Add-on: Email Editor

$49/year

Your subscriber emails, your brand — no template files, no code.

A visual editor for every email Benecaster sends.

Benecaster sends emails — welcome, token reset, episode notifications, migration sequences, broadcast emails to your subscriber list. Without Email Editor, those emails use the plugin’s default templates. With it, every template is yours to customize: drag blocks, edit copy, set your colors and logo, preview before sending.

No PHP template files. No digging through plugin code. A drag-and-drop editor with a merge tag library, live preview, and test send.

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.

Pairs well with

Analytics Dashboard — open rates and click-through rates per episode notification, powered by Email Editor’s tracking pixel
Migration Wizard — customize the migration email sequence with full merge tag support and per-show branding

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.