Updates 2016

Discover our latest releases for Yet Another Mail Merge! New features and many improvements are being implemented regularly.

December 2016

Integration of a new pie chart in the tracking report (see documentation and G+ post):

Many unknown errors occurred, and the messages displayed to users were unclear. Most of them are now fixed, and instead we have replaced them with a more understandable explanation.
Data from the tracking report are now displayed in your dashboard:

Similarly to Google Sheets filters, hidden rows from your spreadsheet are now skipped by YAMM (see documentation).

New logo
The Tracking Report update itself based on the active sheet so you can quickly check the status of your different campaigns (useful if you use the same spreadsheet to send multiple campaigns from multiple tabs /sheets):

Use Google Sheets filters to segment your list and send different campaigns to different targets.
https://support.yet-another-mail-merge.com/hc/en-us/articles/211755085

We are now using Google Sheets Named Ranges for both the recipient & the merge status column. This means that we do not rename the recipient's column to "Email address" anymore and people can rename their columns at any time without breaking the Tracking Report.

Bounced / rejected emails are now recorded and we correctly update the Tracking report with this info.
The Tracking Report now displays the Open rate, Click-through rate & Bounce rate for your campaign (see our blog post).

Tracking report open click bounce

Click tracking YAMM

You can now import contacts from Salesforce in addition to Google Contacts (see documentation).
The logic to track emails opened & clicked have been improved to respect spam filters rules and avoid being blacklisted.

A Domain Activity Report is now available in YAMM web app to see the overall usage of YAMM on your Google Apps domain (see documentation).
If you are launching YAMM from an empty spreadsheet we better guide you to list recipients so you can start your campaign.

The list of recipients is now cleaned-up to avoid delivery failures because of bad email addresses (e.g. if it contains accented letters).
Campaign scheduling is now available (see our blog post).

Schedule campaign YAMM

If we don't process a specific row because there's no recipient, we correctly add a status in the Merge status column (NO_RECIPIENT).
If you don't have a column named "Email address", we try to pre-select the best match (the column most likely containing your recipients).
A Campaign tab is now available in YAMM web app to help you track the list of all spreadsheets from which you have sent an email campaign. If you have a campaign scheduled, it will be listed there too (see documentation).

Curly brackets {} are now the most commonly used punctuation marks to build markers and we recommend people to use this format.

If user has previously sent another campaign from the same spreadsheet (and thus has a "Merge status" column), we ask if he would like to do a follow-up.
Internet Explorer is no longer supported due to some web features we have recently added to YAMM (it is working on Microsoft Edge though).
Many improvements to correctly retry without showing any error message to the user when something goes wrong on Google backend.
CC & BCC are now better handled (when added in sheet and / or in Gmail draft). Here's all you should know about usage of CC & BCC in YAMM.