Add-on: Email Editor
$49/year
Your subscriber emails, your brand — no template files, no code.
Every email Benecaster sends should look like it came from you.
Core Benecaster sends lifecycle emails — welcome, token reset, tier change, migration sequences — using the plugin’s default templates. Email Editor gives you a visual drag-and-drop editor for every one of those templates: your colors, your logo, your copy, your episode artwork. Preview exactly what subscribers will see before anything goes out. Test-send with real show data. No PHP template files. No digging through plugin code.
Email Editor also unlocks two email types that don’t exist in core at all: episode notifications (automatic emails to subscribers when an episode becomes available to their tier) and broadcast emails (send to all subscribers on a selected tier, with full opt-out support).
Every email template. One editor.
Emails you can edit:
- Subscriber welcome (with personal RSS URL)
- Token reset notification
- Tier change notification
- Migration welcome and reminder sequence
- Migration completion confirmation
- License expiry warnings (admin)
- Feed health alerts (admin)
- Broadcast emails — send to all subscribers on a selected tier; full opt-out support
Episode Notifications (optional, per show):
Enable episode notifications and Benecaster automatically emails subscribers when an episode becomes available to their tier. Two modes:
- Template mode: configure a reusable template once; all episode notifications generate automatically with episode-specific merge tags
- Per-episode compose: write a custom email per episode from within the publish flow; pre-populated from your template, editable before sending
Editor features:
- Drag-and-drop block editor
- Merge tag library with autocomplete — type
{{anywhere to open the picker - Live preview mode
- Test send (to yourself or a colleague, with real show data)
- Per-show customization — different branding per show on Multi-Show plans
- Template versioning — revert to any previous version
- Template reset to plugin defaults
- Branding: colors, fonts, header image, logo, custom footer
- Email preview text (preheader) — auto-populated from episode description on episode notifications
- List-Unsubscribe headers on all subscriber-facing emails — Gmail, Yahoo, and Apple Mail surface a native Unsubscribe button, reducing spam complaints
- UTM campaign tracking on all episode and broadcast links — GA4 reads these automatically
Notify subscribers the moment an episode is available to their tier.
Per-tier release notifications fire when each tier’s availability date passes — not when the episode publishes. A Gold-tier subscriber gets their notification when the episode unlocks for Gold; a free-tier subscriber gets theirs on the standard release date. No extra configuration.
The default episode notification template includes a player card (episode artwork with a play button overlay), a Listen Now CTA, the episode title, show byline, episode description, and a “Listen in your podcast app” button linking to the subscriber’s personal RSS URL.
Subscriber-specific content, automatically.
| Tag | Output |
|---|---|
{{subscriber_name}} |
Subscriber’s display name |
{{rss_url}} |
Subscriber’s personal RSS feed URL |
{{episode_title}} |
Episode title |
{{episode_description}} |
Episode short description |
{{episode_url}} |
Episode page URL |
{{listen_url}} |
Subscriber’s personal feed URL |
{{tier_name}} |
Name of the subscriber’s tier |
{{availability_date}} |
Date this tier’s access to the episode opened |
{{player_image}} |
Full player card: episode artwork + play button, linked to episode |
{{episode_magic_link}} |
Tokenized episode link — subscriber accesses episode without logging in (30-day expiry) |
Full merge tag catalog in the Email Editor settings — every available tag listed with a description.
Even More Powerful With
- Analytics Dashboard — open rates and click-through rates per episode notification appear in the Analytics Dashboard, powered by Email Editor’s tracking pixel. See which episode emails your subscribers open — and which they don’t.
- Guest Manager — the
{{episode_guests}}merge tag populates episode notification emails with the guest list for that episode automatically. “Featuring Alice Smith and Bob Jones” with no extra steps. - Migration Wizard — customize every email in the migration sequence with Email Editor’s visual editor: your branding, your copy, full merge tag support, and a test-send before anything reaches subscribers.
Requires / Works with
- Requires: Benecaster with any paid plan
- SMTP: Email Editor sends via WordPress
wp_mail()— works with any SMTP provider. For shows with large subscriber lists, a transactional email provider (Mailgun, Postmark, etc.) is strongly recommended.
