Features
As you would expect NewsWorx has many features to help you with marketing to your email list. We have listed the features that we think are important and set as apart from our competitors.
General Features
- CAN-SPAM compliant email marketing software
- Forgot password option
- Built in templates (easy to add more)
- Reminder about cron setup. If it's switched on it will show a message telling you it has been switched on, that message will disappear once a job runs successfully.
- See when a cron job will run. It will count down and give you an idea of when the next send will go out.
- Remember login details
- Built in tutorials
- context-sensitive help / tutorials
- Bulk changes to list subscribers (change all to html/text, make them active/inactive)
- Copy lists
- Merge multiple lists into one list
- Save reply-to, bounce-address, bounce account information with a list
- Automatic bounce processing if account information is available
- Bounce processing differentiates between types (hard, soft). NewsWorx detects a hard bounce and sets the status of the subscriber to bounced and never emails them again. NewsWorx detects a soft bounce but does not change the status of the subscribe until a soft bounce has occurred 5 times on that same subscriber. Once an email has soft bounced 5 times, it is treated as a hard bounce.
- Associated with a mailing list not with a user (means sharing a list between user will show custom fields correctly)
- Can be associated with multiple lists at once
- New "radio button" type
- Better data checking when importing/subscribing
- Search all of your lists at once
- Option to bypass filtering step
- Bulk changes (delete multiple at once, change them to html/text)
- Save different stages of subscribe. Eg subscribe request (time + ip address), subscribe confirm (time + ip address)
- Save different stages of unsubscribe. Eg unsubscribe request (time + ip address), unsubscribe confirm (time + ip address)
- Only show custom fields associated with the list a subscriber is on
- New "bounce" and "unsubscribe" status
- Import subscribe date
- Handle quotes around field names properly
- Much better reporting about import results (see duplicates, problems with data etc)
- Option to add subscribers to any autoresponders the list has
- Global ban list (bans across all lists)
- Upload a file of email addresses to ban
- Bulk actions (make multiple newsletters active/inactive at once)
- Better attachment handling
- Save/Save and Exit buttons (can save as you are going)
- No need to refresh to upload a file or import from a url
- Check and warn about missing unsubscribe links
- Archives are an rss feed so easily changed and easily ported to an external website
- Choose whether to archive per newsletter
- Can send to multiple lists at once (removes duplicates before it starts)
- A send through the popup can be paused, cron turned on, it will pick it up and continue the send and vice-versa
- Cron sending will create the queue just before it starts (so if you schedule in advance, new subscribers will be picked up and any unsubscribes will be removed before starting the process)
- Can embed images into an email
- Change character set / encoding for each send
- Pick up "broken" or interrupted mailings
- Auto-optimizing of sends (database is automatically optimized before and after a send)
- Admin and user get notified if a user goes over per-month of max-emails limits
- Bulk actions (make multiple autoresponders active/inactive at once)
- Save/Save and Exit buttons (can save as you are going)
- No need to refresh to upload a file or import from a url
- Option to add existing subscribers to the autoresponder
- Can embed images into an email
- Better attachment handling
- Check and warn about missing unsubscribe links
- Only show custom fields associated with the autoresponders mailing list. Don't let a user include custom fields that aren't associated with the list
- Send-to-friend form (with appropriate stats)
- use appropriate smtp server details that are set (ie will pick up general settings or user settings)
- can send text and html parts of confirm/thanks emails
- modify details and send-to-friend can be customised within NewsWorx (still can't go on a website though)
- option to show/hide subscriber format choice
- Show more information (how many sent, how long it took, unique opens)
- Show open stats, link stats, bounce stats, forwarding stats, unsubscribe stats per newsletter or autoresponder
- Show trends in subscribes/unsubscribes per mailing list
- Show trends per user for their send history
- Show per domain information per mailing list (eg 50% are yahoo subscribers)