Email Directory — Every Email Benecaster Sends

A single table of every email Benecaster’s own WordPress site can send — what triggers it, the template file that renders it, and where to read more. This is a directory, not a replacement for the pages it links to: Automated Emails explains each one for a podcaster audience, Email Types Reference covers the filter and action hook families that target them, and Billing Emails covers the built-in membership billing emails in full, including default copy.

Scope: emails sent by your own site only. Every row below is dispatched by the plugin’s own EmailQueue, through your own SMTP connection. It does not include emails benecaster.com sends you directly about your account (threshold warnings, plan changes, payment-failure notices) — those never pass through your site and have no template file to override. See the “Emails Benecaster Sends You From benecaster.com” section of Automated Emails for that list. Add-on-only email types are excluded too (broadcast, episode_notification) — see Email Types Reference for those. The one exception is the Analytics Dashboard digests, listed at the end of this page.

Subscriber Emails

Sent to a listener about their feed, their tier or a donation, whichever membership setup the show uses.

Welcome, Token Reset and Tier Change can each be switched off per show, at Benecaster → Shows → [show] → Subscription → Welcome and Feed URL Emails (works under any bridge). A switched-off email is never built, so it never reaches the benecaster_email_should_send filter. The Welcome switch is the one exception that never fully applies — it never stops a follower’s welcome email, since that’s a follower’s only route to their feed URL (operator ruling). Donation Thank-You has no per-show switch.

Feed Link and Token Reset both carry a feed URL, and they do opposite things. Feed Link resets nothing: it re-sends the URL already in the subscriber’s podcast app, so the app keeps working. Token Reset follows a reset: the old URL has stopped working and the subscriber has to set the podcast up in their app again. Feed Link has no per-show switch, because it is only sent when a podcaster asks for it, and subscribers cannot unsubscribe from it.

Built-in Membership Billing Emails

Sent to subscribers of a show on Built-in Membership, about their payments, renewals, price changes and scheduled plan changes.

The five above (Subscription Receipt through Subscription Cancelled) can each be switched off per show, at the same Subscription tab’s Subscriber Billing Emails section. Same rule: a switched-off email is never built. Billing Change Scheduled, Plan Change Scheduled, Move to Free Plan Scheduled and Billing Address Needed for Tax have no per-show switch.

Of the three price-change emails, only the reminder has a switch — price_change_notice and price_change_cancelled always send, because they are the notice itself. All three are transactional, in UnsubscribeManager::TRANSACTIONAL_TYPES — as are Billing Change Scheduled (cadence_switch_scheduled), Plan Change Scheduled (tier_switch_scheduled), Move to Free Plan Scheduled (free_tier_switch_scheduled) and Billing Address Needed for Tax (tax_address_needed): each describes the subscriber’s own billing, so a marketing opt-out does not stop it, and none carries an unsubscribe link.

Emails to the Site Admin

Sent to the site’s admin email address (Settings → General → Administration Email Address), not to a subscriber, so there is no subscriber context and no unsubscribe link.

It has no per-show switch. It is transactional; to stop it, return false from benecaster_email_should_send_tax_threshold_nudge.

Promote to Bridge Emails

Sent to subscribers the Promote to Bridge wizard moved from Built-in Membership to a membership plugin: one before their grace period ends, and one if it ends without re-authorization.

Account Provisioning Emails

These support follower signup and accounts created for subscribers, plus one account-identity change outside signup. None of them get a per-show on/off toggle. New Account — Set Password, Already Following, and Email Verification ARE registered in EmailTypeRegistry (with unsubscribable: false), so they appear in the Email Editor add-on’s template manager — registration just isn’t wired to a settings-page toggle yet. Follower — Confirm Signup is the one exception: it’s dispatched the same way, through EmailManager::send(), so the filter families above still work on it, but it has no EmailTypeRegistry entry and so doesn’t surface in the Email Editor’s list. All four can be overridden with the standard PHP template override system regardless.

Add-on Emails to the Site Admin

From the Analytics Dashboard add-on, only while it is on. These go to the administrators you tick under Digest emails, and have their own Unsubscribe link: a subscriber opt-out never stops them. Template for all three: the add-on’s templates/emails/analytics-digest.php, which a theme can override at benecaster/emails/analytics-digest.php.