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Arigato PRO 3.0

Our premium WordPress auto-responder Arigato PRO is now upgraded to version 3.0.
Here are the new features, improvements and fixes from version 2.9 to 3.0:

  • Added option to copy/clone a newsletter.
  • Added option to change the mailing list owner. This is useful if you have defined user roles that can manage only their own mailing lists.
  • A duplicate list feature lets you copy/clone a mailing list with its custom fields and associated autoresponders. This will not copy the subscribers however.
  • You can send autoresponder email also to those who will not receive it because it’s added later to the sequence. This generates a newsletter to only those subscribers.
  • Applied your WP timezone settings across the system. This will make sure that any date intervals are accordingly to your timezone and users have proper signup date on registration. Note that the optional setting for sending emails after X o’clock remains configurable for backward compatibility.
  • New option lets you not send a newsletter to email address if that address also exists in other selected mailing lists.
  • For better site performance new setting lets you include Arigato scripts and CSS only on the pages that contain signup form shortcode.
  • When using the “Subscribe by email” option and a name has broken encoding the subscriber will be inserted without name.
  • Improved integration with Contact Form 7: you can now include the list signup shortcode in the CF7 message to get yes/no confirmation whether the user has subscribed for each of the mailing lists.
  • Improved handling of new lines around list tags in outgoing messages.
  • Improved handling of POP3 connection errors when checking for bounces or email subscribes. They will no longer stop sending of the cron job emails.
  • Added option to use the standard WP auto paragraphs functions on messages that to not properly display new lines. Use it only when needed.
  • Arigato no longer stores or shows the IP address of the subscribers to comply with data protection laws. You can still use the {{{ip}}} variable in admin notification emails at your own responsibility.
  • Added option to redirect the subscriber to a selected URL if they are already registered and activated in the mailing list.
  • Name will automatically have first letter capitalized when you use the {{name}} and {{firstname}} variables inside messages.
  • Default unsubscribe action is now “delete” instead of “deactivate”. You can change this at Arigato PRO Settings page.
  • For consistency changed “label_style” shortcode parameter to “labels” in all locations. Legacy shortcodes will still work.
  • Added parameter size to Google reCaptcha, when version 2 is used.
  • Fixed bug: The option “For better performance load Arigato scripts and CSS only on pages that contain signup form shortcodes.” was causing PHP error in some occasion.
  • Fixed bug: list notification email field did not properly accept more than one email separated with comma.
  • Fixed bug: when Blacklist management contained empty lines it was blacklisting everything.
  • Fixed bug: when a list has redirect URL it should redirect there even duplicate users.
  • Fixed bug: when newsletters were created from presets a tracker for opened mails were not added.

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 use Arigato PRO signup forms as contact forms on your site. Here is how:

Designate a mailing list

You may or may not want to have users who contact you in your mailing lists. If you don’t want the data stored at all, you’d better use a regular contact form plugin. But if you do (and why not?), designate a mailing list for users who contacted you through your site, or use some of your existing Arigato PRO mailing lists.

Create The Contact Form

When using Arigato PRO your contact form will actually be the subscribe form for your mailing list. Create any custom fields that you may want to collect additional user details. Don’t forget probably the most important one: the message text box. Subscribe forms don’t have one by default.

Configure Email Notification

Here is the key point. What you expect from a contact form is to receive the inquiry on your email. So you need to go to the Edit Mailing List page and under “Registration settings” select “Notify me when a new subscriber registers”:

notify-adminArigato PRO will send you the full user’s data along with all custom fields. On top of this you’ll have the information in the mailing  list along with the date when the customer has contacted you. You can even add fields for admin notes to record important notes about this contact.

Optionally Configure Auto-response

In case you want to send automatic response to the users who contact you you can assign the mailing list to an autoresponder campaign. In the autoresponder create a “0 days” message. It will be sent as auto-reply.

Note that in this case the user will get the auto-reply only the first time they contact you. If the same email contacts you again, they won’t receive the auto-response.

Anti-Spam Configuration

You’ll usually need some kind of captcha protection on your contact form to protect from bots. Fortunately Arigato PRO has two: Google’s reCaptcha integrated and its own simple quesiton-based captcha. So you are all set.

Arigato PRO 2.5 and Intelligence Module 1.0.7

The WordPress drip marketing plugin Arigato PRO 2.5 has been released. It’s Intelligence module is also updated to version 1.0.7. In order to get the most of the new Performance Stats page, when updating Arigato PRO to 2.5 it’s recommended to also update the Intelligence module to the latest version.

Here is the changelog between versions 2.4 and 2.5:

  • You can restrict by user role the feature “Automatically subscribe in this list everyone who registers in my blog”.
  • The feature “When user subscribes to this mailing lists, register them as subscriber for my site too” also allows selecting user role.
  • New page “Advanced Stats” will show you excellent overview of your best performing newsletters, autoresponder campaigns, top subscribers, and more.
  • Unsubscribe stats will show you which newsletters, autoresponder campaigns and individual autoresponder emails lead to most unsubscribed users (note that these stats are recorded from a recent version so you won’t get meaningful results from before installing 2.5).
  • When users unsubscribe, we’ll record which email they clicked the “unsubscribe” link from. This info will be shown in the subscribers list page if you choose to not delete the unsubscribed users from the Arigato PRO Settings page.
  • The plugin will now track where the subscribers come from – web form (and on which page), added by admin, imported, subscribed by email, auto-subscribed, or subscribed by some custom method. This information will be visible in your list of users and can be filtered in the search form.
  • The number of active and unsubscribed users is now shown under each mailing list on the Mailing Lists page
  • Added num. sent & num. unsubscribed users under the list of emails in an autoresponder campaign. Same done for newsletters.
  • Custom fields will also be included in the search subscribers form. Note that the search is text-based and works the same way as searching in the default fields.
  • You can now easily setup your blog homepage or selected URL to work as “Squeeze page” and not show any of the WordPress header, footer, sidebar etc links.
  • Advanced role management lets you specify which pages and what access to them will be given to the different user roles. This lets you get your team members involved into the autoresponder management without giving them access to the whole functionality of the plugin. This configuration is available through a new link in the “Roles” section of the “Settings” page.
  • New setting lets you choose whether the unsubscribe page will display all lists or just the current list the user is unsubscribing from.
  • [Intelligence module] Post contents is also added as variable for the digests
  • [Intelligence module] New trigger: when user stays subscribed for X days do Y
  • [Inteligence module] Basic responsive template included

The update is sent by newsletter to eligible customers. If your free upgrades subscription has expired, you can renew for another full year for 40% of the regular price.