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It's Tuesday release day! Here's what's new in PostBeagle

· 3 min read
PostBeagle Team
PostBeagle Team
Email Marketing Experts

Grab a coffee (or a second one, we don't judge). It's Tuesday, which means it's release day, and the beagle has been busy this week.

Send it slowly, on purpose​

Sometimes you don't want your whole list to get your email in the same five minutes. Maybe your store gets a little wobbly when everyone shows up at once. Maybe you'd rather Gmail didn't see a sudden wall of mail from you.

So now there's gradual sending. At the send step, pick "Gradual sending" and PostBeagle spreads the campaign out over anything from 30 minutes to 24 hours. Bigger lists get longer windows, because spreading 200 emails over a whole day is less "gentle" and more "forgot to hit send." It's on every plan, free included.

The "How it's delivered" choice at PostBeagle's send step, with Gradual sending picked and the send spread over 4 hours

UTM tags, without the copy-paste​

If you've ever hand-tagged forty links in one newsletter, this one's for you. Flip on Add UTM parameters to links in campaign settings and every link gets tagged when the email goes out, so your analytics finally knows where those visitors came from. The defaults are sensible, you can change any of them, and links you already tagged yourself are left alone.

The "Add UTM parameters to links" setting turned on, with postbeagle, email and black-friday filled in as defaults

WooCommerce coupons that don't clutter your store​

Unique coupon codes used to mean one coupon in your WooCommerce store for every single person on the list, whether they ever used it or not. Send to 20,000 people and your coupon page looked like a very boring phone book.

Now everyone still gets their own code, but the coupon is only created when someone actually uses it at checkout. And a code only works for the person it was sent to, so it won't end up on a coupon site by lunchtime. Update the plugin to 1.9.0 to get it.

70 new templates (yes, seventy)​

We added 70 new photo templates: newsletters, welcomes, sales, seasonal stuff, events and more. Every part of them is a normal editable block, so nothing is locked in place. The branded templates got rebuilt too, and they now dress themselves in your brand kit: your logo, your colors, your fonts. Very fashionable.

A few of the new seasonal templates in PostBeagle's template gallery: a holiday gift guide, a Valentine's Day email and a year-in-review

And a few small things​

  • Before a campaign goes out from a new domain, we now make sure its DKIM key is really live, so nothing gets sent unsigned.
  • Test sends tell you why they were stopped, and which addresses got skipped.
  • The unsubscribe page got a makeover. Nobody wants to see it, but now it looks nice.
  • On phones, the support chat bubble stopped sitting on top of your buttons. Find it under "Chat with support" in the menu.
  • Changing your password now signs you out everywhere else.

Psst: we have an affiliate program now​

If you like PostBeagle enough to tell a friend, you can now get paid for it. Our affiliate program pays 30% of every payment your referrals make, for as long as they keep paying.

That's it for this week. Happy sending, and see you next Tuesday! 🐶