AutoResponse Plus Feature List

AutoResponse Plus has a huge number of features, all designed to maximize your website's earning potential. And it covers the basics really well too, so if you need an autoresponder that will cope as your business grows, then AutoResponse Plus is the right choice.

General Features

• Your AutoResponse Plus software and data is held entirely on your own web site or server giving you full control over this vital component of your marketing strategy.
• There are no monthly fees, and no 3rd party ads or banners in any of your outgoing messages.
• Use one AutoResponse Plus system to manage autoresponders and broadcasts for multiple domains. Each autoresponder and broadcast that you create has its own "from" name and address to allow for this.
• AutoResponse Plus uses MySQL for data storage - gives super speed and reliability, and keeps data storage costs down, unlike some systems that require database licensing fees.
• Optimized coding techniques hugely reduce database access when sending email to increase your rate of sending.
• Real-time, onscreen progress monitoring of current broadcasts so you can watch your broadcast go out as it happens - and watch live as your open rate increases.
• Background processing of some tasks (eg broadcasting, importing, creating backups) allows you to continue working on other tasks while the process continues.
• Background broadcast and follow-up processing means there is no need to remain online while your messages are being sent. You can log off, turn off your PC and your broadcasts continue in your absence, giving you loads of extra time for other tasks.
• The built-in advanced Javascript menu system is on all screens and gives access to over 50 functions with a single click.

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Personalization and Message Content

• AutoResponse Plus has over 70 tags that you can insert into your messages for personalizing and adding other dynamic content to your messages, subject lines, headers and footers.
• Using the date calculation functions you can automatically generate time-sensitive messages to incentivise your prospects to buy before your offer expires.
• You can add any number of file attachments to follow-up or broadcast messages including graphics, PDF files, ebooks, sound, video, zip files and software.
• If you need to copy an existing autoresponder and all its messages there is a quick clone option that does it in just a few seconds.
• You can easily copy an entire sequence of follow-up messages from one autoresponder to another.
• Check the length of your follow-up and broadcast messages with a single click.
• Insert, for example, "Dear Friend" when your subscriber's real data is not available, giving you a degree of personalization even when you don't have all the details.
• Easily develop a consistent style by creating standard headers and footers for your web site that can be used for all your follow-up messages and broadcasts.
• You can create and manage multiple signature files in a single location. All messages where they are used will automatically change when a signature is changed.
• You can create your own dynamic data tags - easily add information (eg product price) to your messages that you can manage in one central location. If the price changes, simply change the price in one place, and all your messges are automatically and immediately updated.

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Permission-Based Opt-In Confirmation

• Prevent SPAM complaints by requesting subscription confirmation from subscribers - they need to click a link to confirm their subscription. This is an optional feature - you it when you need to.
• The Habeas SWE™ Warrant Mark can help get your legitimate email through indiscriminate SPAM filters (requires Habeas licence).
• IP address and subscription date/time recorded for all form-based subscriptions giving you the ability to manage SPAM complaints.
• Subscribers can easily unsubscribe by clicking an "unsubscribe" link.
• Include optional confirmation of unsubscription which requires your subscriber to click a confirmation button if they click an "unsubscribe" link in one of your messages.
• You can request feedback when someone chooses to unsubscribe, or simply unsubscribe them without asking.

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Data Security and Integrity

• All your AutoResponse Plus data is held on your own web site or server giving full access when you need it.
• For ease of mind, automatic data backups can be scheduled or snapshots can be created whenever you need.
• Automatically or manually de-duplicate your subscriber list to quickly and easily remove duplicate addresses.
• AutoResponse Plus automatically manages bounced undeliverable emails, while allowing a for temporary delivery problems and retrying automatically.
• Single-click removal of "failed" subscribers who have generated multiple bounce-backs and have been flagged as permanently failed.
• All your backup data is held in a single, easy-to-manage standard MySQL file that can easily be restored on a different server.

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Subscriber Management

• AutoResponse Plus can automatically unsubscribe someone from one autoresponder when they subscribe to another.
• Your autoresponder list shows breakdown of subscriber status in real time - active, failed, finished.
• You have flexible options for managing a subscriber when they have finished their sequence - move to another, restart sequence etc.
• You can give your subscribers the opportunity to request the next message in sequence without having to wait. It will be delivered instantly.
• Group editing allows many subscribers settings to be changed simultaneously, saving loads of time when compared with editing them individually.
• All Group tasks show the number of subscribers that will be affected before you peform the action - a great last-minute double-check.
• You can store an unlimited number of single-line custom fields per subscriber.
• Custom field data can be read from your subscriber database and included in messages using special tags. The software will automatically pull out the custom data for each subscriber and include it in your messages.
• In every message. you can give your subscribers the option to self-edit their subscription details.
• You subscribers can manage all their subscriptions on one screen with simple checkboxes.
• Single-click, quick-find facility to quickly and easily locate a subscriber with only part of their email address or name.
• Quickly and easily remove a list of subscribers by paste a list of email addresses to be removed and clicking a button.
• Importing and exporting of CSV text files makes AutoResponse Plus compatible with most other software (eg Excel, Outlook).

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Autoresponders

• AutoResponse Plus allows to to create and run an unlimited number of follow-up autoresponders. Unlike some systems, there are no additional charges for adding extra autoresponders to your system.
• You can add an unlimited number of follow-up messages to each autoresponder.
• Flexible message scheduling for creating immediate responses and follow-up campaigns that can last as long as you want.
• Support subscription by form or email, including "multiple choice" checkbox forms that allow your subscriber to join multiple lists at the same time.
• The HTML code for your subscription forms is generated automatically by AutoResponse Plus. Simply copy and paste the code into your web page editing software and upload your page. AutoResponse Plus handles everything else.
• Popup preview for quick checking of your messages. Messages can be previewed before saving.
• With one click, instantly and easily test an entire follow-up sequence or broadcast messages without having to subscribe and wait for the messages to arrive.
• Each autoresponder has its own reply name and reply address, which can be one the domain where the software is installed or any other domain.
• Autoresponder addresses are whatever@yourdomain.com - you can allow your subscribers to join a list by sending a blank email to the autoresponder's address.
• You can accept subscriptions to multiple autoresponders on one form - your subscribers will automatically be added to all those lists.
• Many form fields can be set as mandatory (eg first name)
• Use dormant status to put an autoresponder to sleep until you're ready to use it again. Existing subscribers will continue to receive their messages until the sequence is complete, but no new subscriptions will be accepted.
• AutoResponse Plus supports automatic capitalization of your subscriber's name when they complete your subscription form.
• The software can automatically split your subscriber's name into first, middle and last names when they complete your subscription form.

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Broadcast Messages

• Send any number of "one-off" broadcast messages to your subscribers.
• Broadcasts do not interfere with scheduled follow-ups - they continue as normal.
• Broadcasts can be scheduled in advance for automatic sending, even when you are offline. Your PC doesn't even need to be switched on.
• It's easy to clone and edit existing broadcasts - no need to re-create similar broadcasts from scratch - great for regular newsletters where most settings are the same each time.
• All your previous broadcasts are saved for later viewing or cloning, and can eadily
• Broadcasts can easily be paused and unpaused during sending with a single click in the broadcast queue manager.

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Track and Measure

• With AutoResponse Plus, you can easily track the source of your subscribers, and group them for easy management. You can quickly see where your subscribers are mostly subscribing.
• Tracks exactly who opens your HTML messages, and how many unique subscribers open each message.
• Single-click filtering allows you to quickly select all subscribers who opened a particular message for further targetting.
• You can track the number of click-throughs on your embedded links.
• And single-click filtering lets you select and target those responsive subscribers.
• Automatically logs every follow-up and broadcast message that each subscriber has been sent.

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Style and Customization

• With AutoResponse Plus you can allow your subscriber to choose plain text or HTML email or set them to receive whatever style you choose to send them.
• You can customize many of the subscriber-facing web pages such as subscription confirmation pages. Multiple confirmation pages can even be set for the same autoresponder or list.

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RSS

The RSS features are only available if you buy the RSS Upgrade ($67) for your AutoResponse Plus system.

• Deliver your follow-up and broadcast content by RSS feed.
• Avoids problems with SPAM filtering and ensures 100% deliverabilty.
• Your RSS messages can be fully personalized.
• Popup preview of your RSS messages.
• Counting of RSS message delivery and open-rate.
• Single-click filtering on who opened an RSS follow-up or broadcast message.
• Logging for each subscribers of RSS messages sent to them.
• Automatic notification to you when someone subscribes to your RSS feed.
• Custom "subscribe success" pages for RSS subscribers.

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Miscellaneous Features

• Optional CC and BCC of all follow-up and broadcast messages sent by the system.
• Optionally have the system email you when someone subscribes or unsubscribes.
• The My Record page stores information about your company that can easily be inserted into messages with simple tags and mangaged in one location. When you change the information, all messages that use it are automatically updated immediately too.
• Integrates with other software by accepting "remote control" emails to add and remove subscribers, and set fields and options such as name, format preference etc.
• AutoResponse Plus will email your login details to you if you have forgotten them.
• Real-time onscreen display of currently running background tasks.
• Bulit-in choker allows you to limit the number of emails that are sent at one time. This allows you to adhere to web host policies automatically, with no intervention from you.
• Bulti-in mail test allows you to check the send speed of your server's email system.
• Intelligent monitoring of scheduled tasks such as follow-up mailings. Automatically recovers from server downtime with no intervention from you.

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