In this tutorial you learn, how to setup a newsletter based on a guestlist for your project.
When designing the tool we focused on permission based newsletters.
Start with defining a role for the members
Give the role
And set the access privileges
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On the community tab click on manage guest lists or create new guest list
In the guest list settings
Add the email addresses of your guests to the form.
You can select one or more roles which the invitees get, once they accepted the invitation
After saving the guest list you can see which guests have
By expanding the pending, accepted and rejected lists you will get an email overview of the three categories.
Use these addresses to reach out to your community!
Examples
Send the invites with status "pending" an email to tell them they are invited. They can accept the invitation with this link: https://www.brainstore.com/account/memberships
Send out newsletters to those who have the status "accepted"
Leave those alone with status "rejected"