The CMS TYPO3 extension repository already offers a few plugins that can be used for managing the registration of users for a newsletter service on a website. However, in response to the growing expectations of the market and our customers, we have developed a mechanism that meets all such expectations and allows us (and anyone choosing to use our plugin) to freely extend our (and their) set of tools with new functionalities and options.

What does our extension offer?

Registration and unregistration in Ajax mode

If you don’t prefer Ajax in your settings, you can choose the standard mode with page reloading.

Suspending a user’s subscription for any period of time

The user can choose either to cancel his subscription entirely or suspend it for a freely specified period of time, e.g. 3, 6 or 9 months (or any other period). This approach allows the user to periodically suspend his subscription instead of cancelling it entirely, which gives you some chance of not losing the user forever. 

Using Swift Mailer

The plugin can be used with the TYPO3-integrated API Swift Mailer.

HTML templates

All views (including e-mail notifications) can be freely customised using the HTML templates supplied with the plugin. Images from e-mail templates are automatically set in the message.

Multiple languages

With the use of special subparts in the templates, managing multiple language versions is now easier.

Configuration from TCA or through TypoScript

This solution is the optimum way of freely setting the plugin in various parts of your website. All the settings can be configured through TypoScript.

Notifications

The plugin allows for notifying a particular person of new releases of the newsletter. This functionality is useful for campaign analysts and impatient sales representatives.

Statistics (an additional module) – coming soon!

As an extension and an alternative to e-mail notifications, we offer an additional module (to be available soon) with statistics, where you will be able to keep track of all user activity (registration, unregistration, suspension) for any period of time. It’s a perfect tool for anyone working in marketing.

Newsletter categories (an additional module) – coming soon!

This module allows the users to choose the topic/category of the e-mails they wish to receive in the future. It’s the ideal way to personalise the content sent to appropriate groups of users.

Extendability

With the use of hooks, the plugin can be freely extended as necessary for any website without interference with the source code.

The evo_newsletter is already available in the repository typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/evo_newsletter/current/ together with its full documentation.