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=== Creative Mail – Easier WordPress & WooCommerce Email Marketing ===
Contributors: bluehost, newfold
Tags: email, marketing, newsletter, subscribe, contact form, crm, automations, campaigns, ecommerce, promotion, offers, retargeting, newfold, newfold digital, correo electronico
Requires at least: 4.9
Tested up to: 6.5
Stable tag: 1.6.9
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Requires PHP: 7.3
Website: https://www.creativemail.com
WC requires at least: 3.6.0
WC tested up to: 8.7.0

Creative Mail was designed specifically for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Our intelligent (and super fun) email editor simplifies email marketing campaign creation and pulls your WordPress blog posts, website images and WooCommerce products right into your email content.

== Description ==
Creative Mail was designed specifically for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Our intelligent (and super fun) email editor simplifies email marketing campaign creation and pulls your WordPress blog posts, website images and WooCommerce products right into your email content. Leads from your WordPress website, ecommerce store and contact forms are automatically captured and routed into our included Contacts CRM and synced with your email marketing lists.

It’s perfect for automatic blog post syndication, newsletters and announcements, event promotion, WooCommerce product specials, retargeting ecommerce shoppers, sending postcards, providing updates and more.

Create awesome email marketing campaigns right from your WordPress Admin Dashboard that are all powered by the award-winning & rock-solid reliability of Newfold Digital.

## CREATIVE MAIL IS:
1. Incredibly easy WordPress email marketing
2. Deeply connected to your website & WooCommerce store
3. Accessed from within your WP Admin Dashboard
4. Automatically syncing your contacts and building your marketing lists
5. Fun, which makes life way better

### [VIEW OUR DETAILED FEATURES](https://www.creativemail.com/plans)

### [WOOCOMMERCE & WORDPRESS INTEGRATION](https://www.creativemail.com):
Turn your WooCommerce store and your WordPress site into efficient marketing engines. All ecommerce contacts and form entries are all captured in our included CRM and synced automatically with Creative Mail.

- **Enhanced Ecommerce:** WooCommerce store customers and ecommerce interactions are all captured automatically within your email marketing list. Retarget and re-engage your customers. Sell more stuff.
- **Beautiful Transactional Emails:** Standard WooCommerce triggered emails can be replaced to match your branding and style. Build one, and then all your other WooCommerce emails managed by Creative will inherit the same branded look. Hey, style matters.
- **Jetpack Forms Integration:** Collect, sync, and manage opt-in subscribers directly from Jetpack forms into Creative Mail.
- **Build Better Branding:** Creative Mail includes our free LogoBuilder and image editing suite to enhance your brand.
- **Amazing Stock Images:** You get free access to the completely integrated photo library (in addition to your own WordPress media library) to make amazing email marketing campaigns with award-winning images.
- **Get Better Deliverability:** Other email marketing solutions require complex SMTP solutions, external gateways or have you sending from their less than stellar IPs. As a result, your emails can get bounced or never delivered. Creative Mail is an all-in-one solution that uses a rock solid infrastructure, for superior deliverability. Boom! ‘nuff said.
- **Live Support:** With our paid plans (Awesome & Ultimate) you get access to phone and chat support to help you get answers from real live, helpful humans. Imagine that!

### [OPT-IN  EMAIL FORMS](https://www.creativemail.com):
- **Jetpack Newsletter Form:** Jetpack has a JMML (join my mailing list) Newsletter Signup form. When activated, contacts who sign up for your Newsletter through the Jetpack form are brought right into your Newsletter email marketing list. Easy-peasy.
- **Other WordPress Website Forms:** Creative Mail detects the current website forms used on your site, and automatically adds contacts to your email marketing lists. Automagically awesome!
- **Creative Mail Form:** If you are not using a form on your site, you can easily add your Creative Mail Gutenberg form to start collecting email addresses of your site visitors

### [EMAIL AUTOMATIONS](https://www.creativemail.com):
- **Scheduled Sends:** Schedule the time and date of outgoing email marketing campaigns based on your business or organization's preferences.
- **Single-Step Triggered Emails:** Replace your non-branded WooCommerce order notification triggered emails with on-brand Creative Mail emails for deeper customer engagement.
- **Abandoned Cart:** With Creative Mail and a WooCommerce store you can send emails to customers who abandon their WooCommerce shopping cart. They'll get an email that reminds them of the items they were considering before they left.
- **Multi-Step Marketing Journeys:** Develop sophisticated CLM (that’s marketing speak for - customer lifecycle marketing) campaigns by leveraging our “if this, then that” campaign automation engine that responds to a customer's actions, birthdays or purchases. Welcome your customers with email automation.

### [ANALYTICS & INSIGHTS](https://www.creativemail.com):
- **Realtime Email Marketing Statistics:** Bounces, opens, clicks, forwards, complaints, unsubscribes and more are easily tracked and managed. Be a control freak, it’s OK.
- **Marketing Campaign Mapview:** With our mapview you can see who's opening your  emails on what devices on an awesome, interactive visual map.

### [CONTACTS CRM](https://www.creativemail.com):
- **Contact Lists:** Within the Creative Mail Contacts CRM you can quickly and easily manage all your Contacts, Subscribers and Unsubscribes.
- **Contact Activity:** Drill into the purchases and behaviors of your contacts.
- **List Sources:** You’ll know where your contacts come from whether it’s a manual entry, your Jetpack forms, WooCommerce Store, or another defined source.
- **Custom Labels:** Further refine your marketing by adding custom labels to subscribers or customers (ex. Truck Buyers, Concert Attendee, Dog Owners, etc.).

### [IMPORT & EXPORT](https://www.creativemail.com):
- **Contacts Sync & Import:** No need anymore for complex integrations between your WordPress site and your email marketing provider. With Creative Mail it all simply works with WordPress out of the box. We do the heavy lifting to sync and import your Jetpack, WordPress, WooCommerce and most used Contact form plugins contacts automatically.
- **Import & Export Via CSV:** Import bulk email marketing lists (limits may apply), add subscribers one by one, or export your contacts into a CSV file.

### [CAMPAIGNS](https://www.creativemail.com):
- **AI Emails:** Forget templates, let our A.I. build your email marketing campaigns for you. Pull in WordPress posts or WooCommerce products for sale, and you’re good to go. Let our robots do your bidding!
- **Email Campaign Creation:** Build your email marketing campaigns in seconds from your WordPress admin dashboard.
- **Awesome Deliverability:** All email marketing campaigns are sent and delivered by the award-winning power of Newfold Digital technology. We got you.
- **Automated Email Marketing:** Send multistep email campaigns automatically, with triggers you define, whether that’s based on time, a customer birthday or behavioral actions. Create a flow to welcome your customers and send a special discount and reminder on their birthday.

### [EMAIL LIST MANAGEMENT](https://www.creativemail.com):
- **Contact List Growth:** Creative Mail collects leads from Jetpack forms or the top WordPress lead capture forms and adds them directly to your email lists.
- **Automate Emails:** With our “Welcome” email trigger you can send a Creative Mail welcome email series to new subscribers and blog readers.
- **Auto List Updater:** Creative Mail automatically updates your contact lists for unsubscribes.

### ADD ONS
- **Social Campaigns:** Connect your social media accounts with your Creative Mail account to share your newsletters with your followers on social.
- **Marketing Calendar:** With your socials connected we give you an overview of all the newsletters and posts that you’ve sent and scheduled. An easy overview to engage with your audience.
- **Booking:** Set up Bookings for your business with the Bookings tool. Give clients and customers an easy, quick way to set up appointments with you.
- **LogoBuilder:** Create an amazing logo for your business or social with LogoBuilder and add it to your email campaigns.

## TERMS OF SERVICE & PRIVACY NOTICE
On behalf of our lawyers (seriously, they’re nice people), please feel free to review our:

Creative Mail [Terms of Service](https://www.bluehost.com/terms/user-agreement)
Creative Mail [Privacy Notice](https://newfold.com/privacy-center)

== Screenshots ==
1. Your all-in-one dashboard
2. Design awesome email campaigns with the visual editor
3. Manage your contacts and email lists, all in one place
4. Let Creative Mail handle your WooCommerce emails
5. Spice up your transactional WooCommerce store emails
6. Enhance your brand with LogoBuilder

== Changelog ==
* 1.6.9 - Update to support PHP 7.3+
* 1.6.8 - Added support for wordpress 6.5 and woocommerce version 8.7
* 1.6.7 - Add additional Links to Navigation Dashboard
* 1.6.6 - Better security fixes
* 1.6.5 - Abandoned Cart improvements
* 1.6.4 - Branding refactor
* 1.6.3 - Hotfix: Fixed a bug where the plugin was not working on some servers.
* 1.6.2 - Security updates and removal of Unsupported Plugin (Caldera Forms)
* 1.6.1 - Security update
* 1.6.0 - Security update, Bug fixes and Support to sync Address Fields for Contact Form 7
* 1.5.4 - Migration to WordPress version 6.0.2 and Checkout mail templates update
* 1.5.3 - README update
* 1.5.2 - Small bug fix for PHP versions previous to 7.1
* 1.5.1 - Fix outdated PHP classes
* 1.5.0 - Fix WooCommerce product lists, improved WooCommerce order workflows and improved contact management.
* 1.4.9 - Fixes regarding WooCommerce and Contact Sync Updates.
* 1.4.8 - Redirect to main CreativEmail templates page when user has abandoned cart template deactivated. Fix sync error with contact form 7. Added automation trigger for customer buying products.
* 1.4.7 - Fix currency type being shown in "Abandoned Cart" emails for WooCommerce.
* 1.4.6 - Add phone number handling for Jetpack Forms. Bug fixes.
* 1.4.5 - This version contains a fix for Creative mail customers who also use the Bluehost WebsiteBuilder functionality to build their WordPress site.
* 1.4.4 - Add support for 'return to shop' urls
* 1.4.3 - Updated brand name.
* 1.4.2 - Fixed a crash that could occur when using the elementor contact sync.
* 1.4.1 - Fixed several bugs
* 1.4.0 - Added gutenberg contact form block CreativeMail
* 1.3.9 - Include notice when you have enabled a password protection plugin.
* 1.3.8 - Fixes an issue with WooCommerce recommendations.
* 1.3.7 - Fixes an issue specific to PHP 7.4
* 1.3.6 - Improved integrations with WooCommerce to support features like Abandoned Cart emails.
* 1.3.5 - Addresses two small issues where some relative URLs would not work for WP installs in subdirectories.
* 1.3.4 - Improved initial contact sync: we can now import all your contacts without any limits!
* 1.3.3 - Direct access to Creative Mail features from the left side nav in WP Admin.
* 1.3.2 - Fixes an issue where the contact sync might cause a critical error.
* 1.3.1 - Add the ability to show the amount of recovered revenue via abandoned carts.
* 1.3.0 - Support for abandoned cart emails
* 1.2.4 - Introduces a 'Reset' button on the settings page for accounts that are stuck.
* 1.2.3 - Fixes an issue where the banner would show up again after being dismissed.
* 1.2.2 - Introduction of multistep automations and fixes a couple of small issues in the CreativeMail widgets
* 1.2.1 - Fixes an issue where some users would experience an issue where our UI was blocked by pop-up blockers.
* 1.2.0 - Context aware notifications, add support for Ninja forms, add support for Caldera forms

== Installation ==

- Go to your admin dashboard
- Click the “Plugins” menu on the left side navigation bar
- Click on “Add New”
- Search for “Creative”
- Click “Install Now”
- Click “Activate”
- You will be redirected to Creative Mail where you can set up your account

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Requirements =
- Your website or blog must be using WordPress.org version 4.6 or higher on your server.
- The plugin can be installed on regular WordPress environments and also on WordPress.com sites.

= What does the Creative Mail plugin do? =
The Creative mail plugin allows you to create awesome email marketing campaigns right from your WordPress Admin Dashboard that are all powered by the award-winning & rock-solid reliability of Newfold Digital.
Our intelligent (and super fun) email editor simplifies email marketing campaign creation and pulls your WordPress blog posts, website images and WooCommerce products right into your email content. Leads from your WordPress website, ecommerce store and contact forms are automatically captured and routed into our included Contacts CRM and synced with your email marketing lists.
It’s perfect for automatic blog post syndication, newsletters and announcements, event promotion, WooCommerce product specials, retargeting ecommerce shoppers, sending postcards, providing updates and more.

= Are coding skills needed to use Creative Mail? =
Creative Mail is built for non-developers, you don't even need to fill in API keys. If you know how to install a plugin on your website, you are good to go! You will have your images, blog posts and products from your WordPress site available to make campaigns without having to lift a finger.

=  What is available for free with CreativeMail? =
With Creative Mail you can send campaigns to your contacts for free.  Promote your blog articles, WooCommerce products, events and much more with your followers. Advanced functionality like sending Welcome series Automations and WooCommerce order notifications are part of a paid plan.
You can see the overview of all the features per plan [on our plans page](https://www.creativemail.com/plans/).

= What forms can I use in combination with Creative mail? =
You can add the Creative Mail Form to your site to gather contacts and add contacts automatically to a specific list.
Creative Mail also integrated with one of the form builders below. For those you can easily activate Contact Synchronization:
- Jetpack forms
- Contact form 7
- WPForms lite and WPForms
- Newsletter
- Gravity forms
- Elementor
- Ninja forms
- Caldera Forms
- Formidable

= Does Creative Mail support ecommerce stores? =
Creative mail is fully integrated with WooCommerce, which enables you to share your WooCommerce products via email campaigns. You can also replace your non-branded WooCommerce order notification triggered emails with on-brand Creative Mail emails for deeper customer engagement. Build one, and then all your other WooCommerce emails managed by Creative Mail will inherit the same branded look. Hey, style matters.

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