Send your first newsletter

A newsletter is written once, checked, and sent to a group of members. Every issue is also kept on your club's website, in the News page, as a record of what members were told.

Write it

1. Open Newsletters and press New issue. It starts from a simple layout, not a blank page.
2. Give it a subject. The subject is also the title in your public archive.
3. Build the body from blocks: a heading, text, a picture, a button, a divider, "coming up" (your published events), a member's own dues line, and a signature. Each block has Up, Down and Remove buttons, and Add a block adds another. The text block has a toolbar for bold, italic, a link and lists.
4. A few seconds after you stop typing, the draft saves itself, and the last ten saves are kept under Saved copies, with a Restore button for each.

Check who will receive it

The card Who will receive it counts the members who will get this issue, and names every member who will not, with the reason. "All members" reaches every active member the kind of message allows; "Opted in" narrows it to the newsletter list; "Overdue" to members whose dues are overdue. A newsletter never reaches someone who has opted out or never agreed. See why a member is not receiving email.

Look at it

Save and preview shows the message at desktop and phone widths, and its plain-text version. Send a test to (your address) sends the real message to you alone. See send yourself a test.

Send it

The big button says Send now to 38 members (or however many). Sending is final. The list is worked out at that moment, and the issue then becomes a record that cannot be edited or deleted: its text is what members received. To send later, see schedule a newsletter.

Afterwards

The issue appears in the News page of your site, unless it was an essential notice. The page for the issue shows a send log of every recipient and the result. If the screen says it cannot send, read the sentence: it names the one thing to do. See why you cannot publish or email yet.