Sendslay

Features

What Sendslay does today.

Every piece here exists because leaving it out costs you inbox placement, or costs you a customer. The last two panels are what is not built yet — we would rather you knew before you imported a list than after.

Campaigns

Writing and sending the message.

  • HTML editor — write here or paste your own markup
  • Merge tags with fallbacks — write {{firstName|there}} and an empty field renders your word, not a gap
  • Preview and send a test to yourself first
  • Plain-text version generated automatically
  • Send now or schedule for later
  • A sent campaign can no longer be edited — the record stays true

A/B testing

Try versions on a slice of the list; the winner goes to the rest.

  • Test two versions on a slice — you choose how big that slice is
  • You choose how long to wait before the winner is decided
  • Winner picked by opens or by clicks — clicks is the stronger signal
  • The winner then goes to everyone who was not in the test
  • No opens at all? Version A goes out — the campaign never stalls
  • Not yet: statistical significance, and picking the winner by revenue

Segments

Rules that decide who a campaign actually goes to.

  • Rules on email, first and last name, and your own custom fields
  • Status, and which groups someone is in
  • Opened or clicked in the last N days — and the reverse, which is how a win-back is built
  • Subscribed date; order count and total spend once your shop sends them
  • Count the matches before you send
  • A campaign can take a segment as its audience

Automations

A series that waits, checks and continues on its own.

  • Steps: send an email, wait a while, or check a condition
  • Triggers you can use today: someone is added to your audience, or joins a group
  • Order and cart triggers are ready for when your shop sends us those events
  • Every subscriber's run is tracked on its own
  • Not yet: a report per automation, and triggers for a field changing or a date arriving

Local send times

The same campaign arriving at 9 AM everywhere.

  • Pick an hour; each timezone gets its own wave
  • Uses the timezone stored on the subscriber record
  • Not yet: working out a subscriber's timezone on our own

Signup forms

Collecting a list you are allowed to mail.

  • A hosted page you can link from anywhere
  • A confirmation email before anyone is added — double opt-in
  • Consent recorded: source, date and IP
  • New signups can drop straight into a group, which can start an automation

Audience

Everything about who you send to.

  • Subscribers with custom fields of your own
  • Groups, with a subscriber in as many as you like
  • CSV and Excel import with duplicate detection
  • Consent recorded on import — source, date and IP
  • Suppression list that survives re-imports

Domain authentication

Proving the mail is really from you.

  • DKIM keys generated for your domain
  • SPF, DMARC and custom MAIL FROM records supplied
  • Re-check DNS from the dashboard the moment your records propagate
  • Free mailbox providers blocked as sending domains
  • Sending stays blocked until the domain verifies

Preflight

The checks that run before a campaign is allowed to leave.

  • Sender chosen, and its domain actually verified
  • Audience not empty once suppressed addresses are removed
  • Subject line and body present
  • Your postal address on file — CAN-SPAM requires it in the footer
  • Your own email address confirmed
  • Recipients within your daily limit, and sending not paused
  • Warnings for a missing preheader or a very short subject

Deliverability

The part most tools leave to you.

  • One-click unsubscribe with RFC 8058 List-Unsubscribe headers
  • Unsubscribes honoured without a login, a reason or a form
  • Suppression only ever hardens — it never returns to mailable
  • Postal address rendered into every footer
  • Bounces and complaints suppressed automatically, and sending pauses if the rates climb
  • Per-account daily send limit enforced at dispatch

Sending infrastructure

How a large campaign actually goes out.

  • Sent through Amazon SES from your own verified domain
  • Queued and paced rather than fired all at once
  • Failed sends retried without duplicating anyone
  • Each recipient's state tracked individually
  • Anyone who unsubscribes mid-send is skipped, not mailed

Reporting

What we can tell you after you press send.

  • Recipients, unsubscribes, and delivered, bounced and complaint counts
  • Opens and clicks, with opens from automated scanners filtered out
  • A per-recipient list showing who was delivered, opened, clicked or bounced
  • CSV export of that recipient list
  • Not yet: revenue attributed back to the campaign that produced it

Workspace

Running it with other people.

  • Team members with Admin, Manager and User roles
  • Every change to senders, domains, campaigns and team recorded server-side
  • Your plan and daily sending limit visible in settings
  • Coming soon: viewing that audit trail yourself

Developer

Wiring Sendslay into your own systems.

  • API keys with per-key scopes
  • Not yet: outbound webhooks for delivery events
  • Not yet: published API documentation

See it with your own list.

Create an account, verify your domain, and send a campaign.

Screens shown with sample data.