Gist All-In-One Marketing – Live Chat, Popups, vs Simple SMTP

Gist All-In-One Marketing is the ultimate free plugin for WordPress if you want to grow your email list, manage your contacts, and send marketing emails all through Gist’s free CRM. The free plugin includes lead capture tools like popups, live chat, chatbots, knowledge base, email marketing and an integrated free contact database (CRM). Once you grow your email list you can also send email campaigns and manage your digital ads through Gist. All these features work immediately with no developer help needed. A few of our exhaustive features that will help you capture more leads and grow your email list: Popups: To grow your email list Create beautiful popups using professionally designed and proven to convert, prebuilt popup and optin templates that you can customize to start converting leads in seconds or build your own with a completely blank canvas using easy-to-use drag and drop popup builder. You can choose from five types of WordPress forms: Inline form: A form you can embed directly on your site pages Popup modals: Center screen popups that appear on top of page content Top banners: Small banners at the top of the page Slide-in boxes: Small boxes that slide in from the side or bottom of the page Welcome mats: Full-screen call to actions that shows when visitors land on your site Using our exit intent technology, advanced page-level targeting, powerful segmentation engine and behavior automation, you can show the perfect popup offer to the right people at the exact right time and maximize your website conversions. If you’re already using a WordPress form tool on your site, Gist will automatically capture form submissions and add them to your contact database so you can manage them in one place. The plugin supports the popular form plugins like Gravity Forms, MailChimp Forms, Ninja Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7, and more. Live Chat & Chatbots: Let your site visitors talk to you Gist allows you to embed a free live chat widget to your WordPress site and empower your customers with the quickest and most effective form of contact. Research shows that live chat can boost sales by as much as 40%. Next time your customer faces an issue, they won’t go to the competitors or waste time — they’ll contact you. Using the plugin, you can set up the following WordPress live chat modules: – Support live chat: Answer questions your customers might have about your business through live chat – Sales live chat: Help answer questions your potential customers might have through live chat – Automated chatbot: Set up an automated chatbot to respond to your website visitors when you aren’t online to respond to live chat messages And Gist offers free iOS, Android apps to stay connected with your prospects and customers while on the move. Email Marketing Send beautiful looking emails to your contacts. Our email builder allows you to create responsive and stunning emails and analyze your email performance to see how each contact interacted with your email. You can send an automated email when someone fills out a form, submits a popup form, or sends a message on live chat. Automated emails are helpful for engaging with your subscribers and customers at the time that matters most: when they’re engaging with you. All emails you send including open and click rates, will be automatically logged in the integrated WordPress CRM so you can see exactly who opens and clicks your emails. You’ll be able to do things like: Collect subscribers from any page with Gist’s popup forms Identify your contacts and their time zones Apply tags and trigger automations when one of your contacts visits a page Add trigger to kick off automations when someone clicks a link See exactly what pages a contact has visited and when Score leads using page visit analytics And that’s in addition to all the other email and automation features that come with Gist, like: Facebook Custom Audiences and Facebook Lead Ads Autoresponders, campaigns, broadcasts, newsletters, and more Easy segmentation, personalization, and dynamic Liquid content An amazing visual workflow builder Advanced integrations to track revenue, fix cart abandonment, and beyond Person-based (not list-based) contact management and built-in list pruning Built-in Analytics: To improve your conversions Built-in analytics makes it clear which pages and traffic sources drive the most conversions so you can keep doing what’s working. Full Plugin Feature List Dashboard: A central hub for your marketing analytics. Learn which forms, popups, and live chat modules get the most submissions and pages and traffic sources drive the most conversions. Popups: Easily create popups and optin forms in minutes using Gist’s drag and drop form builder. Live Chat: Add a live chat widget to your WordPress site so visitors can chat with you. Email Marketing: Use the drag and drop editor to design and send email campaigns. Marketing Automation: Send an automated email whenever someone fills out a form or popup or sends a message on live chat. Site Tracking: A single simple database for contact management. Knowledge base – Build a powerful knowledge base of information so customers can get answers faster. WordPress CRM: A single simple database for contact management. Integrations: Easily connect to MailChimp, Shopify, Magento and more. Support Having trouble with the plugin? Browse our Gist Help Center page for help documentation and support. If you have any more questions, start a live chat session with our support from within the app.

Adds a simple, no-fuss SMTP settings to your WordPress installation that lets you define custom settings, which is especially useful for hosts with no control over the php mail functionality. If logging is enabled, a new segment in the settings panel will show up with a 30-day overview of recent emails, and will automatically prune older logs. Please see the FAQ if you want a more permanent solution. For more information, please see the project wiki on GitHub. Environment and constant overriding (optional) This plugin will prefer environmental and constant-stored values over the plugin-saved equivalent settings, making it easier to use this plugin via deployment. These can be either stored in your systems env setup, or in wp-config.php as define( 'SEE_BELOW', 'your_value_here' );. Accepted Parameters SMTP_HOST (string) Mail server hostname. SMTP_PORT (integer) Port address (usually 25, 465 or 587). SMTP_AUTH (integer, 1 or 0) Pass below credentials to your mail server. SMTP_USER (string) The mail username for this account. SMTP_PASS (string) The password for the mailer account. SMTP_FROM (string) Enforce all emails come from this email address. SMTP_FROMNAME (string) Enforce all emails to have a certain email name. SMTP_SEC (string) Use a particular email security method (accepts ‘def’ (default), ‘ssl’, ‘tls’ and ‘off’). SMTP_NOVERIFYSSL (boolean) Disable validation of the SMTP server certificate (not recommended). SMTP_LOG (boolean) Controls the logging capability and visibility. SMTP_DISABLE (boolean) Disables the mailer. They will still be logged if enabled, but won’t send out. It is recommended to store at least SMTP_PASS in your wp-config.php file (with the correct file permissions set). If the openssl extension is available, the plugin will attempt to encrypt the password in the database.