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	Professionally Designed Email Templates Catalise Email Marketer includes professionally designed email templates that have been tested to work with all email clients including Outlook, Thunderbird, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. You can use these templates to design a custom email template or you can even upload an existing email template.
	Step-by-Step User Guide Get up and running fast with absolutely no end-user training required. Catalise Email Marketer includes an online user guide, that explains exactly how you can create, send and track your own email campaigns.
	Complete Campaign and Link Tracking Reports For each email campaign you send, you can see exactly how many people opened the email, how many people unsubscribed, which links they clicked, email forwarding statistics and more. Interspire Email Marketer's campaign reporting features are simply unmatched.
	Send Hundreds of Thousands of Emails Catalise Email Marketer was designed from the very beginning to be able to support the sending of hundreds of thousands of emails without crashing or without any problems - such as duplicate sending. We spent months building and testing just this one part of Catalise Email Marketer to make sure it was rock-solid.
	Painless Integration Into Any Website Use Catalise Email Marketer's built-in form creation wizard to creating subscription forms that you can place on your web site/s to collect the visitors details. If you have an existing email subscriber list they can import that too, all from Catalise Email Marketer.
	Create and Send Unlimited Autoresponders You can easily create and send unlimited autoresponder emails on autopilot with Catalise Email Marketer. Take it a step further and only send autoresponders to subscribers who match certain criteria, such as a particular age, location or interest.
	Integrated, Automatic Bounce Handling Catalise Email Marketer makes it easy to remove bad email addresses from your subscriber lists with its built-in bounce handling engine. Simply setup an email account to accept bounced emails when you send a campaign and Catalise Email Marketer takes care of the rest.

General Features

• Built in templates (easy to add more)
• Remember login details
• Built in tutorials
• context-sensitive help / tutorials
• Improved user-interface
• If you only have access to one mailing list, you are automatically taken to the next step in whatever process you are performing
• Separate the settings page into tabs ^NEW
• Change the theme (default, Office XP, etc) of the WYSIWYG email editor ^NEW

Lists

• Bulk changes to list subscribers (change all to html/text, make them active/inactive)
• Copy lists
• Merge multiple lists into one list
• Save reply-to, bounce-address, bounce account information with a list
• Allow imap bounce account
• Allow extra mail settings to be saved per list (eg /notls or /nossl)
• Bounce processing differentiates between types (hard, soft). Interspire Email Marketer detects a hard bounce and sets the status of the subscriber to bounced and never emails them again. Interspire Email Marketer detects a soft bounce but does not change the status of the subscribe until a soft bounce has occurred 5 times on that same subscriber. Once an email has soft bounced 5 times, it is treated as a hard bounce.
• Add company details to a mailing list and they will work as custom fields when sending an email ^NEW

Custom Fields

• Associated with a mailing list not with a user (means sharing a list between user will show custom fields correctly)
• Can be associated with multiple lists at once
• New "radio button" type
• Better data checking when importing/subscribing
• Subscriber IP is now a usable custom field replacement when sending emails ^NEW

Manage Subscribers

• Search all of your lists at once
• Option to bypass filtering step
• Bulk changes (delete multiple at once, change them to html/text)
• Save different stages of subscribe. Eg subscribe request (time + ip address), subscribe confirm (time + ip address)
• Save different stages of unsubscribe. Eg unsubscribe request (time + ip address), unsubscribe confirm (time + ip address)
• Only show custom fields associated with the list a subscriber is on
• New "bounce" and "unsubscribe" status

Import Subscribers

• Import subscribe date
• Handle quotes around field names properly
• Much better reporting about import results (see duplicates, problems with data etc)
• Option to add subscribers to any autoresponders the list has

Export Subscribers

• Option to export subscriber's IP address if tracking is enabled from the settings page ^NEW
• Option to include bounce details when exporting 'bounced' subscribers ^NEW
• Option to search/export/send to multiple filters at once (eg 3 checkbox items at once) ^NEW

Banned Subscribers

• Global ban list (bans across all lists)
• Upload a file of email addresses to ban

Newsletters

• Bulk actions (make multiple newsletters active/inactive at once)
• Better attachment handling
• Save/Save and Exit buttons (can save as you are going)
• No need to refresh to upload a file or import from a url
• Check and warn about missing unsubscribe links
• Archives are an rss feed so easily changed and easily ported to an external website
• Choose whether to archive per newsletter
• Completely disable embedded images or disable them by default ^NEW
• Enable or disable attachments plus an option to set a maximum attachment size ^NEW
• An option to set the maximum email size you can send ^NEW
• An option to show a warning if an email is larger than "X" kb when saving and also before sending ^NEW
• Checking of image locations when you save a template/newsletter/autoresponder and before a newsletter is sent ^NEW
• Can extract the text version of an email from the WYSIWYG editor straight into the "Text Version" textbox ^NEW
• Send multiple preview emails at once ^NEW
• Proprietary integrated spam checking and rating for email campaigns ^NEW
• Preview your email campaigns exactly as they will look in all popular email clients ^NEW

Sending Newsletters

• Can send to multiple lists at once (removes duplicates before it starts)
• A send through the popup can be paused, cron turned on, it will pick it up and continue the send and vice-versa
• Cron sending will create the queue just before it starts (so if you schedule in advance, new subscribers will be picked up and any unsubscribes will be removed before starting the process)
• Can embed images into an email
• Change character set / encoding for each send
• Cron sending can pick up "broken" or interrupted mailings
• Auto-optimizing of sends (database is automatically optimized before and after a send)
• Admin and user get notified if a user goes over per-month of max-emails limits

Templates

• Global templates
• Bulk actions (make multiple templates active/inactive global/not global at once)
• Save/Save and Exit buttons (can save as you are going)
• No need to refresh to upload a file or import from a url

Autoresponders

• Bulk actions (make multiple autoresponders active/inactive at once)
• Save/Save and Exit buttons (can save as you are going)
• No need to refresh to upload a file or import from a url
• Option to add existing subscribers to the autoresponder
• Can embed images into an email
• Change character set / encoding for each autoresponder
• Better attachment handling
• Check and warn about missing unsubscribe links
• Only show custom fields associated with the autoresponders mailing list. Don't let a user include custom fields that aren't associated with the list
• An option to disable parts of the cron job, or specify how often each part runs (eg bounce processing should run at most once an hour but scheduled sending runs every 2 minutes) ^NEW

Forms

• Send-to-friend form (with appropriate stats)
• Better management for ordering custom fields / form options (move things around in an easier fashion)
• "subscribe form" can now be a "contact form".
• use appropriate smtp server details that are set (ie will pick up general settings or user settings)
• can send text and html parts of confirm/thanks emails
• modify details and send-to-friend can be customised within Interspire Email Marketer (still can't go on a website though)
• option to show/hide subscriber format choice
• Easier customising (form html is outside of code and easily edited)
• "Printable" form type idea for retail stores to accept subscribers at Point of Sale areas for later entry into a mailing list ^NEW

Stats

• Show more information (how many sent, how long it took, unique opens)
• Show open stats, link stats, bounce stats, forwarding stats, unsubscribe stats per newsletter or autoresponder
• Show trends in subscribes/unsubscribes per mailing list
• Show trends per user for their send history
• Show per domain information per mailing list (eg 50% are yahoo subscribers)
• Option to search/export/send to people who have NOT clicked a link or opened a particular email

^NEW = New features added in the latest releases