We are pleased to announce some awsome new featuers and improvements to our EZ Auto Mailer addon.
We have added support for:
- abandoned carts
- added optional unsubscribe capabilities
- added a template previewer that is separate from the queued email previewer
- added support for on-site reviews of all products and site testimonials on a single page
- added logos and company info to the header of each template.
- fixed several small defects
Abandoned carts are now supported and you can define the time of inactivity within each event. You can then send a different template based on how long the cart has been abandoned.
When you run the queue (automatically from cron or on login or manually) any events setup for abandoned carts are processed; and any triggered Abandoned Cart events are sent immediately. Abandoned carts can have separate templates for different times (different events). I.e. you can have a basic template setup for 4hrs of inactivity and a different one (maybe offering a discount) for carts that are more than 1 day old. One email will be sent per time period and will not repeat or be duplicated.
We now support unsubscribe. An opt-out can optionally be provided in the user's profile as well as the checkout page. You can also optionally determine whether to include an unsubscribe link in the emails (default is to include). When an unsubscribe link is clicked in an email, the customer is taken to a page on the site where they confirm that they want to unsubscribe. If they are already unsubscribed, they can resubscribe via the same link.
A new on-site review template has a single star-rating that will take the customer to your site and will become the default rating for any products or testimonial being submitted. The customer can rate all products they purchased where discussions are active as well as add a testimonial (if testimonials are active). Each product/testimonial can have a separate rating and a separate message. We have deprecated the old form-based review template since many email clients didn't handle it properly.
Distributed templates now include company logos and contact info in the headers.
All templates can be previewed from the manage page if there are any items queued or sent of that event type.
We think these are significant improvements to our most popular addon.
As usual, existing customers will be updated automatically in the next couple of days. If you want to upgrade immediately, simply use the ?dispatch=auto_mail.upgrade.force admin URI and it will apply the new changes. The new version number is 4.7.53. The addon is compatible with all V4 releases.
Just a quick reminder... If you have modified the distributed templates and want to preserve your changes, please copy them to new names and change your event details to use the new names. Otherwise the distributed templates will be overwritten with the upgrade.
We have rewritten the documentation. It is located at: https://ez-ms.com/docs/auto_mail.pdf
The documentation contains several screenshots which will help you see how this addon is structured and how configurable it is.
If you're new to our EZ Auto Mailer product, the product detail page is located here: https://ez-ms.com/auto-mail.html
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.