I just purchased Acymailer Enterprise and have installed it and done some configuration. I have tested the mailing and received the test mail so the absolute basics and setup are good.

Here is where I am lost. It has "Lists", "Newsletters" and "Campaigns". I want to have a basic campaign that will be offered on a landing page, for signup to Joomla (welcome campaing will be automatic on signup) they will get a first newsletter with a discount coupon using Virtuemart.

Do I need to setup a "list" to tie the campaign to a list? The campaign will have two newsletters, one with zero delay and a followup with 3 days delay. They will go to all new signups ONCE and that is it. After that the user will only receive other newsletters.

Do I need to have them do a checkbox when they sign up for the site in order to receive the welcome newsletter or can it be automatic with signup?

I have the Virtuemart plugin and that seems simple enough so no issues there. However, when I was looking through the docs for setting up a campaign I found the default html. I tried switching the default for the rounded one but nothing changes. How do I change that?

And, I noticed in the sample html newsletter that it uses subtags to insert a name. I can find no list of subtags that can be used. Can someone please point out where I can get a list of the available subtags?

I think I understand what a campaign is but I don't understand the relationship between lists, newsletters and campaigns. What if I just want to manually send out a newsletter occasionally, does that mean I have to setup a campaign or do I just need to setup the newsletter and add it to a list?

Mike

Hello,

I recommend you to have a look at this 5 Minutes video tutorial which will explain the standard Newsletter in AcyMailing (so you will see the template change, the tags...):
www.acyba.com/videos/create_send_newsletter.html

On top of that you can create follow-up campaigns which can be attached to one or several lists so when the user subscribes to your list, the campaign will be triggered for this user.
The central element in AcyMailing is the "list". You can attach campaigns to your lists, you can send Newsletter to your lists, you can create auto-Newsletters for your lists...


Yes. You have to create a list (or use the default one we created during install) and then you will be able to attach your campaign to that list.
www.acyba.com/en/support/documentation/1...ailing-campaign.html
You will then be able to e-mail your users by sending Newsletters directly to your list.


It can be automatic if you configure this plugin to automatically subscribe the user to your list during the Joomla registration:
www.acyba.com/en/support/documentation/1...n-regacymailing.html


You just have to create a Newsletter and send it to one or more lists.

Hello John,

Thank you for the link to the video, that was helpful and I believe that I'm getting a handle on this bit by bit. But I have one problem. I can see the place to change the template under the "Newsletters" area, but when I go to "Campaigns" I have setup a campaign which will be two maillouts to new users one time only, and in that area the default template is showing and there is no place to select another template.

Do I need to delete the campaign and then start over now that I've switched the default template to the rounded template?

Mike

Ok, I have gone back and looked at my campaign area. In the campaign followups the template icon at the top that shows in the docs is NOT on my page. Do I need to also create the follow up newsletters in the newsletter area?

I have to admit that I'm getting a little discouraged here. I have printed out the docs, read what you linked to above but I'm obviously missing something since my page does not look like the one in the docs since I have no template icon and I'm getting nowhere fast at this point. I'm just stumped.

Mike

The template icon is only displayed when you create a new e-mail (a follow-up or a Newsletter), not when you edit an existing one.
Please create a new follow-up so you can choose an other template if needed.

This IS a new one that I created, a new campaign and then I created two new followups for the campaign. I will try creating another new campaign and see what happens. Being new to this I might have messed it up.

Mike

Do you see the template button when you create a new Newsletter?
This exact same template button will appear when you create a new follow-up for one of your campaign so you can click on it and select an other template.
Both interfaces are the same (except some options) so if you see the button on the Newsletter interface, you will see the template button on the follow-up interface.

I setup a new campaign and this time I did get the template icon so all is now working as stated in the docs.

I "think" I'm getting a small handle on this as I've been reading the docs and working in the admin area. BTW, this is very nice stuff, useful, well integrated with other extensions and well done.

Mike