Documentation
How the product actually works, in the order you are likely to need it. Every number on these pages is the one the software uses.
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Getting started
What happens when you sign up, what the trial includes, and how to get a first issue written and sent without configuring anything first.
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Your newsletter
Naming your newsletter, choosing its web address, setting a publishing schedule, and applying your logo, colour and fonts across the site and the emails.
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Domains and DNS
The records to add at your registrar, what each one does, how verification and certificates work, and what to do when a record will not verify.
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Sending
Sending is included and needs no setup. This covers sending from your own domain, moving to your own Amazon SES or SMTP account, and every limit that applies.
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Deliverability
The practical side of deliverability in Issue Mint: test sends, reading delivery numbers, what happens to bounced addresses, and the footer a reader needs.
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Subscribers
Your list, its statuses and sources, importing from a CSV, what happens to addresses that cannot receive mail, and how double opt-in and unsubscribes work.
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Collecting links
The link library and the four ways into it: the Chrome extension, reader submissions from your website, pasting a URL, and adding an item by hand.
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Writing and sending
The composer end to end: sections, links and comments, sponsored items, previews, test sends, and the difference between sending now and scheduling.
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Analytics
What Issue Mint measures and how: click tracking on your own domain, automatic campaign tags, open rates and their caveats, and why scanner traffic is excluded.
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Your website
Every page Issue Mint publishes for your newsletter, how it takes your branding, and the feed, sitemap, social cards and spam protection that come with it.
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Subscribe form
The two ways to collect signups on a site you already run: a script embed that matches your colours, and a plain HTML form for pages that cannot run scripts.
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Sponsorship
Setting up what you sell, pricing dates, running a bookable calendar, handling enquiries, and getting a confirmed sponsor into the right issue.
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Billing and plans
How your plan is worked out from your subscriber count, when it moves up or down on its own, and what changes when a trial ends or a plan is cancelled.
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Account and security
Your profile and password, the browsers connected to your account, what we store and for how long, and how credentials and reader links are protected.
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Reference
The numbers and vocabulary in one place: every limit and threshold, what each status means, the emails we send, and the extension API.
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Troubleshooting
The things that go wrong most often, and what to do about each: domains that will not verify, issues landing in spam, and numbers that look wrong.
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