The system is easy to use.
- Your first step should be to create a contact list, you can create as many as you like, go to Lists --> Create New
- Then you might want to create some custom fields to store any information you like about your customers such as their first name, last name, birthday, company etc. Click on the list you created and then click on Custom Fields. If you will be importing your list from a spreadsheet you can skip this step because we will create custom fields automatically from the columns found in your spreadsheet.
- You can then add contacts to your new list. Click on the list you created and then click Subscribers. Then click Create new to manually add a subscriber or click Import to import your subscribers from a CSV file. For help importing subscribers see: How to import subscribers from a spreadsheet
- You can create and send email campaigns from the Campaigns menu. Before sending a campaign you will need to add and verify your sending domain, please see: Creating a sending domain
- You can generate a subscribe form to add to your website from Lists --> Click on the list you created -> then click on Forms.
There are heaps of other features including surveys and statistics but the above should get you started.
Verifying your sending domain
When creating an email campaign your must set the from address to an email address from your own domain, you cannot send from a generic address or from a domain that you do not own such as Gmail, Hotmail or Xtra.
A verified sending domain allows spam filters to verify that you own the domain you are sending from, this prevents email spoofing, please see the following help topic for details:
Creating a sending domain
Adding an unsubscribe link
All campaigns must include an unsubscribe link, this is as simple as typing [UNSUBSCRIBE_LINK] but there are other options too, for more information see:
How to add an unsubscribe-link
Your unsubscribe link must be clearly visible, do not attempt to obscure it in any way.
Adding a subscription form to your website
You agree to use double opt in on all public subscribe forms that feed email addresses into BoltMail.
For more information please see: Signup confirmation - double opt in
Legal stuff
Before sending any email please ensure you are complying with the New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act. To find out what you need to do please see: How to ensure you are not sending spam
We also strongly recommend enabling two factor authentication to keep your subscriber data safe and secure
