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.
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 what subscribers will see before anything goes out, and send yourself a test with your real show details and sample subscriber details. No PHP template files. No digging through plugin code.
Email Editor also unlocks two email types that don’t exist in Benecaster at all without it: 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
- 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
{{in the subject or any block to open the picker - Preview, including your unsaved edits, with a preview for each kind of reader
- Test send (to yourself or a colleague, with your real show details and sample subscriber details)
- Per-show customization — different branding per show on Multi-Show plans
- Template versioning — restore any of the last 20 versions
- Template reset to plugin defaults
- Import and export your designs, to move them between shows and sites
- 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 |
{{feed_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. - Community Integrations —
{{discord_invite_url}},{{circle_community_url}}and{{circle_discussion_url}}merge tags appear in your templates, so a welcome email can hand a new subscriber their community invite.
Requires / Works with
- Requires: Benecaster, on any plan from Launch up
- 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.