Newsletter in django (MailChimp)

[Bart]

Hello!

I am starting implementation of newsletter functionality on my website. I'd like to ask for reco on best practices. I think I will be using MailChimp since it looks quite simple in implementation

few questions that are in my mind:

1.  should I store newsletter information (emails, subscribers, etc) in database of the website or just call MailChimp API with every user subscription? Calling API directly will make my data being sent to mailchimp and available only there. Actually I dont see any point to store this in website DB and use e.g. django-newsletter app. Am I right or I am missing something? Calling MailChimp API every time I need newsletter action may cause some delays probably. 

2. there is a mailchimp package for easier API calls - I found that and seems to be ok. ANyone got any problems with that?

has anyone experience with newsletter implementation?

Any feedback welcome.

Thank you!

B.

[Karen Tracey]

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