Email Digests
Automatically send weekly or monthly summaries of your updates to subscribers
Overview
Email Digests automatically compile your published changelog entries and send them as a beautifully formatted newsletter to your subscribers. Available on Pro plan and above.
On the Enterprise plan, you get access to dual audiences (public + customers), subscriber management, advanced email customization, and open/click analytics.
How It Works
- Go to Project Settings → Email Digest (or click the "Email Digest" button on your project page)
- Enable the digest and choose a frequency: weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly
- Configure the sender name, subject line, and email branding
- Users subscribe via the public changelog page, where a subscription form is displayed automatically
- Digests are compiled and sent automatically at the scheduled time, including all entries published since the last digest
Customization
All plans with email digests can customize the following:
- From Name: The sender name displayed in recipients' inboxes
- Subject Template: Use
{{period}}for dynamic text (e.g., "What shipped this week") - Logo: Add your brand logo at the top of the email
- Primary Color: Match the email accent color to your brand
- Header Message: Custom intro text below the logo. Supports
{{project_name}} - Footer Message: Custom text in the email footer
- Show Excerpts: Toggle whether entry descriptions are included
- Unsubscribe: One-click unsubscribe link is always included (GDPR compliant)
Dual Audiences: Public & Customers
Enterprise plans support two separate digest lists per project, each with its own configuration, subscriber list, and content filtering:
| Digest | Audience | Content | How Users Subscribe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public | Everyone | Entries with visibility: public | Public changelog page / widget |
| Customers | Clients only | Entries with visibility: public + customers | Manual add / CSV import only |
Each audience has its own frequency, branding, subject line, and advanced customization. Switch between them via the Public Digest / Customer Digest tabs in the settings.
Subscriber Management
Enterprise plans include a full subscriber management interface accessible from Project Settings → Email Digest → Manage Subscribers.
Public Subscribers
- Users self-subscribe via your public changelog page
- View, search, and export your subscriber list
- Remove individual subscribers if needed
Customer Subscribers
- Add manually: Enter email and optional name one by one
- Import CSV: Bulk import from a CSV file (columns: email, name)
- Export CSV: Download your full subscriber list with engagement data
Your CSV file should have columns email,name. The header row is optional; it will be auto-detected. Each imported subscriber is marked as active by default.
Advanced Customization
Enterprise plans unlock additional email customization options:
- Banner Image: Full-width image displayed below the email header
- CTA Button: Custom call-to-action button with text and URL, displayed after the entries
- Social Links: Add Twitter, LinkedIn, and website links in the email footer
- Reply-To Email: Set a custom reply-to address so recipient replies go to your support team
- Remove Branding: Hide the "Powered by ReleaseGlow" footer
Click Preview Email on the digest settings page to see a live preview of your configured email template with sample entries.
Tracking & Analytics
Enterprise plans include email engagement tracking. Access analytics from Project Settings → Email Digest → View Analytics.
How Tracking Works
- Open tracking: A 1x1 transparent pixel is embedded in the email. When loaded, it records a unique open per subscriber
- Click tracking: Links in the email are wrapped with a redirect URL that records the click before redirecting to the target
- Tracking data is fire-and-forget, so it never delays email delivery or link navigation
Dashboard Metrics
- Total Sent: Number of emails sent across all digests
- Open Rate: Percentage of unique opens per send
- Click Rate: Percentage of unique clicks per send
- Click-to-Open Rate (CTR): Clicks divided by opens
- Top Entries: The 5 most clicked changelog entries
- Send History: Detailed log of each digest send with per-send stats
Each subscriber's total opens and clicks are tracked over time. View individual engagement in the Subscriber Management table.
Features by Plan
| Feature | Free | Starter | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email Digests | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Frequency | — | — | Weekly / Bi-weekly / Monthly | Weekly / Bi-weekly / Monthly |
| Basic customization | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer digest (2nd audience) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Subscriber management | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| CSV import / export | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Advanced customization | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open & click analytics | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Email preview | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove branding | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |