Creating a New Autoresponder

 Autoresponders > Create New

1. Scroll over "Autoresponders", and Click on "Create New"
   
   

2. Fill in the Properties information for your new Autoresponder and Click "Create"
   Property Descriptions are below.
   
   

3. This will bring you to the Message Screen where you may add messages to the autoresponder you just created.
   
   

4. Click on "Add Message" across the top of the page.
   
   

5. Add your first message and Click on "Save Changes". 
   
   

6. Repeat this process until all of your messages have been added.

Note:  If you wish to Test the messages after adding them, click on the "Test button" across the top of the page.

Property Descriptions for Creating a New Autoresponder

General settings

• From name
  This is the name of the person or company that your follow-up messages will appear to come from. 

• Reply address
  When your subscriber receives a message from your autoresponder and decides to reply to you, this is the e-mail address where their reply will be sent. 

• Subscription address
  Subscribers may subscribe to and unsubscribe from this autoresponder by sending e-mail to the address you enter here. You only need to enter the first part of the address (the part before the @). The domain part (after the @) is already entered here. Let's say you want to set up a marketing course which will be delivered over five days - a good listening address for this would be course@yourdomain.com. You would enter only 'course' here.
  
  
• Description
  The description you enter here will appear in your autoresponder list. This description is for your own use and is not sent out with messages. 

• Initial status
  When you create an autoresponder, it needs to have an initial status. 
  
  Active - The autoresponder will immediately be available for subscription, even if you have not finished creating it.
  
  Suspended - The autoresponder will not be available for subscription. If anyone has already subscribed (highly unlikely at this stage) then no more follow-up messages will be sent to them.
  
  Dormant - The autoresponder will not be available for subscription. This is the best option to choose here. When you have finished developing and testing this autoresponder, you can set it's status to 'Active' and subscriptions will be allowed.

Subscription options

• E-mail control
  If you would like subscribers to be able to subscribe to and unsubscribe from this autoresponder by sending e-mail to its subscription address, check this box.
  
  
• Form control
  If you would like contacts to be able to subscribe to and unsubscribe from this autoresponder by completing a form on a web page, check this box.

• Drop from these autoresponders
  When someone subscribes to this autoresponder, select from this list the autoresponders that you want this subscriber to be dropped from.

• Allow duplicate subscriptions
  If you want to allow subscribers to be able to sign up for this autoresponder multiple times, check this box.

• What happens on completion?
  When a subscriber has received all the follow-up messages you've set up for this autoresponder, what do you want to happen? The choices are:
  
  Flag as finished - The subscriber's status will be changed to 'Finished'. No more follow-up messages will be sent, even if you add more follow-up messages to this autoresponder.
  
  Retain active status - The subscriber's status will remain set to 'Active'. You could then add further follow-up messages to this autoresponder and they will be sent to the subscriber.
  
  Loop - Move this subscriber to a different autoresponder or to a message in this one.

• Loop to autoresponder
  If you have chosen Loop for the What happens on completion? setting, this sets the autoresponder that they will be moved to. It can be the same autoresponder that they are already subscribed to, if you want to send them the messages again.

• Loop to message #
  If you have chosen Loop for the What happens on completion? setting, this sets the message number in the above autoresponder they will start at.

• Loop interval
  This sets the number of days before the subscriber will receive the first message from the new autoresponder, if you have chosen Loop for the What happens on completion? setting.

Subscriber self-edit

• Subscriber can edit format preference
  If you include the {EDIT_LINK} tag in your messages, you subscriber can click through to a page where they can change their subscription settings. Check this box if you would like them to be able to set their message format preference (plain text/HTML).

Notification

• Subscribe notification
  Check this option if you would like to be notified by e-mail when someone subscribes to this autoresponder. The e-mail address used is the one set up in the Your Profile > Basic Profile screen.

• Unsubscribe notification
  Check this option if you would like to be notified by e-mail when someone unsubscribes from this autoresponder. The e-mail address used is the one set up in the Your Profile > Basic Profile Settings