Manually trigger automations by bulk tagging
David Rotter
What: Function to manually trigger an automation by bulk-tagging contacts.
Why: Launches, Promos, Campaigns, Segment sequences.
Situation: Currently, bulk tagging does not add the contacts to an automation, even if "tag added" is set as the trigger.
How:
Option 1: Create an option in preferences, "Allow bulk tagging to trigger automations."
Option 2: Enable this by default and display a warning when bulk tagging "Adding this tag will add XXX contacts to the automation YYYY. Do you really want to tag these contacts?"
Context:
Currently, there is no way to manually trigger an automation, other than tagging each contact individually. (which is unfeasible for any decent number of contacts)
This is a major downside of Mailpoet since one of the most important use cases for automations are launch campaigns that must be manually triggered.
The solution above would make Mailpoet much more attractive for email marketers who currently cannot use mailpoet for the sole reason that manually starting automations is an absolutely crucial function for any email-marketing app.
This function is super easy to implement and would elevate Mailpoet to a completely new level.
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Lee Busch
Over a year and no official comments on this essential fix? That's a pity. I've had to move some clients to FluentCRM to get the features that Mailpoet lacks.
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Kristian
Just built an automation for a client and they said it doesn't work. Noticed bulk tagging doesn't activate the automation. Wow, not good! Please, this is really a needed feature and as Lee Busch said, feels more like a bug than an intentional feature.
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Lee Busch
This is really describing a bug or poor implementation that should be rectified. An automation triggered by adding a Tag should always trigger if a Tag is added, no matter how the Tag is added. Otherwise, it's not really an automation.
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Luke Breen
Lee Busch I completely agree! It's not an automation if it requires a huge amount of manual input!
MailPoet need to sort out this problem, as it's impossible to actually use the Automations properly when you have a list with thousands of subscribers in it!