Hi All
Does CS have the ability to mass mail registered customers or have an add-on / plug in to a company such as mailchimp?
Thanks
Mark
There is a Newsletter feature under the Content tab in Admin. Itis certainly not as full-deatured as Mail Chimp but might meet your needs.
Bob
Cheers bob
Will take a look, does it offer an unsubscribe option?
Mark
Yes, you can add an unsubscribe link to the newsletters.
Bob
I host with siteground - and they only allow 400 emails / hour
So I can’t use the newsletter system from cs-cart
Anybody have a way to fix this? by slowing it down by some delays for example?
I can / could live with the fact that it will take some hours to send all newsletters…
Florian
Florian,
A good point.
I have decided to start a newsletter and go with a 3rd party software - not a service.
This way you can slow - stop start etc
I am looking at two packages:
Interspire email marketing - expensive but has everything and I will probably buy this next week.
Or another Neuvomail which is less expensive but still good software in terms of what it can do.
CS Cart is a good shopping cart but it can’t be all things to all people…
Traveler,
True… well, actually it’s not a cs-cart problem - it’s rather a limitation from my hosting supplier…
But the only solution I see right now (in case I want to use the cs-cart mailing system for more than 400 customers…) is to create a delay somewhere in the code - to avoid reaching the limit of my hosting company - I wonder why noone else have ever posted this issue - especially since cs-cart recommends that hosting company.
Let’s wait a while, maybe someone had the same / similar issue and found a solution…
Thanks to you anyway
Florian
[quote name=‘florian’]Traveler,
True… well, actually it’s not a cs-cart problem - it’s rather a limitation from my hosting supplier…
But the only solution I see right now (in case I want to use the cs-cart mailing system for more than 400 customers…) is to create a delay somewhere in the code - to avoid reaching the limit of my hosting company - I wonder why noone else have ever posted this issue - especially since cs-cart recommends that hosting company.
Let’s wait a while, maybe someone had the same / similar issue and found a solution…
Thanks to you anywayFlorian[/QUOTE]
No its not a CS cart bug but it is a limitation and I do not expect them to be a full email marketing company - but I am looking to work quite a bit with newsletters.
I am not sure that it will slow it down enough, but you can try the following.
Set “Newsletters sent per step” to ‘1’ in the News & emails options under Administration->Addons. It will send to one address every 10 seconds or so.
Bob
Thank you jobosales !
That option might really do the job 
should be 360 emails per hour or less this way, just within limits.
However - I do have the second problem now 
after some testing I had to find out that cs-cart sends every newsletter twice (this happens when I use the " Send to test email " :oops:
No idea why it does that - I tried different setups, with SMTP and phpmail - always the same, one email is with content the other one just blank - anyone the same / similar problem?
Florian
Have a look at Atomic Mail Sender - [url]http://www.amailsender.com/[/url]
You only have to pay a one-off fee and you can run it from your local computer. I suppose you could integrate it with CS-Cart somehow but I just copy my subscriber list. I switched to this because the CS-Cart newsletter function wasn’t coping with the amount of subscribers I have.
You can also pay a small amount per month and track your campaigns.
[quote name=‘florian’]However - I do have the second problem now after some testing I had to find out that cs-cart sends every newsletter twice (this happens when I use the " Send to test email " :oops:
No idea why it does that - I tried different setups, with SMTP and phpmail - always the same, one email is with content the other one just blank - anyone the same / similar problem?[/QUOTE]
When you send a test newsletter, it sends both the plain text and HTML version of the newsletter. A customer can only signup for one version of the letter so you should be okay.
Bob