Birthday Newsletter

This plugin enables you to send a birthday Newsletter to your users.

This plugin is available in all our commercial versions (you must have AcyMailing 1.3.0 or  a more recent version) and you will be able to handle a birthday Newsletter for:

• AcyMailing Enteprise (if you create a custom field to handle the birthdate)
• Community Builder
• ExtendedReg
• FireBoard
• jSocialSuite
• jomSocial
• Kunena
• Mighty Registration
• VirtueMart

• Download and install the plugin
• Create your birthday Newsletter
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • I'm using the free version and just want the birthday plugin, how can I do that?
  • I record the user birthday with an other Joomla component, can I use your birthday plugin for that?
  • I use VirtueMart and sometimes the birthday plugin does not queue the message, why?
  • In testing mode the birthday Newsletter is added to the queue properly but it's never sent, why?

Download and install the plugin

This plugin can be downloaded from our download area if you are logged in and you purchased at least one commercial version of AcyMailing.

To install the plugin, log in on the back-end of your website and click on the menu Extension -> Install/Uninstall

Browse the plugin and click on the button Upload File & Install

Create your birthday Newsletter

• First, create a Newsletter via AcyMailing.
  • This Newsletter should be published
  • You don't have to make it visible (and we don't recommend you to make it visible)
  • If you want to include an unsubscribe link in your Birthday Newsletter, please attach your Newsletter to the lists you want the user to be unsubscribed from if he clicks on the unsubscribe link. If you don't attach this Newsletter to any list, the user won't be able to select the option "unsubscribe from this list" when trying to unsubscribe but he will still be able to select the options "Unsubscribe from all lists" or "I don't want to receive e-mails from this website any more".
  • Don't send this Newsletter! You can send a test via the preview screen but don't handle a real send process with this Newsletter.
• Then click on the menu AcyMailing -> Configuration
• Click on the tab Plugins and click on the plugin AcyMailing Birthday feature to edit it.
  
  






• Select your Birthday Newsletter
  Only Newsletters which have never been sent will be displayed on the e-mail selection field so if you sent your birthday Newsletter via the send process, please create a new Newsletter.
• Send at: Time of the day the birthday Newsletter will be sent to your users
• Number of days before the birthday: You can specify a number of days in this field so AcyMailing will send the message X days before the birthday.
• Birthday table: Select the table on which you added your birthday field.
• Birthday field: Specify the name of your birthday field (the one you created to handle the user birthdate).
  You don't have specify any value in this field if you use jSocialSuite, jomSocial or Kunena.
• Then click on the button Apply
• Once you saved the configuration, click on the Test button to test your plugin.
• AcyMailing will add your birthday Newsletter in the queue two days before the real send date so if you click on the test button, you should see in your AcyMailing queue messages which will be sent in two days.
  Example: If you want the Newsletter to be sent 3 days before the user birthday, please enter the number 3 in the field Number of days before the birthday.
  If you click on the test button, AcyMailing will look at users with a birthday in 5 days (3+2) and immediately add e-mails in the queue which will be sent in 2 days, so 3 days before the user birthday.
  Example: If you want the Newsletter to be sent the day of the birthday, then enter 0 in the field Number of days before the birthday.
  If you click on the test button, AcyMailing will look at users with a birthday in 2 days and add e-mails in the queue which will be sent in 2 days, so at the birthday.
• Once you tested your Newsletter, don't forget to enable the plugin and AcyMailing will do the job automatically!
• This plugin requires a cron task and will be automatically triggered once a day to add your birthday Newsletter in the queue.