How are you folks sending non newsletter and transactional emails

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What I really mean is that apart from the standard signup/signin and newsletter emails, how can I send other emails?

For e.g. If a subscriber is not opening my emails, how can I trigger an email to recheck his/her interest?

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I have free subscribers and I want to send them an email (without having to write a post for this) to consider moving to paid subscription.

Do not really want to use another mail service front end (like mailchimp etc.) to send these mails.

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Hi Jack, there are two ways to do this without hooking up to a second mailing service.

  1. use a hidden tag and routes in your yaml file to write posts that you filter out of your main indexes - they will still have urls but won’t show up on the front page and if you do the work you can keep them out of other places as well (recommended content, author pages, most recent, etc).

Dan Rowden’s Patron and Substack themes support this, and I believe that the Nikko theme does as well.

  1. You could look at my company Outpost which adds some extra features on top of Ghost, including the ability to write particular groups of readers completely outside of Ghost
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We’re not. Its a disaster. For such an amazing product , email functionality and customization is horrible. Have to use stripe to send them emails like that rather than use the third-party that allows us to fully customize things I tried to find a way to use SendinBlue for a month and couldn’t figure it out so I’m just stuck with what they offer. Their mods literally just put out a tutorial to have everyone use Zapier for email automation which to me is sloppy and unacceptable as it would require a million zaps. Talking about transactional but I just had to vent on the situation.

I can tell you this however if you guys would change your billing and allow for monthly payments for the Teir that everyone basically would need to use outpost you would get hundreds if not thousands of new customers very quickly or at the very least offer a 30 day trial period for that billing for yearly payment only. There’s just not a lot of information or documentation about outpost for us just to spend 300 and some dollars hoping things work.

I can speak for me and about five other ghost users who would become new customers at the moment you guys gave that opportunity for payment monthly for the second tier or a trial period for the that tier where we can put in our credit card information but if we cancel within 30 or 60 days we are not charged if we cancel. Because if it works we don’t care what the hell you charge us if it works like you all say. Because this is the 1 area where Ghost is a pain.

I’ll just very confused on how it could possibly were when we seen a built-in integration inside that goes platform for us that are techniques or coders it’s confusing to us to see how it could possibly work the way its advertised. Youtube vids at the ver least would be great.

I think for why there’s this massive void with him this amazing platform is that they have to be working on their own proprietary internal something and they’re wanting to charge for it when it’s released because it just doesn’t make sense as to why we are so limited for this very important if not the most important aspect of a membership website. Also I say this because I saw one of Churnkeys executives write to Ghost Admins on this forum not once but twice telling them you have their customers are ghost customers as well and are looking for an integration and so they were messaging on the forum wanting to speak to someone at ghost about making this happen and they were just flat out ignored and not once but twice! Which makes me think that they are going drop their own Product soon.