Multiple categories result in multiple notifications

I don’t see how to do what I want with your tool. I have a blog with multiple categories of posts, and I’d like subscribers to select which categories they want to receive notifications about. I see I can set up a separate “list” for each category, but then to send out notifications only to those subscribers who selected that category, I have to create a separate campaign for each list.

This is a lot of work to set up, and it’s hard to maintain, since if I change something about the newsletter template I have to make a corresponding change in several newsletters, and if I add a category I have to create another list and another campaign also.

That’s possible to do, of course. It seems like more work than I should have to do for this very common use case, but whatever.

The real problem comes when I do a post that I want to assign to multiple categories. If I do this, subscribers who have selected multiple lists when filling in the form, may receive multiple copies of the notification about the post. This is obviously not what they would want.

Is there not a way to have ONE LIST and define a categories field on the form, and calculate the audience for the mailing to exclude those users who have not elected to receive any of the categories associated with that post? This would avoid the problem of users receiving duplicate notifications, and also would be much easier to administer.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Tyler Tork.