The are 2 features our users ask us every week:
- Additional fields in their forms for phone numbers, gender, country, city, birthday, etc.
- A way to design their subscription forms easily without code
We’re going to address both with a single new form designer. You’ll be able to drag and drop your fields into your form, but also add styling, in one interface.
Think of our beloved visual editor for your newsletter. But this time for forms.
We’re not sending Curiosity to Mars, but still, such a feature does require time and thought by the team here (essentially Ben, the WordPress master coder, who points me in the right direction).
Our first step is to move the form’s options away from the widget and put them in our plugin’s settings page. This is what it looks like, in our wireframes at least:
One feature, trickled
We’ll roll these features out in steps in the next several weeks, like this:
- Moving subscription from options from widget to settings page
- Adapting our import tool to detect additional fields: date added, country, etc.
- Adapting our synch to import additional fields from other emailing plugins, such as Tribulant, MailPress, Subscribe2, etc.
- Integrate all custom fields: country, city, phone number, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.
- Polish based on feedback
- Form styler (to be wireframed)
- Segmentation of lists based on custom fields (to be wireframed).
Feel free to give us feedback on the PDF if you’re into user interface design. This document is our 4th version compiled over 3 months. Yup, we take our time to make things right!
Thank you guys so much! I’m really looking forward to this.
sounds really great – thanks. I can´t wait to get these features as I am planing to buy 3 premium versions – depending when it is available. We like to move away from mailchimp. Great software, but has its bugs. Especially because of my clients who cannot edit their newsletters themeselfes without seeing my other clients.
Are you planing to offer a “premium – master ” Version?
One price to be able to use the newsletter on different domains?
That would help.
thanks
if you can offer a deadline for these features – would be awesome :-)
To be safe, expect custom fields to be available in early 2013.
Yes, we do plan on having a 5 site license and an unlimited license. We haven’t yet decided on price. These will come before the end of the year.
If you have any additional questions, get in touch in our contact form: http://www.wysija.com/contact/
Cheers!
This is absolutely fantastic new! Can’t wait!!! Thanks!
Just to let you know, I have a few clients which will immediately upgrade to premium once this feature is ready.
We know! It’s taking more time than previously estimated. Rest assured, it’s at the top of our list.
This is the only reason why I’m not migrating to Wysija as I’ll lose all the custom fields I have with my current solution.
Got a new time frame? Any way to get a notice when these features will be released?
Good question. We’ve been quite a bit delayed on this, and unfortunately, we’ll probably need more time than anticipated. As of now, we’re looking at March at the earliest, but we’ve begun the work on it.
Why? We’ve been swamped with support, the holidays, and multisite.
Alright. Thanks for the info.
Looks good so far… Will users be able to segment campaigns based on these additional fields? E. G. Email customers that live in a particular city and are 16 to 35 years of age? Thanks!
Yes, that is the plan!
Great, count me in for a premium once this feature is added :)
Does anyone know when this this feature will be added and if we will be able use these custom Fields in news letters we created.
For example,
Dear John,
I want to thank your for allowing us to help you with your 2012 Ford Mustang price quote back back on 12/30/2012.
I hope you are enjoying your new ride and wanted to take the time to offer you this killer deal for a no obligation insurance quote to help you lower your rates.
Thank you very much….
Your auto adviser dude….lol
When we launch custom fields later in March, you’ll be able to include them in your newsletters indeed. This is a big feature that is taking some time to implement. More to come!
Hi Kim,
i am going to create a script wich syncs my customers database to wysija. Do you have the database design ready yet ? This would help us to develop the script.
Thanks
Holger
Hello Holger,
Actually the current design is already thought for that, so that’s pretty simple.
Each time you’ll create a new Custom Field, we will add an entry describing it into : wp_wysija_user_field
and then for each of those custom fields a new column will be added in the table : wp_wysija_user
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Ben
Hello,
what about Buddypress sites, which already have additionnal fields on their member profiles ? Will we be able to use these ones instead of re-creating them in Wysija ?
Really looking forward to this.
Will the Form Editor enable creation of forms to allow a user to edit and modify profile information (such as list selection)?
Thanks for a great newsletter system!!
Hey! You can already let your subscribers edit their details.
Activate this option in your Wysija Settings > Advanced tab.
I have seen that form before, and it is fine for subscribers who have received an email.
However, I need to provide a link on the website itself to enable a subscriber to edit subscriptions.
The reason is that many of our users (6,000) are registered users of the site, but not of Wysija. We also will continue to get new users registering through the WP registration (and social registration).
Charles
What’s the latest update on the timeframe?
Hi guys
I’m pitching today, and will be recommending wysija.
Any update on timeframe for this feature?
We’ve started coding it. It will be in our 2.6 release, which is due in late June.
We’ve been quite bad at estimating release times, so we’re a little more careful in managing your expectations. :-)
I know how that goes!
Thanks for getting back to us.
I’m sorry it’s not sooner.
Good luck!