Grow your beehiiv newsletter from the stage and the mic.
Say a keyword on your podcast or put a QR code on your slide. People text in, reply with their email, and they’re subscribed to your beehiiv newsletter.
14-day free trial. Connects to beehiiv through Zapier.
At your event
LETTER
Want the slides? What’s your email?
omar.f@proton.me
Added to beehiiv
Through Zapier · Source: conference panel
Event sign-ups that make it into beehiiv
A clipboard has to be typed up later, and a web form on a phone loses people before they tap submit. With Textiful, the whole sign-up happens in a text.
Made for writers who speak
Every talk, panel, and podcast appearance becomes a chance to grow your newsletter, with the event recorded on each subscriber.
A keyword or a QR code
Say “text DEMO to 33777” from the front of the room, or put a QR code where people can scan it. Either one starts your capture flow.
Give them a reason to sign up
Send your slides, a guide, or a discount in the same flow with handouts.
Connect it with Zapier
- 1
Start with Textiful
In Zapier, create a Zap. Choose Textiful as the trigger app and New Contact as the trigger, then sign in to Textiful.
- 2
Pick your flow
Choose the capture flow to watch. Finish the flow once from your own phone, then test the trigger so Zapier has a sample.
- 3
Add beehiiv
Choose beehiiv and the Create a Subscriber action. Map email, and set the UTM source or campaign to the event name.
- 4
Turn it on
From then on, everyone who finishes the flow becomes a subscriber in beehiiv.
See Textiful + beehiiv on Zapier, or read the Zapier setup guide.
The beehiiv action to use
Your Zap has two steps: Textiful’s New Contact trigger, then beehiiv’s Create a Subscriber action. Here’s every field Zapier shows for that action, and what to put in each one.
1. Trigger
Textiful: New Contact
Runs when someone finishes the capture flow you pick.
- Campaign NameRequiredYour capture flow
Always sent
Email, First name, Last name, Mobile number, Keyword (empty for a QR code scan), Number texted, Flow name and ID, Time they finished
Sent when your flow asks
Zip, City, State, Time zone, Company, Birthdate and age, Your custom fields, Poll answers
Each answer arrives as its own field you can map.
2. Action
beehiiv: Create a Subscriber
Creates a subscriber in your beehiiv account.
| Field in Zapier | What to put here |
|---|---|
| PublicationsRequired | Choose in Zapier |
| EmailRequired | |
| UTM Source | Keyword or flow name |
| UTM Medium | Type “text” or “qr” |
| UTM Campaign | Flow name |
| Newsletter List | Choose in Zapier |
| Automation IDs | Choose in Zapier |
| Stripe Customer ID | Choose in Zapier |
| Tier | Optional |
| Premium Tiers | Optional |
| Reactivate existing? | Your choice |
| Send Welcome Email | Your choice |
| Referring Site | Optional |
| Referral Code | Optional |
2 more optional fields. Field names as listed on Zapier, checked November 2026.
Questions people ask
Yes. Each Zap watches one flow, so give each event its own flow and Zap. Set the UTM campaign to the event, so beehiiv shows which event each subscriber came from.
Zapier’s Create a Subscriber action has no update option, so beehiiv decides what happens to a repeat sign-up. Add a find step before it in your Zap if you want to match existing people first.
No. The short codes 33777 and 55444 work in the US only, and QR codes text those same numbers, so Textiful is for audiences in the US.
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- ActiveCampaignTag event leads and start ActiveCampaign automations (built in)
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- All integrations
Grow your beehiiv list at your next event.
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