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Newsletter Beta Details

As a Pika Pro, you can join the Pika newsletter beta. Keep in mind this is a beta period for the newsletter feature and we’re still working out the kinks. If you’re interested in the beta, please contact us. If you’d rather be notified when the beta period is over and the newsletter feature becomes available to all Pika Pros, feel free to let us know.

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Enabling your newsletter

Once we have made the beta newsletter feature available to your account, visit Settings > Labs and switch on the Email newsletters link.

Sending a newsletter

When publishing a new post, click Email this post as a newsletter before hitting the Publish post button.

You can also send a newsletter from any posts that were published in the past week, but had not yet been sent as a newsletter. To do this, edit the post and click Email this post as a newsletter before hitting the Update button.

When does a newsletter get sent?

After publishing a post that has been set up to be sent as a newsletter, the newsletter will be scheduled for sending about 15 minutes later. On your Dashboard you can see newsletters that have been scheduled to be sent and either send them immediately or cancel them.

Can I add subscribers by importing email addresses from another system?

Yes! Visit Dashboard > Newsletter and click the three dots menu next to the Subscribers area of the page. Any CSV file with a header of "email" or "email address" should work. If the CSV also includes a "subscription date" or "subscribed_at" column, we will store that date as well. You can also import a plain text file with one email per line. We have tested importing the exports from a few major providers, but let us know if you have any problems.

Can export my subscriber email addresses?

Yes! Visit Dashboard > Newsletter and click the three dots menu next to the Subscribers area of the page. The export will be a CSV file with two columns: email and subscribed_at.

Can I update a newsletter’s contents after it has been scheduled to be sent?

Yes. Any updates that you make to the scheduled post before the newsletter is sent will be reflected in the newsletter.

Can I send content in a newsletter that is different from it’s post?

No. Our newsletter feature only supports sending the post’s content.

Do you support custom CSS for the newsletter?

We are not offering the ability to customize the newsletter’s CSS. We are doing the best that we can to make the newsletter look like your site, though we also are not incorporating your site’s custom CSS in the newsletter’s design. The world of designing for HTML email is very complicated. Pika is primarily a web publishing platform, and we are doing our best to keep the newsletter feature as simple as possible.