I just launched paid subscription tiers on my blog, and would love to be able to send them an email. This seems obvious, but I want to make the case.
The current setup that Ghost seems to promote involves a static welcome page. I’m sure this is fine for some use cases, but for me, I’m using the welcome page or email to provide an invite link to a discord server, and if my users miss it, IE close the tab before realizing the link is there, they won’t really have any way to get back to the link. Generally, I close tabs about a thousand times a day, but really never delete emails.
Aaand I think a welcome email might just feel more… welcoming.
The alternative is to use the API to plug into an external mailing service + a service like zapier to send emails automatically… but the problems with that are obvious: it’s unnecessarily complicated and requires paying multiple parties. It’s not accessible for Ghost Pro Basic users, since it requires API keys. Simplifying this would be extremely convenient and, I would imagine, easy.