A Comprehensive Features List of eC-messenger
A functional range which leaves nothing to be desired
User Interface
- Intuitive user interface with integrated online help
- Available on all standard browsers
- 24/7 availability
Message Broadcast
- Multi-channel: Email, SMS, Fax
- Testing of subject lines and content with subsequent automatic email broadcast of the most successful test message
- Individual email address value thanks to the ability to determine message limits per recipient
- Option to send emails with a digital signature
- Ability to include social media links with Social Media Fusion tool
- Campaign preview tool via Return Path integration to view campaigns in different email readers before hitting send.
- Adjustable broadcast speed capacity, enabling you to optimise the utilisation ratio of your web servers and maximise deliverability rates
- Broadcast capacity: More than 10 million emails per hour
- Option to send final broadcast to seed or proof addresses
- Intuitive SMS tool to integrate email with the mobile channel and generate valuable new email addresses
Tracking, Reporting & Statistics
- Complete trackable history of individual newsletter recipients along the entire newsletter lifecycle (message and recipient related)
- Cookie or session based conversion tracking
- Real-time reporting of the most important email statistics (bounces, opens, clicks on all or single links, conversions & forwards)
- Option to export statistics as an excel file in just one click
- Visual reporting of the results online and recipient related exports in csv or xml format
- Ability to select target group reporting based on age, gender and free selectable, additional attributes
- Comparison analysis of several messages
- Enhanced reporting capabilities to automated, periodical analysis for target groups, messages or system statistics
- Ability to track individual links that are personalised to each recipient
- Link tracking aggregated by link category option
- One click web analytics integration tool for the simple selection of web analytics tracking
Template Management (Content Management System)
- Sample based content management system to easily create newsletters
- Corporate design templates
- The ability to create messages without HTML knowledge
- Automatic creation of text versions from HTML messages
- Workflow functionality for external contributors
- Branch concept with localised message parts for each separate branch
- Comment field in CMS paragraphs for proofing and workflow of large CMS projects
Personalisation
- Personalisation of the message based on single attributes via a placeholder
- Complex personalisation such as individual message parts for single recipients or target groups are possible
- Personalised pictures and attachments
Segmentation and Targeting
- Integrated selection tool to define target groups based on profile data (e.g. age, gender etc) and action data (e.g. click, purchase etc)
- Automatic assignment of recipients in individually configured client segments based on eligible attributes and combinations
- Calculation of recipient specific performance indicators (e.g. average purchase value)
Automated Work Processes
- Rule types can be assigned to data prompting automated multi-level campaigns (e.g. automatic follow up emails, birthday emails etc.)
- Definition of regular work processes: data synchronisation with external databases and allocation of statistical analysis
- Creation of periodical recurring messages (e.g. for birthday mailings or to reactivate inactive recipients)
Deliverability
- Automatic classification of undelivered emails (bounces) in five categories
- Automated bounce processing on the basis of individually configured rules for optimal list maintenance
- Consideration of all industry standards and provider specific delivery guidelines
- Automatic processing of spam complaints via a feedback loop with the most important ISPs
- Whitelisting via CSA. Other certifications like Sender Score (Return Path) available on request. More under ISP Relations
- Integration of external Robinson lists
Interfaces
- Real time notifications (profile modification, registrations, notice of removal, bounces)
- Web requests via HTTP(S) REST interface
- Automatic import and export tasks via FTP(S)
- SOAP (synchronal and asynchronous)
- JDBC access to synchronise data directly
Security
- Administration settings can be set for each individual across the system
- Full cost control at any time through integrated date management or charging
- Protection against unauthorised access to the databases through the multi-level applications layout
- Overview of ongoing system processes with the possibility to stop or rearrange them at any time
- High reliability through redundancy of all hardware components (including a second computing centre)
- Annual inspection of the system security through independent, external service providers

