# Mass Email Notifications — Welcome & Overview

**Mass Email Notifications for Gravity Forms** gives you a safe,
built‑in way to reach many people at once — right from your form
entries. Instead of exporting addresses and juggling another system, you
create a batch inside WordPress, pick who should receive it, and let the
plugin send messages in a controlled, reliable flow.

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## What It Does

- **Send emails in bulk** to recipients pulled from Gravity Forms
  entries.
- **Control delivery** with per‑minute, hourly, daily, and monthly
  throttling.
- **Manage batches** with options to preview, send now, cancel, or mark
  complete.
- **Compose messages** using Gravity Forms notifications or custom
  templates with full merge‑tag support.
- **Extend with Premium** features like CSV imports, merge tag
  fallbacks, target‑form filtering, scheduling future sends, **Double Opt‑In**, and **Gravity Flow** integration.

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## Who It’s For

- **Small businesses** updating customers or leads.
- **Nonprofits** sending newsletters, donor updates, or volunteer
  reminders.
- **Schools and teams** coordinating with parents, students, or members.
- **Project managers** keeping groups informed via GravityView
  workflows.
- **WordPress admins** who want to replace external mailing tools with a
  native, GF‑aware solution.

If you know how to set up a Gravity Forms feed, you’ll feel right at
home.

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## Free vs. Premium

**Free Version:**

- Create feeds tied to forms.
- Select target email fields.
- Use GF notifications as templates.
- Apply feed conditional logic.
- Set global throttling rules.
- Monitor and manage batches.

**Premium Adds:**

- Schedule batches for future dates.
- Import and map CSV lists.
- Define merge tag fallbacks.
- Filter by conditions in the target form.
- Advanced unsubscribe and Double Opt-In features.

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## How It Works

1.  You configure a feed.
2.  Each feed points to a form and email field. You can use an existing
    notification as the template, or build a custom message from
    scratch.
3.  When you submit a "control" form, the plugin builds a batch and
    waits five minutes — giving you time to review or cancel. Editing
    isn’t supported yet (that’s on the roadmap), but you can cancel and
    re‑run the feed after updating the relevant info in the form or
    entries.
4.  The batch is then processed by cron, at the rate you set in global
    limits.
5.  Progress is logged and visible in the batch manager.

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## What You’ll Find in This Documentation

To help you get the most out of Mass Email Notifications, the docs are
organized into these sections:

- **Getting Started**: A guided orientation — where to find the plugin,
  how batches work, SMTP setup, and the recommended control‑form
  pattern.
- **Setup**: Step‑by‑step guides for creating feeds, choosing email
  fields, setting global limits, and using GF notifications as
  templates.
- **Settings Reference**: Every option explained — feed labels,
  deduplication, email fields, conditional logic, CSV support, and
  global rules.
- **How‑to Guides**: Practical walkthroughs — sending updates to other
  forms’ users, segmenting with filters, importing CSVs, handling
  limits, and letting non‑admin staff trigger emails safely.
- **Troubleshooting**: Common pitfalls and fixes — batches not sending,
  cron not running, rate‑limit pauses, spam delivery issues, and entry
  deletions.
- **Explanations & Concepts**: The thinking behind batching, throttling
  models, deduplication rules, logging, limitations, and safe permission
  patterns.
- **Changelog / Roadmap**: Stay current on version history and see
  what’s planned next, like per‑email controls and a visual builder.

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