-level purchase triggers will roll out to Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce, and the two-way sync will likely expand to other e-commerce platforms. The AI agent skill will probably be expanded to cover more campaign operations as AI coding tools become more widely used.

◆Recent moves

  1. 20d ago

    Shopify sync now works both ways

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    MailerLite's Shopify integration now syncs both ways — subscriber changes in MailerLite push back to Shopify, and new MailerLite subscribers are created in Shopify. This changes MailerLite from a downstream consumer of Shopify data into a bidirectional source of record for subscriber state.

  2. 21d ago

    Smarter field mapping on CSV import

    CSV import now pre-selects field mappings based on column headers — a small UX improvement that reduces setup friction on data imports.

  3. 29d ago

    Control your re-engagement audience size

    Re-engagement automations can now send to a configurable percentage of the target segment (defaulting to ~10% of active subscribers), with the rest remaining in the segment for future runs — useful for managing send volume without disqualifying the full inactive pool.

  4. 29d ago

    Share draft campaigns safely, with a passcode

    Draft campaigns can now be shared for external review via a passcode-protected link — reviewers get a read-only preview without needing a MailerLite account, and the link always points to the latest version of the draft.

  5. 1mo ago

    Simple Editor: Code blocks, video, and more color control

    The Simple Editor gained a code block for custom HTML inserts, configurable heading font sizes (global and per-block), a full color picker replacing the 8-swatch preset, and a video block with controls for YouTube and Vimeo embeds including YouTube Shorts support.

  6. 1mo ago

    MailerLite is now in the ChatGPT directory

    MailerLite is now listed in ChatGPT's app directory, allowing ChatGPT users to connect their account directly from within a chat session — part of MailerLite's emerging presence in AI tooling ecosystems.