SureContact Now Supports Transactional Emails & Countdown Timers

The SureContact team has added support for transactional emails and countdown timers to its AI-powered CRM and email marketing automation platform.

New Features

Let’s take a quick look at what’s new in SureContact:

• Send Transactional Emails: In addition to marketing and broadcast emails, SureContact now also allows you to send transactional emails, such as order confirmations, password resets and order updates. These emails still reach contacts who have unsubscribed from marketing emails because they contain important information. However, they are blocked for contacts who have bounced, are invalid, or have reported spam. Transactional emails carry no unsubscribe link or header, and tracking is disabled by default. Sequences remain marketing-only.
• Countdown Timer in Email Builder: You can now add a customizable, live countdown timer to your emails. For example, you can use it to create a sense of urgency for a flash sale. Simply drag the new Countdown element into your email and set the deadline date and time. You can change the digit, label and background colours, sizes, and whether days and labels are shown. You can also customize the text that appears once the deadline has passed. As the timer is sent as an animated image, it works in email clients that do not allow scripts or animations.
• Calculated Dates in Emails: You can now add calculated dates to emails, such as {{today+10d}}.
• Custom Preference Pages: Your custom preference page can now offer all the options available on the built-in Manage Preferences page.
• Spam Protection: Emails from unknown senders that are marked as spam will no longer create a contact. You can add senders or domains to either an allow or deny list.

In other news, you can now filter deals in much more detail with SureContact, save the views you use most often and export deals to CSV. You can also now set up certain fields as mandatory before a deal can move to a stage, and preview deal imports before they run.