We have a "latest news" newsletter that gets sent out to people who subscribe to it.
People subscribe via a form on the website and their details are stored in a custom table in the umbraco database. The newsletters then take the latest news added to the site and sent it in the email.
Right now it is rather clunky the way we do it and this looks like it would be a more elegant solution. I have a few questions though.
1.Can a custom table be used as a mailing list.
2. Can subscibers register directly to a mailing list i.e. enter their details into a form on the site and they are registered as a subscriber to a particular mailing list.
3. Can you include data from documents in the newsletter. Our news is a News Article type and we'd like to include the headline and brief summary of the stories added since the last mailing in the newsletter. Could we?
4. Can you have a plain text and html version of the newsletter?
First, thank you very much for trying the package!
1. No, at the moment the product has it's own custom tables or uses the umbraco members. But it would be very easy to import your emails into newsletter studio. In the future we're thinking about implementing some kind of data providers, that would allow you to use any kind of datasource as a mailing list - but thats some moths from now.
2. Yes, the package includes a very easy API and ships with a Razor-macro that adds new subscribers to a given mailing list.
3. In the current version it's not possible but we're shipping a new version in about 2 weeks that will support this.
4. Not right now. It's only a html-version that will be sent. But we are looking at a good solution - I can't say when and if that will be included.
Wondering if this would work for my scenario
We have a "latest news" newsletter that gets sent out to people who subscribe to it.
People subscribe via a form on the website and their details are stored in a custom table in the umbraco database. The newsletters then take the latest news added to the site and sent it in the email.
Right now it is rather clunky the way we do it and this looks like it would be a more elegant solution. I have a few questions though.
1.Can a custom table be used as a mailing list.
2. Can subscibers register directly to a mailing list i.e. enter their details into a form on the site and they are registered as a subscriber to a particular mailing list.
3. Can you include data from documents in the newsletter. Our news is a News Article type and we'd like to include the headline and brief summary of the stories added since the last mailing in the newsletter. Could we?
4. Can you have a plain text and html version of the newsletter?
Hi!
First, thank you very much for trying the package!
1. No, at the moment the product has it's own custom tables or uses the umbraco members. But it would be very easy to import your emails into newsletter studio. In the future we're thinking about implementing some kind of data providers, that would allow you to use any kind of datasource as a mailing list - but thats some moths from now.
2. Yes, the package includes a very easy API and ships with a Razor-macro that adds new subscribers to a given mailing list.
3. In the current version it's not possible but we're shipping a new version in about 2 weeks that will support this.
4. Not right now. It's only a html-version that will be sent. But we are looking at a good solution - I can't say when and if that will be included.
// Markus
Thanks Markus.
It looks like it will work for at least one of our newsletters and hopefully the next release will work for the other one.
No props!
If there is anything that you are missing please let us know and we'll look into that. I'll keep you posted about the update!
// Markus
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