Any way to automatically add a customer who buys a product to a specific mailing list?

Hi, I'll be selling a workshop to a (hopefully) large number of people. I'd like to automate the fact that whenever someone buys the workshop via my Squarespace website, as in the purchasing process I ask them for their name and email, they get automatically added to a specific mailing list I could call "Workshop Participants" so that I can send that specific group an email pre and post workshop. 

Is there any way to do that? 

Thanks!

5 hours ago, zurdyoz said:

I'd like to automate the fact that whenever someone buys the workshop via my Squarespace website...they get automatically added to a specific mailing list

You can use customer activity automations to send emails to customers after they purchase a specific product. For more information, see Sending automated campaigns.

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Thanks Paul, yes, I'm already using that function. What I needed was an automation that fed customers of a specific product to a specific mailing list so I could send them targeted emails. 

As far as I've been able to figure out, you have to manually export & download your orders, format it into a CSV, upload the list as a new mailing list, and repeat before sending any new email to that list to catch any new orders/customers. 

Squarespace does automatically create a new mailing list for any subscription product...or maybe only for members spaces...I don't recall exactly, but when I experimented with a subscription member space, it automatically created a mailing list for that group. So the functionality is in the system, but not currently able to be tied to a specific product purchase that is not a subscription.

I know coding this stuff is so much more difficult than us end-users realize. And this has been an issue for years and is really getting to be a dealbreaker between sticking with squarespace's all-in-one simplicity and switching to a separate email management system that can automate segmentation, etc. The current functionality is really lacking for online course creators.