MailPoet – Newsletters, vs Quillrush Newsletter Studio for Sendy

Use MailPoet to create, send, manage, and grow your email marketing campaigns – all without leaving your WordPress dashboard. Our newsletter builder integrates perfectly with WordPress so any website owner can create beautiful emails from scratch, or by using our responsive templates that display flawlessly across all devices. Schedule your newsletters, send them right away, or set up new blog post notifications to send automatically, in just a few clicks. Trusted by 500,000 WordPress websites since 2011. With a free plan to get started, and scaling paid plans with enhanced functionality available, MailPoet is an email marketing solution suitable for both beginners and proficient email marketers. Visit our website for more information on plans and pricing All features Create and add a newsletter subscription form to your website Manage your subscribers and subscriber lists in WordPress Build and send newsletters with WordPress Create automatic emails to send new post notifications Send automated welcome emails Behavior and interest-based subscriber segmentation options Pre-built and customizable email and subscription form templates Multiple subscription form placements: below pages, fixed bar, popup, slide-in, shortcode, on exit intent WooCommerce emails: abandoned cart, first purchase, specific product, product category, order status change, review added Customize WooCommerce transactional emails Automate subscriber management (add/remove from list, add/remove tags, update subscriber data) (paid plan required) Create custom automation triggers and actions (paid plan required) Branch your automations with if/else conditions to improve engagement (paid plan required) Reliable email delivery with MailPoet Sending Service (available for free – plan required) Basic engagement statistics (available for free) and detailed engagement statistics (paid plan required) Multi-condition segmentation (paid plan required) Google Analytics integration (paid plan required) Support via our Knowledge Base and Community Forums (available for free), and Priority Customer Support (paid plan required). Why choose MailPoet Easy to use WordPress newsletter builder Beautiful templates that work perfectly across all devices No configuration needed: works out of the box Manage everything within your WordPress dashboard Higher delivery rates with the MailPoet Sending Service GDPR compliant Free plan for small senders or those just starting out Advanced functionality available to help achieve growth. WooCommerce emails Promote your business, sell more products, and enhance your customer service with MailPoet’s WooCommerce features. Use the automated email options to: Welcome your new customers when they make their first purchase Upsell by sending emails to customers who purchased a specific product or from a specific product category Convert more customers by sending a series of abandoned cart emails Re-engage customers who haven’t made a purchase in a while with personalized offers (paid plan required) Follow up with customers who left a review to encourage more engagement (paid plan required). And with WooCommerce-specific segmentation options, you’ll be able to send targeted emails to your customers based on criteria such as their country, the number of orders they’ve placed, how much they’ve spent, and if they have an active product subscription (powered by WooCommerce Subscriptions) or membership (powered by WooCommerce Memberships). In addition, you’ll also be able to increase brand recognition by customizing your WooCommerce transactional emails. Create a unified brand experience by changing the layout, colors, and fonts used in your emails, as well as adding any images or additional information to them. MailPoet Sending Service The MailPoet Sending Service is free if you only have a few subscribers, with scaling plans available thereafter. Read more. Sending emails and newsletters with your host is not a good idea. You might face sending speed limitations and see your emails ending up in the spam box. To help your sending go without a hitch, we’ve created an advanced email delivery infrastructure built for WordPress. Our technology allows you to: Reach inboxes, not spam boxes Send your emails super fast (up to 50,000 emails per hour) Maintain your sender reputation and improve engagement levels with automated bounce and complaint handling. Stop sending to non-deliverable and complaining addresses, automatically Authenticate your emails (with SPF and DKIM) to improve deliverability and avoid spam boxes. The MailPoet Sending Service is very easy to set up, you just have to enter a key in your WordPress dashboard and you’re all set! MailPoet plans and pricing MailPoet is available to download for free. Our free download includes all of the features listed above (with the exception of those indicating a plan requirement) under the following criteria: Up to 1,000 subscribers MailPoet branding in emails Send emails with your own sending method (host, SendGrid, Amazon SES, etc). Or if you opt for a MailPoet plan, you’ll get access to the MailPoet Sending Service. A free plan is available for those who want to get started with a few subscribers and would like to use the MailPoet Sending Service. And our paid plans offer features and functionality for those with larger lists who are looking to grow their business using email marketing. Take a look at our pricing page for full details on what’s included in each plan. Before you install Please note: Multisite support is limited Review our minimum requirements. Translations Albanian Arabic Catalan Czech Danish Dutch Dutch (Formal) French (Canada) French (France) German German (Switzerland) German (Formal) Greek Hindi Italian Japanese Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) Swedish Turkish Ukrainian We welcome experienced translators to translate directly on our Transifex project. Please note that any translations submitted via the “Translating WordPress” website will not work. Security Our repository is public on GitHub. Have a question for us? Reach us at security@ our domain, or report security issues to our Bug Bounty program. Use of 3rd Party Services MailPoet uses the following services that are necessary for its full functionality: Translate WordPress.com – used to download translations for the plugin. To improve user experience, MailPoet may use the following 3rd party libraries if the Load 3rd-party libraries setting is enabled: Google Fonts – used in Form Editor which you can use to customize your forms, and in the Email Editor to style emails. This can be individually disabled by a filter. TOS and Privacy Policy WordPress.com – used for searching in Knowledge Base with the help of AI. Mixpanel – used to send data about the usage of the MailPoet plugin when you agree with sharing usage data with us. TOS and Privacy Policy Satismeter – used to ask for feedback. TOS and Privacy Policy Crowdsignal – used to load our deactivation poll to improve our plugin. TOS and Privacy Policy Loading all these libraries is disabled by default. The option can be enabled in the MailPoet’s Settings > Advanced > Load 3rd-party libraries.

📧 Quillrush Newsletter Studio for Sendy turns your WordPress dashboard into a full-blown newsletter creation studio for the Sendy + Amazon SES stack. Drag your latest posts into a beautiful responsive HTML email, pick the Sendy lists/segments to ship to, and send via your self-hosted Sendy installation, which forwards every message through Amazon SES. No HTML coding. No external SaaS. No paid tier. ⚠️ Requires a self-hosted Sendy install backed by Amazon SES. This plugin is the WordPress front-end — it does not replace Sendy or SES. If you don’t have Sendy + SES set up yet, see sendy.co and aws.amazon.com/ses. ✨ Headline features 🎨 Visual newsletter builder — drag posts in, see the rendered email update live. 📨 Two newsletter formats per campaign — The Roundup (subscriber-facing) and The Insider Brief (editorial pitch for media & partners). 📋 Auto-fetched Sendy lists & segments — pulled live via the Sendy API, shown as checkboxes with active subscriber counts. Cached 10 minutes; one-click refresh. 🧠 Remembers your last selection — the lists you sent to last time are pre-checked next time. 🔍 Infinite-scroll post search — AJAX-loads posts in batches of 10 as you scroll. 🖼️ Smart hero image — uses your uploaded banner if present, otherwise falls back to the first post’s featured image. 📱 Mobile-first responsive layout — 2 columns on desktop, single column on mobile ( /scheduled.php?i=BRAND_ID so queued campaigns process without a system cron. Show Article Excerpt — checkbox. Insert a 20-word excerpt between the post title and the “Read More” button. 🎨 Footer & Social Settings Footer Logo URL — logo shown in the dark footer band. Copyright Text — footer copyright line. {year} is replaced with the current year. Custom Footer Text — textarea, HTML allowed. Shown in a highlighted box above the footer in The Roundup. Newlines → automatically. “Read More Articles” Link — optional link below the post grid. Instagram URL / LinkedIn URL / X (Twitter) URL / YouTube URL — social icons in footer. ✉️ The Insider Brief — Template Texts (used only by The Insider Brief format) Greeting — e.g. Hi [First Name], Intro Paragraph — lead paragraph above the hero story (HTML allowed). Hero Section Label — small label above the hero (e.g. Hero Story). Grid Section Heading — e.g. 🔍 What Else We're Seeing “Why This Matters” Heading + Body Collaboration Heading + Body — e.g. 📩 For Media & Collaborations + CTA bullets and contact info (HTML allowed). About Us Heading + Body — centered About block above the footer. 📅 Send modes 💾 Save as Draft in Sendy — POSTs to create-campaign.php with send_campaign=0. Campaign appears in your Sendy dashboard as a draft. WP logs status: draft. 🚀 Send Immediately — POSTs to create-campaign.php with send_campaign=1. Sendy queues + dispatches via SES. WP logs status: sent. If Auto-Trigger Cron is on, also hits scheduled.php?i=BRAND_ID. ⏰ Schedule — stored as a qrnss_campaign post with status scheduled. WordPress registers a one-off wp_schedule_single_event for the chosen datetime. When the event fires, the plugin sends via Sendy. Datetime picker is timezone-aware and uses your WP timezone setting. 🛟 Failure handling Failed sends never silently disappear: ❌ Red admin notice at the top of the Campaigns screen. 📋 Exact Sendy error in the Error column. 🔁 One-click Retry Send button (CSRF-nonced). ♻️ Auto-recovery — overdue scheduled campaigns automatically send on next admin page-load. 🗄️ Campaign history (CPT) Every campaign is stored as a qrnss_campaign custom-post-type entry. Admin columns: Title — subject line. Status — draft (grey), scheduled (yellow), sent (green), failed (red). Scheduled For — datetime if scheduled. Error — Sendy error message if the send failed. 🔌 Sendy API endpoints used All requests go straight to your own self-hosted Sendy installation at the URL you set in Settings. The plugin never talks to any third-party SaaS — Sendy itself fans out to Amazon SES from your host. api/lists/get-lists.php — fetch lists for the Create Newsletter screen (cached 10 min). Sends: api_key, brand_id. api/subscribers/active-subscriber-count.php — per-list subscriber counts. Sends: api_key, list_id. api/campaigns/create.php — Save as Draft, Send Immediately, scheduled fire. Sends: api_key, from_name, from_email, reply_to, title, subject, html_text, plain_text, list_ids, brand_id, send_campaign. scheduled.php (your Sendy host) — only when Auto-Trigger Cron is ticked. Sends: i=BRAND_ID query param. 🔒 Requirements WordPress 5.8 or higher (tested up to 7.0). PHP 7.4 or higher. A reasonably recent self-hosted Sendy installation. Amazon SES configured inside Sendy (out of scope for this plugin).