Verify Zoom webinar registrants before syncing to Mailchimp
Screen Zoom webinar registration emails through ValidReach before adding attendees to a Mailchimp audience and triggering reminder sequences.
Starts when: New Zoom webinar registrant created.
Steps
1. Zoom registrant created (trigger)
Read registrant email, first_name, and webinar topic.
2. Verify address with ValidReach (http)
POST the registrant email to /api/v1/verify/single.
3. Branch on verification status (branch)
Separate deliverable attendees from invalid/disposable signups.
4. Add subscribed member to Mailchimp audience (action)
Upsert the contact in Mailchimp with a webinar-verified tag.
5. Exclude from Mailchimp marketing audience (action)
Do not import invalid or disposable addresses into your billed Mailchimp audience.
Connections
- Zoom registrant created → Verify address with ValidReach
- Verify address with ValidReach → Branch on verification status
- Branch on verification status → Add subscribed member to Mailchimp audience (valid)
- Branch on verification status → Exclude from Mailchimp marketing audience (invalid, disposable, catchall, role, unknown)
Credentials you provide
- ValidReach API key
YOUR_API_KEY: Create it under Settings → API keys and store it in your automation tool’s secret storage. - Zoom & Mailchimp connection
CONNECT_YOUR_OWN_ACCOUNT: Connect your Zoom webinar account and Mailchimp audience credentials.
Sample
POST https://validreach.dev/api/v1/verify/single
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json
{"email":"user@example.com"}{
"success": true,
"data": {
"email": "user@example.com",
"status": "valid",
"is_deliverable": true,
"reason": "accepted_email",
"credits_used": 1,
"retryable": false
}
}Before you run it
Event registrations often attract disposable addresses; filtering them before Mailchimp sync prevents both bounce spikes and unnecessary subscriber tier upgrades.
Verification status. Schema: checked in unit tests. Import: not tested on any platform. Sandbox run: not run. The download is this ValidReach definition, not an importable file for an automation platform.