Connect beehiiv and Sam can work inside your publication: manage subscribers, report on how each post did, and draft, test and publish new posts. Publishing a post and enrolling someone in an automation both wait for you to confirm first.
What Sam can look up in beehiiv
- Your publication's details, and every publication your key can reach
- Your subscribers, found by email, status or tier, with their custom fields
- Your segments and who is in them
- Your posts, drafts and templates, with a preview link for any draft
- How each post performed: recipients, opens, clicks and unsubscribes
- Your automations and one-off email blasts
What Sam can do in beehiiv
- Add subscribers one at a time or in bulk, and update their tier or custom fields
- Export your subscribers to a CSV file
- Refresh a segment so its numbers are current
- Draft a new post, with the full email written in. Asks you first.
- Publish or schedule a draft post. Once it's published it can't go back to draft. Asks you first.
- Send a test of a post to addresses you choose
- Enrol a subscriber in one of your automations, which sends them real emails. Asks you first.
Anything marked Asks you first pauses and waits for you to confirm before it runs.
What Sam can't do in beehiiv yet
- Create or edit your beehiiv automations. Sam can enrol people in the ones you've built.
Connect beehiiv
- →A beehiiv publication. beehiiv only lets Enterprise plans create posts through its API, and that feature is still in beta. On other plans Sam can manage subscribers and report, but not draft posts.
Step 1 - Create an API key in beehiiv
- In beehiiv, go to Settings > API, under the API v2 heading.
- Create an API key and copy it.
- Copy your Publication ID too. It starts with pub_.
Step 2 - Open the integrations marketplace
Select Connect your tools at the bottom of the left sidebar, above your profile. Search for beehiiv or find it under Browse Integrations.
Step 3 - Paste it in and connect
Select beehiiv, paste what you copied into the fields Sam shows, and select Connect. Once it succeeds, it moves to your Connected tab.
Paste the key into API Key and the ID into Publication ID.
When you connect, you may see a screen of checkboxes, and some are easy to scroll past. Sam can only do what you allow. If you untick one, the matching actions in the list above will fail with a permission error.
If Sam says it can't reach beehiiv later on, see When Sam can't reach one of your tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will Sam email my list without asking?
No. Posts are created as drafts, and publishing one always stops and asks you to confirm. Sam can send a test to your own address first.
Why can't Sam create posts in my beehiiv account?
beehiiv only lets Enterprise plans create posts through its API, and the feature is still in beta. If you're on another plan, Sam writes the post in Sam and you paste it into beehiiv.
I have more than one publication. Which one does Sam use?
The one whose Publication ID you entered. Add another connection for each extra publication.