[ main menu ] The full version of the Hostahoy Shopping Cart provides and easy and quick way for merchants to keep in touch with their customers - the Customer Mailing List. With this feature merchants can send mailings to customers about specials, product updates, and anything else that comes to mind. Sending a Mailing Sending a mailing is easy and straight forward. Send To - The "Send to" box contains all the email addresses of customers in your customer_db.txt file (your customer database). This can contain addresses of processed orders, pending orders, and canceled or never completed orders. If sending a mailing and you want to leave certain addresses out you can simply remove them from the "Send to" box. Do Not Disturb - You will eventually run into those customers who accuse you of "spamming" them. For those customers we have the "Do Not Disturb" box. In this box you enter the e-mail addresses of those who with not to receive any mailings from you. This is a better alternative to removing them from your customer database. Fill out the "From", "CC" (optional), and "Subject" headers, then enter your message in the "Message" textarea. When you are done composing your message, hit the "Send Mail" button. Once the messages are sent, then the screen will refresh with a total number of recipients the message went through. |
