Email and automations

Forms, lead magnets, broadcasts, and follow-up that sends itself.

How lead capture works in DrryThe five pieces, how they connect, and the one thing that joins a form to a follow-up sequence. Read this before anything else in this section.6 min
Create your first formBuilding a form, choosing what happens after someone submits it, and putting it where people will see it.8 min
Give away a free downloadTrade a PDF or a workbook for an email address: uploading the file, delivering it, and what your signup actually receives.4 min
Send a follow-up sequence after someone signs upBuild an automation that watches a list and sends three emails over a week. The full walkthrough, including the two things that catch everyone out.4 min
Write and send an emailThe email editor, who you can send to, testing before you send, and what happens after you press the button.5 min
Why my emails aren't sendingThe eleven quiet failures, as symptoms. Start here when something should have gone out and did not.4 min
Lists, segments and tags: which do I want?Three ways to group people, one table showing what each can actually do.2 min
Where your signups goFinding the people who filled in your forms, what the columns mean, and getting your data out.4 min
Import your contacts from another platformBringing your list across from Mailchimp, Kajabi, ConvertKit or a spreadsheet, and the one file most people forget to bring.6 min
How email works in DrryThe four kinds of email your community sends, which of them a member can switch off, and who they appear to come from.2 min
Send from your own domainConnect a domain you own so your community's email comes from you, with the five DNS records it needs. Available on the Growth plan.2 min
Deliverability, bounces and unsubscribesWhat the deliverability bar is telling you, the difference between a bounce and a complaint, and what to do when the numbers creep up.3 min
Your send allowanceHow many emails each plan includes per period, what counts towards it, and what happens when you run out.6 min
Add a signature to your emailsSet one signature for your community, with your name in your own hand or a logo, and choose which emails it closes.2 min
Create a form that charges on submitTurn a form into a checkout. People fill it in, a payment panel opens, and they become a contact once they have paid. Steps, limits and what to expect.6 min
Remind shoppers who left checkoutSend a reminder email to a shopper who gave their email at your shop checkout and didn't pay: setup, who it never reaches, and where the numbers are.6 min
How automations workWhat an automation is, who it picks up and when, how people leave it, and where to see what it is doing. Read this before you build one.5 min
Every automation trigger and what starts itAll 22 triggers, grouped the way the picker groups them, with what each one needs, who it picks up and whether it looks back.6 min
Steps you can add to an automationEvery step in the builder, grouped as the Add a step picker groups them: messages, timing, logic, offers and people.3 min
Conditions: the questions an automation can askEvery condition you can use in an If / else, a split, a condition wait or a goal, and which ones only work for members.5 min
Time emails around an eventSend reminders before an event and a follow-up after it, timed off the event itself. Covers late sign-ups, moving or canceling the event and event details in emails.4 min
Run an automation for every session of a recurring eventBuild one automation for a weekly class or webinar and have it run for every session. Which trigger to use, what happens per session, the limits, and how tags fit.6 min
The daily email limit and why a step was skippedAutomations send at most three emails per person per day. What happens to an email over the limit, and what each skip reason on the Activity page means.3 min
Turn on, edit, pause and delete an automationWhat Drry checks before an automation goes live, what happens to people already in it when you edit, pause or delete it, and how copying works.4 min
Tags in automations: what they can and cannot doHow tags work inside automations: adding and removing them, branching on them, and the things a tag cannot do, like starting an automation.2 min
Make a segment from a form answerGroup people by what they answered on one of your forms, then email exactly that group.3 min