Now you can keep on top of CakeMail’s feature releases and bug fixes as they happen. Our Release Notes page has been around for a little while, but until today you had to remember to go and check in to see what we’ve been adding or fixing in the CakeMail app. We’ve just added an RSS feed to this page so you can subscribe directly in your favourite RSS Reader and automatically know that updates have occurred. You can also view the RSS feed directly on our support site!

Subscribe today: Release Notes RSS Feed

This new Upgrade URL will send your clients to a custom page that is created and hosted by you – it is up to you what you include in it. We recommend that at a minimum, you include pricing information and upgrade instructions or contact info. This new feature will allow your users to see upgrade options and easily access your pricing information.

Once you receive the user’s request, you can adjust their limits by hovering over their account name under your Clients tab and clicking on Edit account limits.

To set your Upgrade URL, go to your Settings tab > Your Site Settings > Upgrade URL

Enter the URL you wish your clients to be redirected to.

The notice will look like this:

All available add-ons will appear in the Marketplace tab. If the add-on has yet to be installed, click on Manage next to an add-on. You will see the following pop up window asking you to install the application.

To complete the installation, click on Install this Add-On

Once this add-on is enabled simply create a new campaign and select the Google Analytics option from the external analytics drop-down menu in the Campaign Wizard. Once checked, all of your campaign links will contain a unique source code – specific to that particular campaign – that will allow you to measure what your email recipients did on your site after receiving your campaign through your Google Analytics account.

All available add-ons will appear in the Marketplace tab. If the add-on has yet to be installed, click on Manage next to an add-on. You will see the following pop up window asking you to Install the application.

To complete the installation, click on Install this Add-On

Choose the contact list you wish to import your contacts to. You will be prompted to confirm that you have permission from the recipients to add them to your list

Zendesk will now be available. Select it and enter the Zendesk subdomain, email address and password.

Don’t forget to bookmark http://releases.cakemail.com to be updated on all our new features (and bugfixes…) as they’re released!

Wishing you all a great and successful year in 2012, and of course, a huge THANK YOU for being part of our success!

The CakeMail Team

This new feature auto-saves your progress every 2 minutes. Browse all previous versions saved, in case you wish to switch back or undo lots of changes, or continue working on the current version knowing the old ones are there to back you up.

Click Preview to preview the different versions available and Restore to revert to a specific version.

If you would like to offer CakeMail in another language and contribute to a translation, let us know!

The receiver should be able to readily contact the sender (by any means possible) if they no longer wish to be contacted via email. Failure to adhere to this policy will result in the termination of your CakeMail account.

In order to protect you (and us!) from this happening, we have modified our existing detection system to alert us so we can properly resolve this issue before it happens. In CakeMail 3.2, the system automatically searches for both an unsubscribe and an address tag. If they are not detected, you will not be able to move forward and schedule your campaign.

The user attempting to schedule the campaign will be notified immediately, and if the physical address is missing, you’ll have the option of entering the information in a pop up. Once the information has been edited, the tag will be added automatically for you in the footer of the email. (You will also be notified that the unsubscribe tag is missing and that process will be automatic as well)

To read more about this topic, please refer to our Support Document.

At CakeMail, we deploy every week. Sometimes it’s several times a week. Internally, we share information about each of these releases amongst teams on a release note page in our wiki. It’s great that we’re informed, but what about you? How can you be informed of everything that is going on with the tool you use daily? How can you better support your own users by knowing exactly what changed, what was replaced, and why? How can you know that we’re not just playing XBOX 360 all day long?

We strongly believe that better communication will be beneficial for all of us. This is why we’ve created a new release notes page at http://releases.cakemail.com

Here’s the deal: Each time we release a new version of the application, we will update this page with the latest bugfixes and features. I hope you like it as much as we do!

Personalization of a landing page is available after sign up, when a subscriber confirms his subscription, and when a contact unsubscribes.

To manage these settings, access the contact list and  click on Manage Forms > Manage Redirections on the left-hand menu.

You will have the option to keep the current default pages or to redirect to your own.