What's new in MailCheap, newest first. Customers see each update in their dashboard too.
New subscribers get the confirmation email or your welcome email, not both. Both switches now work from their own page: turning one on says the other turns off, and one save does both.
The API and AI assistants do the same by sending both changes in one request.
Each contact's menu, at the end of their row, changes their status: mark an active contact dormant to stop your issues to them for a while, mark a dormant or pending one active, unsubscribe them, or resubscribe someone who unsubscribed.
Resubscribing someone, or making active a contact who never clicked your confirmation email, asks you to confirm they asked for your emails, and MailCheap keeps who did it and when. Bounced and complained contacts keep their status.
The API and AI assistants do the same with update_contact_status.
Settings, then Design, shows eight themes, each with your newsletter's website and one of your emails in it. A click applies one, and a message lets you undo it.
Customize changes its colors, fonts, heading weight, corners, shadow and spacing, with your website and an email shown as you go.
Your website, the pages your emails link to and your emails all follow it. Your AI assistant can set it too, through the API or MCP.
Settings opens on an overview of your newsletter: a card for each section, with where it stands, like double opt-in on or your website's address.
A card opens its section's page, with its own save bar. Design is one of them.
The help center explains each part of MailCheap: setting up your newsletter, contacts and imports, writing, sending and scheduling, the warm-up, deliverability, plans and your account.
Open it from your account menu in the dashboard, or from the site's header. Notes in the dashboard, like the warm-up's, link to the article that explains them.
Point at a picture in the editor and its toolbar shows inside its top edge: left, center or right, Alt and delete. On a phone, tap the picture.
Alt text describes the picture to screen readers, to readers whose email app blocks pictures, and to search engines on your newsletter's website. It saves as you type.
Your emails and your website keep each picture where you put it.
Point at a block in the editor and a grip shows to its left. Drag it, and a line shows where the block lands. Click the grip to select the block.
With the keyboard, Cmd+Shift+Up and Down move the block holding the cursor (Ctrl+Shift on Windows). Undo puts it back.
The ⋯ menu at the top of a campaign starts with Send a test email and Preview, whichever step you're on.
A test email goes to your own address, its subject starting with [Test]. Nobody else gets it, and it counts toward your plan's emails.
Schedule opens a calendar with today marked, the other months a click away, and times every 15 minutes.
It starts at the time your last issue went out, and says so under the date until you pick another.
Preview's Mobile view shows Gmail on an iPhone, with your issue on top of the inbox: its sender, subject and preview text. Tap it to open the email, then scroll it as in Gmail.
Desktop shows the email in a mail app's window, as wide as your screen allows. Escape closes the preview.
A campaign goes Write, Review, Send. Review lists the email's own checks: the subject and its length, preview text, content, unsubscribe link, size, postal address, sender and a test sent.
What would stop a send shows when you press Send or Schedule. A send goes to everyone on your list, unless a filter narrows it to your most engaged contacts.
