[Arigato PRO] The {{url}} Variable
Most configurable emails in BroadFast for WordPress allow using the {{url}} variable. It gets contextually replaced by URL toi subscribe, unsubscribe etc (as appropriate). Please note that the variable will not automatically be replaced with a HTML hyperlink. It will be replaced with URL only. If you want to explicitly make it clickable HTML hyperlink…
Arigato PRO 2.7
Version 2.7 of the WordPress drip marketing suite Arigato PRO has been released. Highlights between versions 2.6 and 2.7: Added report by email domain for newsletter and autoresponder message reports. Added option to manually move subscribers from one mailing list to another. Added server-side email validation for cases when the JS validation is skipped. Added…
Arigato PRO: Adding Email to Existing Sequential Auto-Responder
What happens with existing members when you add a new email to a sequential autoresponder series in Arigato PRO? The answer is simple: the email will be sent only to the users who are registered exactly X days ago (and will of course be sent in the future to the other new or existing members…
Daily or Weekly Digest From Your Content (Intelligence Module for Arigato PRO)
From version 0.9.3 the Intelligence module of our drip marketing suite BroadFast for WordPress supports a cool new feature: Schedule a weekly or daily digest from your published content. You can set up multiple digests. Each digest can pull all your recent content or only content from selected category. You can fully control how the…
Email Design Templates in Arigato PRO / Intelligence Module
Design templates allow you to quickly attach pre-defined designs to newsletters or autoresponder email messages in Arigato PRO for WordPress (Intelligence module required). The “Design templates” feature is available from the following versions: – Arigato PRO version 2.2 – Intelligence module version 0.8.5 Here is a quick example of how to use the feature: 1.…
Event Triggers in Intelligence Module for Arigato PRO
Event triggers are powerful way to do automated actions in your WordPress auto-responder when certain events happen. This page explains the event triggers in the Intelligence module for Arigato RPO: Subscribes to is a pretty obvious trigger. It fires immediately when a subscriber subscribes to a selected mailing list. Unsubscribes from, similar to the above…
Formidable Forms Integration in Arigato PRO
From version 3.1.9.5 the WordPress newsletter plugin Arigato PRO supports integration with Formidable Forms. The integration lets you automatically subscribe respondents who fill your Formidable form to a selected mailing list in Arigato PRO. If you have the Formidable Forms plugin installed and active you will see the integration link in the “Subscribe form” column…
How To Integrate Arigato PRO with Contact Form 7
From version 2.2.4 our premium newletter and auto-responder WordPress plugin Arigato PRO has a built-in integration with Contact Form 7. This is the most popular contact form for WordPress so we decided to simply build the integration inside our software instead of creating additional plugins. What Does It Integrate? The integration allows you to use your…
Importing Subscribers in Arigato PRO
Importing subscribers in Arigato PRO is easy but entering field numbers can be a bit confusing. Especially if you have custom fields in the mailing list and the CSV file. This guide will clear it all up. Note! If your file contains any non-English characters (for example Asian, Cyrillic, any French and Spanish accents etc.),…
JetPack Contact Form Integration in Arigato PRO
From version 2.3.3 Arigato PRO, the newsletter and drip marketing plugin, now has built-in integration with JetPack contact form. It works very similar to the Contact form 7 integration. The only difference is that you need to add the BroadFast PRO shortcodes inside the post which contains the JetPack form shortcodes. If you are including also…
Lead Magnets in Arigato PRO Intelligence Module 1.1
From Intelligence module version 1.1 and Arigato PRO version 2.6.0.6 you can create lead magnets and add them to the signup forms. What’s a Lead Magnet and How Is It Different Than a Welcome Email? Just like a Welcome email (the “0 days” email you set in an autoresponder campaign), the Lead Magnet is just…
Paid Mailing Lists in Arigato PRO Intelligence
From version 1.0.9 the Intelligence module for Arigato PRO drip marketing suite supports mailing lists with paid signup. The feature requires that the core Arigato PRO is also updated to version 2.5.3 or newer. The currently supported payment method is Paypal (more options to come). To make a paid mailing list first ensure that you…
Programmatically Add User in Arigato PRO & Arigato Lite
If you have custom function that wants to subscribe user in Arigato PRO or Arigato Lite mailing list, here is the code that you need to use. For Arigato PRO: if(!class_exists(‘BFTProUser’)) return false; // avoid fatal errors in case Arigato PRO is not activated $_user = new BFTProUser(); $_user->ignore_redirect = true; // array with user…
Responsive Email Presets from Arigato PRO 2.6
The new version of Arigato PRO – 2.6 – comes with a very important and powerful feature: responsive email presets. While the idea is similar to the email templates in the Intelligence module, the presets will be more convenient for most users. Instead of defining just the header and footer where your message is, they…
Running A/B Tests in Arigato Gozaimasu
A/B testing is a great way to figure out which of different subscribe form designs perform best by attracting most subscribers per impression. And since the visual designer in Arigato Gozaimasu provides you a lot of possible designs – regular inline forms, responsive pop-ups, sticky top or bottom bars, or animated slide-ins – it’s great…
Some Basics of Successful Email Delivery
While this post is mostly pointed to customers of Arigato PRO, it can be used as guide for everyone who has problems with delivery rates of their outgoing newsletters and auto-responder emails. Here are two very important steps to take that will greatly improve the delivery of your emails: Use SMTP. PHP mail works… sometimes.…
Split Testing for Autoresponder Emails in Arigato PRO Intelligence Module
This feature requires at least Arigato PRO 2.5.1.5 and Intelligence module 1.0.8. It allows you to split test different versions of emails and see which perform best. The best place to figure this out is the new “Advanced stats” page introduced recently. To enable the feature select the following checkbox in the Add / Edit…
Squeeze Page in Arigato PRO Autoresponder
From version 2.4.2 the WordPress autoresponder plugin Arigato PRO supports a very easy method for creating squeeze / landing page. Everyone who have tried to do this with a WordPress blog knows how much pain usually this is and that it often requires installing more plugins or a special squeeze theme. Well, no more, at…
Subscribe By Sending Email in Arigato PRO
From version 2.2.7 the WordPress autoresponder plugin Arigato PRO supports “Subscribe by sending email” feature. Here is how it works: you need to designate an email address and enter your POP3 login details in the new “Subscribe by Email” page: Then the plugin’s cron job will login once per day to this account and will…
Tech Support for WordPress Plugins
Sometimes when you have a problem with any of our plugin we will request you access. This happens only in cases when your problem cannot be reproduced on our installations. Why is this required is explained later in this post. How To Provide Access It’s easiest to just send administrator’s login (preferably not yours, but…
Troubleshooting Email Sending Problems In Arigato PRO
You have created a campaign or a newsletter and have a mailing list, but emails are not sending as expected? Frustrating for sure. This guide will help you figure it out quickly. There are exactly two possible causes (excluding the possibility that you just did not sent that newsletter) why emails would not be sent:…
Troubleshooting: When Your Site Homepage Does Not Accept Arigato PRO Signups
This is quite a common problem with sites that run WordPress but have their homepage made as landing page with other plugin or just built as static page. Arigato PRO has a “Squeeze page” option and we strongly recommend it. But if for some reason you use a a static squeeze page, or other squeeze…
Using Arigato PRO With Contact Forms
Many customers do not realize that having Arigato PRO is enough for handling newsletters, marketing campaigns AND contact forms. There might be reasons for you to want to use a contact form plugin. And because of this we have built-in integration for Contact Form 7 and JetPack Contact Form. But in most cases you can…
Using Filters / Segmentation in Arigato PRO Intelligence Module
The Intelligence module of Arigato PRO Autoresponder has a handy feature for segmenting your mailing lists into slices based on various criteria. This allows you to send some emails to parts of your mailing list without creating new list. For example you can send a news flash only to users signed up last month or…
Using The Super Powers of Tags and Segments in Arigato PRO Intelligence Module
Organizing your subscribers in different mailing lists is great but sometimes you need a bit further categorization – for example based on ad campaign you ran, on interest shown in a given product(s) etc. Tagging users in Arigato PRO Fortunately the WordPress auto-responder plugin Arigato PRO comes with an easy way to tag users manually…
WooCommerce Integration in Arigato Pro 3.0.1
From version 3.0.1 Arigato Pro Autoresponder has built-in WooCommerce integration. The integration allows you to automatically subscribe customers to mailing lists when they purchase products from your WooCommerce store. Here’s how to make this work: Obviously you need to use WooCommerce and create some products. Then enable the integration at the Arigato PRO Settings page:…
Zapier Webhooks in Arigato PRO
From version 3.2 the WordPress newsletter and email marketing plugin Arigato PRO supports sending webhooks to Zapier and any other services that work accept webhooks. You can learn more about Zapier’s implementation of webhooks here. What are Webhooks in Arigato PRO? Hooks will be notified when an user subscribes to or unsibscribes from a selected…