The Dashboard is your MailerPress home page. Open MailerPress > Dashboard to see, at a glance, your key email statistics, upcoming and recent campaigns, audience growth and automation activity. Everything is shown in widgets (small information blocks) that you can rearrange. The Dashboard is included in MailerPress (free).
Buttons at the top of the page
- Setup Guide opens a checklist of the first things to set up, with a progress bar (for example 3/7). Click a step to read what it does, then click its button to go to the right screen. MailerPress checks a step automatically once it is done.
- Edit Widgets opens the Manage Widgets window to choose, order and lay out the widgets.
- Customize switches the grid to edit mode. Click Done Editing to leave it.
Setup Guide steps
| Step | Marked as done when |
|---|---|
| Set up sender identity | A default sender name and email address are saved. |
| Connect a dedicated email service | A service other than PHP Mail is enabled. |
| Create a contact list | At least one list exists. |
| Add your first contacts | At least one contact exists. |
| Send your first campaign | At least one campaign exists. |
| Create your first automation | At least one automation exists. |
| Enable double opt-in | Sign-up confirmation is enabled in Settings > Sign-up Confirmation. |
For a step-by-step walkthrough, see the Quick start guide.
Available widgets
All widgets below are shown by default, except Today’s Summary, which you can add from Edit Widgets. Each user only sees the widgets allowed by their MailerPress permissions: campaign widgets need access to campaigns, audience widgets to contacts, and automation widgets to automations.
Key figures
| Widget | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Total Contacts | The number of contacts, with the subscribed, bounced (address that could not receive your email) and inactive counts. |
| Open Rate | The share of sent emails that were opened, and total opens. |
| Click Rate | The share of sent emails in which a link was clicked, and total clicks. |
| Unsubscribe Rate | Your unsubscribe rate and total unsubscribes. |
| Best Open Day | The day of the week with the most opens. |
| Best Open Hour | The hour of the day with the most opens. |
| Active Campaigns | Titled Campaigns sent: campaigns created in the last 30 days, excluding drafts and trashed campaigns. |
| Quick Actions | Shortcuts to New Campaign, New Contact and Import Contacts. |
Campaigns
| Widget | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Planned Campaigns | Your next scheduled campaigns, with a See all link. |
| Recent Campaigns | Recently sent campaigns with their opens, clicks and unsubscribes. |
| Top Performing Campaigns | Your best campaigns by open and click rates. |
| Latest Campaigns | Your most recent campaigns, with a Create Campaign button and a Duplicate action. |
| Email Performance | Emails sent over the last 7, 30 or 60 days, with delivered, opened and unsubscribed counts. |
| Today’s Summary | Campaigns scheduled for today, with shortcuts to create a campaign and add contacts. Hidden by default. |
Audience
| Widget | What it shows |
|---|---|
| New Contacts | New contacts per day. |
| Subscriber Growth | New subscribers versus unsubscribes, and net growth, over 7, 30 or 90 days or a custom date range. |
| Contacts Summary | Total contacts, plus subscriptions and unsubscriptions for today or the last 7, 30 or 60 days, with an Add new contact button. |
Automations
An automation (or workflow) sends emails or performs actions on its own when something happens, such as a new sign-up. A job is one run of an automation for one contact.
| Widget | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Active Workflows | The number of active workflows. |
| Workflow Jobs | The total number of jobs run. |
| Recent Workflows | Recently active workflows with their success rate and number of jobs. |
| Automation Activity | Jobs over time, split between completed and failed. |
MailerPress Pro widget
With MailerPress Pro, users who can manage settings also get a Webhooks widget. Webhooks are automatic notifications exchanged with other apps. The widget shows incoming and outgoing webhook calls and their success rate over 7 or 30 days. See MailerPress Webhooks Guide.
Customize the widgets
- Click Edit Widgets.
- Under Grid Layout, choose the Number of Columns (1 to 4).
- Under Active Widgets, drag widgets to reorder them, and use each widget’s toggle to show or hide it.
- Under Available Widgets, click Add next to a widget to put it on your Dashboard.
Each user has their own layout, so your changes don’t affect other users’ Dashboards.