A Mailchimp-style designer built into the portal. Lists made from the contacts you already keep. A weekly newsletter that fills itself with this week's prayer times, events and sponsors. Reports on who opened and clicked. No second system, no export, no separate bill.
Click any part of the email to change it. Drop in a picture, add a button, move a section. What you see is what arrives, on a computer or on a phone.
Dear Miriam,
This week's kiddush is sponsored by the Adler family in honour of their daughter's bat mitzvah.
Friday 20 November · a full Shabbat of learning with our guest scholar.
RegisterDrawn from the portal's Email tab. Links can point straight at a page of your own website.
Drop in a portal block and it fills itself from what the office has already entered. The Thursday newsletter becomes a five-minute job: check it, add a note, schedule it.
The parasha or holiday, the dates, candle lighting and havdalah, worked out for your location.
This week's kiddush and seuda sponsors, and which ones are still open for someone to take.
Flyer cards for what is coming up, each linking to its own sign-up page on your website.
The same times your website shows, so the email and the site can never disagree.
Notices the office writes once and keeps at the top or bottom of every issue until they are no longer needed.
A neat grid of local business ads to close the issue, managed in their own tab.
Matched by email, then phone, then name. The 27 stay on this list without becoming contacts. 3 had unsubscribed and will not be mailed.
Illustrative numbers.
Your mailing list is your contact list, so nobody keeps a second copy up to date. Every contact shows whether they will get the email and, if not, why.
Every email has a report: how many received it, opened it and clicked, which links they clicked, and who bounced or unsubscribed. Totals for the last 30 days, 90 days, year or all time sit at the top.
Illustrative numbers.
Bulk email lives or dies on reputation. Each congregation sends under its own name with its own sending identity, so one shul's list can never drag down another's delivery.
The Health tab shows your sender, its standing with the email provider and your last 90 days of deliveries, bounces and complaints, in plain language.
If bounces or complaints climb past a safe level, sending pauses on its own and the office gets an email explaining what happened and the steps to resume.
Large sends go out a batch every minute instead of all at once, which is what inbox providers like to see. A scheduled email sends itself.
Beyond the newsletter, the portal writes to people at the moments that matter to them, in your shul's name and colours.
An Outreach page lists the yahrzeits and birthdays coming up. Email the families from a template you can edit, in a click.
A month before the anniversary of a sponsorship, the sponsor is invited to sponsor again. A yahrzeit follows the Hebrew date, everything else the parasha.
An emailed receipt for every payment, written for the kind of payment it was. Members can opt out.
When a donation or sponsorship is made in someone's honour, that person can be sent a note saying so.
Send statements to everyone who owes, with a link they can pay from. No login needed.
Members who install the portal on their phone can get a notification for a new pledge and a yahrzeit three days ahead. The office hears about every new sponsorship booking by email.
Bring last week's newsletter and your mailing list. We will rebuild it in the designer, with your prayer times and events filled in, while you watch.
