During testing, I had developed the contact/membership fields that matched our current system. Also, I defined the 16 levels of membership (actually 8 levels for 1 yr and 8 discounted levels for 2 yr memberships). Because the 30 day test period ended, I bought the Community package. Much to my surprise, renewal invoices were sent out, which was a "gotcha." Our system was not nearly ready to go live. For each of 16 levels in Renewal Policy, I now have to manually disable 6 email options each, or 96 total. After we go live, I have to reinstate these options. A single command to stop emails during development would certainly be a helpful and welcome option.

I am phasing in Wild Apricot, with the first step to make WA a membership and contact database. I don't want WA to be sending any emails while we migrate our members and contacts lists while we are doing work on the back end. But, as we start using WA for applications, renewals, and payments, I don't want to have to worry about make sure 30 check boxes are appropriately set back. A global email disable/re-enable switch in a must have for businesses that are slowly phasing in WA.

I too would like to globally turn off system emails with a single switch.

:( Sorry to hear that Liz. This is exactly the type of thing we hope we can prevent in the future. Unfortunately we don't have this feature assigned to a release yet, but hearing these specific cases is really helpful for when start working on it.

I recently had to change the Member Fee on a few levels. Unbeknownst to me, this automatically switched on New Member Confirmation emails for those levels. Why? The checkbox for this isn’t even on the same screen as the Member Fee, so I didn't notice WA had made the change when I saved. We accidentally had an email go out to a new member that shouldn’t have gone out. It’s very frustrating because I had previously, very deliberately set those emails to not send.

There needs to be a way to globally disable email, without affecting each member's "Subscribed to Email" status. The import/export method only works if individual email preferences aren't already set and it's safe to blanket switch everyone to unsubscribed and then to subscribed.

We are using WA primarily as an internal database at the moment and will be phasing in member self-service. I want ZERO emails to be sent by the system, but a set of renewal invoices just slipped through the cracks. It's incredibly frustrating trying to find every single check box that needs to be unchecked to ensure nothing gets sent out. It's also frustrating that the default for new events, member levels, etc. is to send out the emails to members. A global switch to turn all system emails off would be immensely useful.

Allow us to disable all Event registration initiated emails globally, not just individually. We NEVER want this email to be sent.

i'm just setting up our new website, and i've had a few bumps along the way. As an admin, I need to make changes to multiple records to get our site set up correctly (e.g. set up bundles, move from one membership level to another). I would like to be able to turn off automatic emails triggered when I've exported/changed/imported records. Please help!

It's too elaborated. Here I was discussing a simple options to switch all emails off.

We have no progress here yet, sorry.

I see there was some very good discussion about this back in 2011, but I'm not seeing how it was ultimately resolved. Has this feature been implemented? If so, where can I find it?

Thanks,

Terrill

Terrill,

We have a help page on the subject of controlling automatic emails: http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Controlling+the+delivery+of+automatic+emails . Maybe you can take a look at it and let us know what if anything is missing in terms of being able to turn off automatic emails.

Hi all -

I'm still working with setting up database and site settings on my new WA account and am not yet ready to "go live". However, I've already had a couple of instances where automatic emails have been sent to members when I altered membership settings, and I would like to prevent these until I'm ready to fully roll this out.

Is there a way I can turn off all automated emails until that time?

Thanks,

PaulR

Another vote from a new user of Wild Apricot: the ability to globally disable and the re-enable email would be a very useful feature as you are creating and adjusting new accounts imported from other systems. Has any progress been made on this feature since August?

If you open export file, there will be a column named "Subscribed to emails". You can set "No" to all contacts and import back the file (update only this column). This will switch off completely all emails for your contact database.

Greetings.

I have exactly this issue, and have sent out automated membership type alterations - extremely embarrassing. Grrr.

By disable email, do you mean export. delete email and re-import? Or is there another field?

Thx for you help...

C

Here's a scenario that I'm facing now: I am entering name and address information manually for a number of new contacts from an outside database that doesn't include email addresses (but for some of these names email addresses have been entered in Wild Apricot previously). We want to send these people a mailer via the US Post Office. In order to enter their postal addresses, I have to either convert them into members (which will result in their being sent an email indicating their membership has been confirmed) or I will have to create customized data fields for their address information (which will become redundant if and when they convert to members on their own). It would be nice if I could turn off email in this instance so these people won't falsely receive a message indicating they are now members when all I am doing is entering their address information.

The only workaround now is export/import (export, disable emails in the file and import back)

Hi Evgeny,

I'm also trying to manualy "clean up" my contact list after an inital import to WA. I would really, really like to temporarily disable automatic emails to members when I change their memebr status (Sc-1 above). Is there a way to do this.

It is a real pain to disable each contact's email!

Thanks,

Bob Weis

Re SC-03: I do not know yet, this was just a question for analysis :) But I got your point, thanks.

I think you've understood my wishes. Sc-02 is exactly what we're after.