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Integrate ChatGPT into the email marketing tool to empower users with AI-driven assistance for creating high-quality, engaging email content. This integration would streamline the content creation process and enable users to craft compelling subject lines, email body copy, and personalized messages effortlessly.Key functionalities:<ol><li>AI Writing Assistant: Generate email subject lines, introductions, and body content tailored to specific campaign goals (e.g., promotions, announcements).</li><li>Personalization Suggestions: Use AI to recommend personalized phrases based on audience segments.</li><li>Grammar and Tone Optimization: Help refine content for grammar, tone, and readability to ensure professional and on-brand communication.</li><li>Idea Generation: Offer creative ideas for email campaigns, such as hooks, calls-to-action, and themes.</li><li>Seamless Integration: Embed directly in the email editor with a user-friendly interface, providing suggestions in real-time.</li></ol>This integration would elevate the email marketing tool's functionality, saving time and enabling users to deliver highly engaging content with minimal effort.

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Integration request: ChatGPT

Jorge Ferreiro

email marketing

A/B testing email campaigns

smart delivery -- send emails to the best time based on user country, and last engagement

Introduce RSS feed integration to allow users to automatically populate email campaigns with content from their RSS feeds. This feature will streamline content updates and simplify the process of creating newsletters, blog digests, or other dynamic email campaigns.As a user, I want to connect an RSS feed to my email campaigns so that new content from my website, blog, or other platforms can automatically appear in my emails. This feature should allow me to customize how the feed items are displayed, ensuring they match my branding and email design.

RSS Feed Integration for Email Campaigns

Integrate WordPress with the email marketing tool to enable users to effortlessly sync and repurpose content from their WordPress websites into email campaigns. This integration would streamline the process of embedding blog posts, landing pages, and other web content directly into email templates.Key functionalities:<ol><li>Content Import: Allow users to import blog posts, pages, or custom post types from WordPress into email campaigns with a single click.</li><li>Dynamic Updates: Enable synchronization to ensure email content reflects the latest updates on the website (e.g., automatically pulling in new blog posts).</li><li>Snippet Selector: Let users select specific sections or snippets of WordPress content to include in emails.</li><li>Media Integration: Seamlessly import images, videos, and media from WordPress to enrich email designs.</li><li>Call-to-Action Links: Automatically generate CTAs linking to the WordPress website for driving traffic and engagement.</li><li>Integration Dashboard: Provide a dashboard for managing connected WordPress sites, with options to select content, set sync preferences, and track performance.</li></ol>This integration would enable users to maintain brand consistency, save time by repurposing content, and increase email engagement by promoting website content effectively.

Integration request: Wordpress

<ul><li>Import contacts to my account</li><li>(optionally) Import templates and automations</li></ul>

Integration request: Shopify

I’d love to be able to download a CSV file of all the users that. unsubscribed from an email campaign or a transactional email. On top, I’d love to be able to tag the contacts that were unsusbcribed because of an email campaign (e.g: manual unsusbcribed or we got a bounced (couldn’t deliver the email to them)<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01934814-ed38-769b-b4c6-a01f054ae090.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

download & tag unsubscribed users

Laura Suarez

Allow to create and embed a countdown widget in the emails so we can tell the users of an important launch.

email editor

countdown widget on emails

Embed a video in the email

This would be so amazing as many Sumolings maxed out their Albato accounts and would highly appreciate a native integration 🙏

Integration with Albato

I want to be able to create forms on my zootools accountIdeally, multiple forms per workspace.(optionally) I’d love to tag contacts who responded in my CRM<ul><li>I also want to embed the form on my website with an SDK</li><li>I also would love to make this work headless, meaning, I can build my own form and use a PUBLIC TOKEN KEY from zootools that only allow to submit responses from my website referrer</li></ul>

Planned

growth

Create & embed forms

<ul><li>Trigger automation based on Stripe Events (payments, failure)</li><li>Import Stripe contacts to my account</li><li>(optionally) Import templates and automation</li></ul>

Integration request: Stripe

Build and deploy a reliable, scalable, and feature-rich Transactional Email API to enable users to send, track, and manage high-quality transactional emails with dynamic content and analytics.<h4>Key Deliverables</h4><ol><li>API Endpoints:<ul><li><code>POST /emails/send</code>: Send transactional emails with dynamic placeholders and template support.</li><li><code>POST /emails/preview</code>: Preview email templates with variable inputs (do not send the email, just return the resolved value.)</li></ul></li><li>Dynamic Templates:<ul><li>Support for reusable templates with placeholders (e.g., <code>{{variableName}}</code>).</li><li>Template versioning for easy updates and testing.</li></ul></li><li>Tracking and Analytics:<ul><li>Delivery status: Queued, sent, failed, bounced, or spam-flagged.</li><li>Open and click tracking.</li><li>Link tracking via URL shortener integration.</li></ul></li><li>Security and Compliance:<ul><li>API authentication using API keys.</li><li>Role-based permissions for team members.</li><li>Ensure GDPR/CCPA compliance for handling user data.</li></ul></li><li>Scalability:<ul><li>Optimize sending for high-volume usage with retry mechanisms and rate limiting.</li><li>Dedicated IP pool options for premium users.</li></ul></li><li>Future Enhancements:<ul><li>Advanced templating (e.g., conditional placeholders).</li><li>Localization for multi-language support.</li><li>Custom tracking domains for improved deliverability and branding.</li></ul></li></ol><h4></h4>

Email API (Transactional emails)

We want to add a way to control the execution of our automations.Basically, limit how many runs can be run per contact<ul><li>MAX_ONE_RUN per contact.</li><li>ANY_TIME</li></ul>Potentially control also the minimum time to allow a new run executed for a contact, like:<ul><li>Minimum has to passed 1h to allow to re-run again. </li></ul>

Limit automations run per contact (e.g: once per contact)

Add an Enrich Contacts feature to enhance contact profiles with additional data, such as job titles, company information, social media profiles, and location. This would help users better segment their audience and personalize email campaigns for higher engagement.Key functionalities:<ol><li>Bulk Enrichment: Enrich entire contact lists in one action.</li><li>Real-time Enrichment: Automatically enrich newly added contacts.</li><li>Customizable Fields: Allow users to choose which data points to enrich (e.g., LinkedIn, Twitter, company, etc.).</li><li>Integration with CRM: Sync enriched data with existing CRMs or export to CSV.</li><li>Enrichment Insights: Show detailed stats on enriched fields and provide actionable recommendations for segmentation.</li></ol>4o

Enrich contact with Job Title, Company Data, Funding and more

add a new trigger to our automations:<ul><li>When a user adds or remove a new tag property</li><li>The automations should start</li></ul>

Trigger automations on tags changes

Introduce advanced marketing automation features that allow users to create and manage drip campaigns, including adding delays, conditional triggers, and personalized actions, to nurture leads and engage customers effectively.Description: As a user of the email marketing product, I want to automate the sending of email sequences with customizable workflows. This feature would allow me to build drip campaigns with various steps, delays, and triggers based on recipient behavior, ensuring timely and personalized engagement with my audience.Key Features:<ol><li>Drip Campaign Builder:<ul><li>Visual workflow editor to design automated sequences.</li><li>Drag-and-drop interface for adding steps and configuring actions.</li><li>Prebuilt templates for common use cases (e.g., onboarding, re-engagement, abandoned cart).</li></ul></li><li>Delays and Scheduling:<ul><li>Add time delays between email steps (e.g., "Send email 2 days after previous email").</li><li>Schedule emails to send at optimal times based on recipient time zones or activity.</li></ul></li><li>Behavioral Triggers:<ul><li>Trigger specific emails based on recipient actions, such as:<ul><li>Email opens</li><li>Link clicks</li><li>Form submissions</li></ul></li><li>Support for AND/OR conditions for more complex workflows.</li></ul></li><li>Dynamic Personalization:<ul><li>Use merge tags or dynamic content blocks to tailor messages to recipients.</li><li>Include options for conditional logic to send tailored emails (e.g., “If clicked link A, send follow-up X; if not, send follow-up Y”).</li></ul></li><li>Actions Beyond Email:<ul><li>Add non-email actions like tagging contacts, updating CRM fields, or sending webhook notifications.</li></ul></li><li>Real-time Metrics and Analytics:<ul><li>Visualize campaign performance (e.g., open rates, click rates, drop-off points).</li><li>See where recipients are in the workflow and adjust steps dynamically.</li></ul></li></ol>

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Advanced Marketing Automations for Email Campaigns

<ul class="tight" data-tight="true"><li>I want to have the ability to select who should receive my emails (by tags, contact IDs)</li></ul>Places this should be used:<ul class="tight" data-tight="true"><li>Send marketing emails</li><li>Import a CSV</li></ul>

Segment and tag my contacts

<ul><li>Push events from zootools to zapier (like contact created)</li><li>Allow to send emails from Zapier using ZooTools transactional API</li></ul>

Integration request: Zapier

<ul><li> I want to import all my Mailchimp contacts into Zootools easily</li><li>additionally, I want to also import my templates and any other assets </li></ul>

Integration request: Mailchimp

instead of using the smashsend default one, we should allow our customers to bring their own custom tracking domain link, same as we have for our sending email.

custom link tracking domains to boost deliverability

Allow to create single value and multi-values properties on our contacts:<ul><li>tags</li><li>single select</li></ul>the user should be able to assign labels, colors, etc

Tagging and multi-values properties

I want to be able to use Pabbly to automate stuff with SMASHSEND.<ul><li>contacts management (create, update, delete, list, search)</li><li>triggers (new contact, contact updated, etc).</li></ul>

Pabbly Integration

add an image with a linbk for users to click for merch or other items

anchored image links

Andrew Vaughan

I want to be able to send an email campaign in any time in the future I need

Allow to schedule a campaign in the future

I want to be able to see my email analytics in almost real time (right now it’s around 24h processing time)On top, I want to being able to clearly see the following analytics<ul><li>Delivery</li><li>Link clicks</li><li>Heatmap</li><li>Unsubscribes</li></ul>