Subsail’s August updates

Dan Rowden
Subsail
Published in
2 min readSep 12, 2017

Here’s what’s new!

Digital subscriptions

A big update to Subsail’s checkouts and backend systems means that you can now offer digital subscriptions to your readers/fans.

A digital subscription checkout (no address fields)

You can set up Print, Print + digital and Digital subscriptions in Subsail, which lets you both offer different pricing and view subscriptions based on each their “medium.”

Viewing digital subscriptions inside Subsail

Read the announcement blog post

Segment subscriptions by product purchased

Segments let you create sub-groups of subscribers based on data points. Recently, “product” was added as a segmentation option letting you create lists of subscribers who bought (or didn’t buy) the subscriptions you sell in Subsail and other platforms.

Creating a segment based around products imported from another sales channel (eg Big Cartel, Shopify etc.)

A start on “promo” codes

Promo codes are coming to Subsail. “Promo code” is simply a term Subsail uses to describe a code applied to a subscription, which can either be a discount or campaign code.

Discount codes
Subsail now saves discount data from imported CSVs. Creating and offering discount codes to customers will come online in the coming months.

Campaign codes
If you’re a publisher who uses campaign codes on mail outs or promotions, Subsail will soon be able to track your incoming sales based on those codes. You will be able to set up new codes for your products within Subsail, which will create short URLs for sharing online (or in mail outs); all sales made using those URLs or codes will be tracked in your account.

September will be full of implementing better exporting tools and integrations with new fulfilment platforms (very excited about this one).

Stay tuned for new feature releases!

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Dan Rowden
Subsail

Developer, writer, podcaster. Blogger at teedrop.co & makeandgraft.com. Magazine reader, father.