• Npro scheduler is an add-on module for Newsletter Manager Pro.
• It allows you to define the date and time that your mailing will start, create recurrent mailings and set-up follow-up mailings.
• It is an application that you install on the host server and runs as a Windows service.
• It restarts automatically after server reboot.
• Administration is done via the admin panel of Newsletter Manager Pro.
• It creates a log file that where every step about its operation is captured.

You need permission from your host (or server administrator) in order to install and use this application.

Shared hosting environment

You must ask your host whether they will accept to install this application. Some hosts may accept it. Some may not. We provide full installation instructions (it is 5-10 min work) as well as the technical details in order to know what questions to ask your host (see below).

Note that you can also install the scheduler on a different machine than the one you install Newsletter Manager Pro.

Dedicated servers

This is the ideal case. You run your own dedicated server and you have full control of what to install. We provide full installation instructions and support.

• You create a new mailing activity
• You create a scheduler task for this activity and define the activation date/time that you want the sending to start
• You may use the batch sending option (select "Send in batches and repeat until completed". Example: send 1000, wait 1 hour and so on) or not (select the "Send all messages at once” option).

• You create a new mailing activity
• You create a scheduler task for this activity and define the activation date/time that you want the sending to start
• Under recurrence settings, you check the "recurrent event” check box and you say for example: repeat every week. 1/week.
• You can still use the batch sending option if you need to do so.

With Newsletter Manager Pro you can create a custom sign-up form that asks subscribers to enter their birthday. You may also import this info from another database when importing your subscribers. The steps are:

• Create a birthday newsletter.
• Create a birthday filter: Menu > Filter+ > Create birthday filter. You can use the same filter any day.
• Create a new mailing activity that will use the filter and the newsletter you created.
• Schedule this mailing and make the task recurrent (to repeat every day).

This is the classic scenario when a subscriber signs-up for your newsletter and you want to follow-up with ongoing newsletters at specific dates after he subscribed. You can fully automate this process in the following way.

• Suppose you want to send a newsletter on the 3rd, 5th, 7th day after the day one subscribed.
• Create 3 newsletters each one for a specific day.
• Create 3 filters for these days: Menu > Filter+ > Follow-up by date subscribed.
• Create 3 mailings that use these newsletters and filters.
• Schedule these mailings and make the tasks recurrent (to repeat every day).
• The scheduler will execute these mailings daily and it will send the newsletters only to the subscribers that match the filter criterion.
• Since these tasks are recurrent the scheduler will re-program these to run daily.

• By scheduling your mailings you don’t have to be in front of your computer to start a new mailing.
• Even if a sending fails or the server is re-started the scheduler will start again and continue the mailing from where it stopped.
• You can put your periodic mailings in auto-pilot. You create a periodic scheduler task and then you can work on your newsletter and have it ready just before the sending date.
• By applying batch settings you can spread the mailing, over a week (days etc) instead of sending all newsletters at once.