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=== Email Marketing Automation, Email Newsletter and CRM Plugin for WordPress by FluentCRM ===
Contributors: techjewel,adreastrian,heera,wpmanageninja
Tags: newsletter, crm, Email Marketing, Funnel, Email Newsletter
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 5.9
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 2.5.8
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

The easiest and fastest Email Newsletter, Email Marketing Plugin & CRM Solution for WordPress

== Description ==
= The easiest and fastest Email Newsletter, Email Marketing Plugin & CRM Solution for WordPress =

👉 Official Website Link: [Official Website](https://fluentcrm.com/)
👉 Join Our FB Community: [FluentCRM Facebook Group](https://web.facebook.com/groups/fluentcrm)
👉 Official 5 Minutes Guide: [Getting started in 5 minutes](https://fluentcrm.com/fluentcrm-101/)

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= Your Self Hosted CRM & Email Marketing Solution in WordPress  =

[FluentCRM](https://fluentcrm.com) is the best and complete feature-rich Email Marketing & CRM solution. It is also the simplest and fastest CRM and Marketing Plugin on WordPress. Manage your customer relationships, build your email lists, send email campaigns, build funnels, and make more profit and increase your conversion rates. (Yes, It's Free!)

= FEATURES - Every online business needs =

**🎉 All-in-One Email Marketing Solution**
With FluentCRM, send email campaigns to targeted audiences, send sequential emails, onboard your new customers even automate your full email marketing with powerful automation visual automation builder.
After sending each email campaign, you can analyze the open rate, click rate, revenue earned from that specific campaign. You can also check data matrix like who open the emails and who clicked and based on that, you can do more actions and segment your customers further.

* Send or Schedule Email Campaigns (Unlimited contacts and campaigns)
* In-detailed campaign reports
* Run Automation for customer on-boarding or on different WordPress events.
* Send automated emails and track performance

**🎉 Customer relationship management (CRM)**

* Store all your customer information in a central place.
* Automatically import your contacts from CSV/WP Users/WooCommerce customers and view them in a central place.
* Know and analyze every bit of information about your contact. FluentCRM will show all the relevant data from WooCommerce, EDD, LearnDash, LifterLMS and give you better visibility.
* Track every marketing emails by Contact level
* Store Notes, Meeting logs, Calls in the contact profile
* Segment your contacts by <b>Lists</b>, <b>Tags</b> and filter for your appropriate target.

**🎉 Contact Segmentation and Reporting**

* Create Tags/Lists as many as you want and assign your contacts to your appropriate segment
* Filter or search your customers by List or Tags
* Send Marketing emails by including tags or lists and even excluding some contacts that are not intended to get a specific campaign email.
* Collect and Manage <b>unlimited contacts and leads</b>

**🎉 Email Marketing Campaigns**

* Save and Store all your pre-written email copies in a central place and use that whenever you want.
* Build a beautiful email body using an excellent email builder powered by Block Editor.
* Add Columns/images or dynamic content and make the email as simple or just fancy, Just based on your customer's taste.
* Use Dynamic Smart code like contact name or the country in your email or subject to personalize the experience.
* Send or Schedule emails at a future date and time, and you are ready to go.
* See in details reporting about the open rate, click rate
* See which links are clicks or which contacts opened your links
* Also, Send unlimited emails. (No Restriction)

**🎉 Email Newsletter Solution**
FluentCRM will help you to collect leads, automate emails, display subscription forms, send email newsletters all inside WordPress. FluentCRM is a <b>100% self-hosted WordPress Plugin</b> to send Newsletter, marketing campaign, newsletter broadcasts. After sending Email Newsletter, you can track how many emails were opened and clicked also which links were clicked and who clicked your links. You will get total analytics from your email newsletter campaign. Try FluentCRM for sending your Email Newsletter and increase your conversion rate.

**🎉 Marketing Funnel Builder**

* Design high converting customer journey with FluentCRM's Powerful funnel builder.
* Integrated with your favorite WordPress plugins.
* Start funnel sequences from different user actions like sign up, form submission, product purchase, LMS course enrollment.
* Build a simple funnel, like collecting contact to selling your paid products
* Automate your full marketing steps and give your customers a personal touch with our timely actions and responses.
* Measure funnel metrics in every step and find where you can do better.

**🎉 Integrated Optin Forms**

* Create and use optin forms right from FluentCRM, and for more advanced forms, use FluentForms (Totally Free) to collect your leads.
* Use forms with your Funnel builder as a trigger and automate your post form submission.
* Segment your users based on different form submissions or submitted data.

**🎉 BUILT-IN ANALYTICS & DASHBOARDS**

* View your full business insight right from the FluentCRM dashboard by using graphs, charts, data widgets
* Track every marketing emails and get in-detail metrics
* View all the data points of your customers from Purchase History, Support tickets to the offline phone call using activity logs.
* Integrate and use with other plugins like WooCommerce, EDD, LifterLMS, LearnDash, AffiliateWP, Paid Membership Pro, FluentForms, WPFusion, and many more coming.

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**🎉 Other Features (But not least)**

* Turn your WordPress post commenters into Subscribers
* Double Optin feature for getting quality leads
* Automatically make your WordPress users as your subscribers
* Manage and customize your email footer, Subscription Preference.
* Find out why your contacts are unsubscribing

= 🛡️ Fully GDPR Ready =
FluentCRM is a self-hosted WordPress plugin. You own your data, and no external SAAS connection is required to run your CRM system with FluentCRM. You can enable a consent checkbox as well as use double-optin. If you already have customers or users in WordPress, then maybe it's already consented, so no separate double opt-in is required.

= 🚀 Modern. Powerful. Super Fast 🚀 =

* Build with VueJS and REST API as a Single-page Application
* Super fast and lean interface so anyone can use it without any learning curve
* Super awesome Dashboard with charts, graphs, essential data points to show your full business overview.
* Integrated Email Marketing analytics to see the conversion rates.
* Developer Ready: Find the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/fluentcrm/fluent-crm/">source code in github and explore the PHP API and action hooks and extend.
* Setup your CRM in less than 2 minutes with our powerful Welcome Wizard
* Mail Deliverability: Send 100 emails or 50,000 emails. You are covered. With a powerful email sending mechanism, FluentCRM will send your emails and track those and report back to you.

= 🚀 FluentSMTP - WordPress Mail SMTP, SES, SendGrid, MailGun Plugin 🚀 =
We have released a companion plugin to connect with your Email sending service providers like Amazon SES, SendGrid, MailGun, SendInBlue, PepiPost, SparkPost, All Other SMTP.
FluentSMTP has all the powerful features like email logging, email resend, and most importantly, adding multiple email connections and routing your transactional and marketing emails easily.

= 🚀 Connect with ThriveCart  🚀 =
If you use ThriveCart then you easily integrate your ThriveCart store with FluentCRM. You can import your ThriveCart customers and automatically add, segment send sequential emails on ThriveCart activity like product sales, product refund, subscription cancelled etc.
This is a free integration, and you can make ThriveCart more powerful.

= Build and Crafted By Ninjas =

FluentCRM is built by professional WordPress developers who are working in the WordPress eco-system for more than 10 years. FluentCRM is developed by the same authors of Ninja Tables and FluentForms (The fastest and Modern Form Builder Plugin). We started this project in mid-2019 and after 1 year of development, we released the first version by doing a month-long private beta testing and using this plugin on our own website for the last 6 months. We also made sure  Here are some reviews from early adopters.

>__👦 Chris Lema, VP, Products at Liquid Web / Nexcess__
>...Those are all external solutions that don't run within your WordPress (or WooCommerce) site. Until now, the only native WordPress marketing automation solution I knew of was Groundhogg. But that was before I discovered FluentCRM. Not everyone can afford an external marketing automation platform or monthly fee. That's where #FluentCRM comes in.

>__👨 Review from David McCan, Founder @ WebTNG__
>FluentCRM will become the go-to email marketing solution for WordPress-based membership, course, and eCommerce sites.
 FluentCFM simplifies the complexity of email marketing and makes it available from within your WordPress dashboard.
 It is satisfying to be able to manage email engagement from within WordPress, where everything is under my control.

>__👨 Davinder Singh Kainth, Founder, The WP Weekly__
>Finally, an email marketing solution that looks native to the WordPress user interface and is super easy to use. Ideal for beginners to quickly get started with email lead generation to advanced users wanting to set up funnels with advanced tagging. FluentCRM offers a lot from the start and promises a lot more in future iterations.

>__👦 Eric Gracieta from BrockwayProduction, WordPress Consultant__
>FluentCRM looks like a very promising WordPress-powered CRM. It has everything a beginner needs to get started and has the power to follow you along when you need more advanced features. Very advanced, yet simple, CRM without the heavy cost, it has won my heart !

= FluentCRM Review by Experts =

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= SEAMLESS INTEGRATIONS (Pro) =
FluentCRM features and integrations that will help your business –

<h4>Native WORDPRESS INTEGRATION:</h4>
FluentCRM has all the native WordPress integration that will help you to collect leads, create contact segmentations and help to grow your email list.

* <a href="https://fluentcrm.com/docs/import-contacts-to-fluentcrm/"><b>WordPress User:</b></a> Import and Sync WordPress users automatically and segment by list and tag.
* <b>Comment Form Integration:</b> Let your users choose if they want to subscribe to your blog from the comment form and automatically add as subscriber and segment in list or tag.
* <b>User Sign up Form:</b> Automatically add your new signup as CRM lead and segment your contacts.
* <b>User Registration:</b> Automatically create users from your FluentCRM contacts.

<h4>WooCommerce Integration:</h4>
FluentCRM is the perfect companion for your WooCommerce store. You can segment your contacts by different WooCommerce Data Properties including Purchased Products, Purchased Categories, Lifetime value and more.
Along with these, you can send emails to your customers by segmenting them by specific product purchase. You can also onboard your new customers with FluentCRM automation and sequences.
With <b>WooCommerce Advanced Reports</b>, you can see the sales by product, time range and compare those with other date period to see how your store is performing.

<h4>Easy Digital Downloads Integration:</h4>
If you sale digital products or subscriptions then FluentCRM make your life more easier than evert with the super powerful integration.
You can segment your contacts by different Product Properties including Purchased Products, Purchased Categories, Lifetime value and more.
Along with these, you can send emails to your customers by segmenting them by specific product or subscription purchases. You can also onboard your new customers with FluentCRM automation and sequences.
With <b>EDD Advanced Reports</b>, you can see the revenue report by product, subscription revenue, time range and compare those with other date period to see how your store is performing. You can also check your customer growth easily.

<h4>LMS INTEGRATION:</h4>

* <b>LifterLMS:</b> Run funnels and marketing automations for different LMS actions like course enrollment, course completed, lesson completed etc.
* <b>LearnDash Integration:</b> Run funnels and marketing automation for different LMS actions like course enrollment, course completed, lesson completed, Group Membership Enrollment, etc.
* <b>TutorLMS Integration:</b> Run funnels and marketing automations for different TutorLMS actions like course enrollment, course completed etc.
* <b>LearnPress Integration:</b> Run funnels and marketing automations for different Learnpress actions like course enrollment, course completed etc.

<h4>MEMBERSHIP INTEGRATION:</h4>

* Paid Membership Pro integration.
* MemberPress.
* Wishlist Members.
* Restrict Content Pro Integration
* WPFusion Integration

<h4>Form INTEGRATION:</h4>
* Fluent Forms Integration
* Elementor Pro Form Integration
* Divi Bloom Integration
* ThriveArchitect
* Beaver Builder Form Integration

<h4>Other INTEGRATIONS:</h4>
* AffiliateWP Automation Integration
* Webhook integration

<h4>Automation INTEGRATIONS:</h4>
* Zapier
* Pabbly Connect
* Integrately

<h4>Page Builder INTEGRATIONS:</h4>
* ThriveThemes integration
* Divi Themes
* Elementor Page Builder
* Gutenberg / WordPress Editor Conditional Blocks
* Oxygen Builder Integration
* Beaver Builder

👉 [CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE](https://fluentcrm.com/?utm_campaign=wordpress-org-visitor&utm_medium=learn_more_about_crm&utm_source=WordPress.org)👈

<h4>Migrate From Other Providers:</h4>
With FluentCRM's automated migration tool, you can migrate from ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, MailChimp, Drip, ConvertKit easily in minutes.
Just go to contact imports then select your current provider (ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, MailChimp, Drip, ConvertKit) and once you connect then you can map the data easily and import all the contacts, tags / lists, custom fields and associate data.

<h4>REST API</h4>
FluentCRM has a full REST API support. If you want to integrate with Other System or building an APP then You can take a look of our REST API Documentation
👉 [View Rest API Documentation](https://rest-api.fluentcrm.com/)👈


== Other Plugins By The Same Team ==
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluentform/" target="_blank">Fluent Forms – Fastest WordPress Form Builder Plugin</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-tables/" target="_blank">Ninja Tables – Best WP DataTables Plugin for WordPress</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-charts/" target="_blank">Ninja Charts – Best WP Charts Plugin for WordPress</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-payment-form/" target="_blank">WPPayForm - Stripe Payments Plugin for WordPress</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mautic-for-fluent-forms/" target="_blank">Mautic Integration For Fluent Forms</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluentforms-pdf/" target="_blank">Fluent Forms PDF - PDF Entries for Fluent Forms</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluent-smtp/" target="_blank">FluentSMTP - WordPress Mail SMTP, SES, SendGrid, MailGun Plugin</a></li>
</ul>


== CONTRIBUTE ==
If you want to contribute to this project or just report a bug, you are more than welcome. Please check repository from <a href="https://github.com/fluentcrm/fluent-crm/">Github</a>.


== Installation ==
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

0. Just search for FluentCRM in WordPress Plugins and click install and activate.

OR

1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/fluent-crm` directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the \'Plugins\' screen in WordPress
3. Use the `FluentCRM` -> `Settings` screen to configure the plugin
4. (Make your instructions match the desired user flow for activating and installing your plugin. Include any steps that might be needed for explanatory purposes)

== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= Are there any limitations about how many emails I can send? =

No, there are no limitations. You can send as many emails as you want and also no limitations on contact numbers.

= How are emails sent? =

You can use any SMTP service like MailGun, SendGrid, Amazon SES. We recommend using Amazon SES because it’s a reliable and cost-effective solution.

= Is it 100% self-hosted? =

Yes, FluentCRM is 100% self-hosted. FluentCRM will not connect with any of our SAAS servers. You own the data, and your data should be hosted on your hosting server.

= Is it a GDPR compliant? =

Yes, your data never goes to a different server like MailChimp, ActiveCampaign, or 100s of other CRM. All the data will be saved and managed into WordPress.

= Will it is a performance issue for WordPress? =

Absolutely not! From the very first, We were careful about this. It stores all the Campaign and Contact data in custom database tables, so it will not affect your WordPress database. We built the application with VueJS, and it’s only run when you go to the admin dashboard of Fluent CRM. Also, The Admin UI is super fast as It’s a SPA and communicates over ajax.

= How can I migrate From GroundHogg CRM =

Migrating from GroundHogg CRM is super simple. Go to GroundHogg CRM and export all your contacts by it's Tag and then import in FluentCRM and Map the corresponding Data.

= How can I migrate From JetPack CRM =

Migrating from JetPack CRM is super easy and Simple. Go to JetPack CRM contacts and export all your JetPack CRM contacts by it's Tag and then import in FluentCRM and Map the corresponding Data.


= I want to report a bug; where to report? =

The entire source code is <a href="https://github.com/fluentcrm/fluent-crm/">available on github</a>. Please feel free to fork and send a pull request or report a bug.


== Screenshots ==
1. FluentCRM Dashboard
2. Email Builder
3. All Contacts
4. Contact Overview
5. Campaign Reports
6. Optin Forms
7. Marketing Funnel Builder
8. General Settings
9. Contact Segments
10. Pro Integrations

== Changelog ==

= 2.5.8 (Date: March 07, 2022 ) =
* Fixed campaign sending issue for some server
* Double Optin issue has been fixed
* Integration Improvements
* UI Improvements

= 2.5.6 (Date: February 28, 2022 ) =
* Added Auto Migration from ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, MailChimp, Drip, ConvertKit
* Fixed CSV Import Issue for duplicate emails
* Email Builder Issues fixed for latest version of WP
* Improved Contact Filtering
* Integration Improvements
* Improved UI

= 2.5.5 (Date: February 07, 2022 ) =
* Bulk Actions Improvements for Contacts
* Integrations Improvements
* Automation triggers issues are fixed
* UI & UX improvements

= 2.5.3 (Date: February 01, 2022) =
* Support older version of WordPress (< 5.9)
* Fix User Data Sync Issue

= 2.5.2 (Date: February 01, 2022 ) =
* Compatability with WordPress 5.9
* Improved Email Builder
* CSV import duplicate data issue fixed
* Automation Improvement
* Tagging Improvement
* UI&UX improvement in several screens across the app

= 2.5.1 (Date: January 28, 2022) =
* Improved Contact import
* Contact Search and Segment Improvement
* Email Campaign improvement and better reporting
* Automation Triggers and Actions improvements
* More Integrations
* Framework update.
* Tag & List add/remove confirmation

= 2.3.0 (Date: October 25, 2021) =
* Seamless contact import experience
* Persistent contact page
* Improvements to Email Templates and Editor
* Ability to change automation trigger
* Fixed: Template Sorting
* Fixed: Unsubscription on email sequence
* Fixed: Bounce Handler with SendGrid
* Added Integration with ThriveCart (Addon)
* Added Addons page to get all the free addons at once

= 2.2.2 (Date: July 21, 2021) =
* Hot Fixed release
* RTL issue fixed
* array_diff notice fixed

= 2.2.0 (Date: July 20, 2021) =
* Whole New Dashboard Design
* Added Lots of WooCommerce Integrations
* Added Plain Text Email Template
* Added Fluent Forms force subscribe feature
* User role based tagging feature added
* Added Redirection Option after Double-Optin
* Email Builder Blocks Improvements
* Add Option to remove contact on WP User delete
* Showing in details purchase history from WooCommerce on Contact Screen
* Webhook bounce handler with all major Email Service providers
* REST API

= 2.0.4 (Date: June 03, 2021) =
* This is a minor update (no new feature, sorry!)
* Fix CRON Issues for some specific server
* UI Color issue fixed
* Fluent Forms conditional issues fixed

= 2.0.3 (Date: May 07, 2021) =
* Fix CRON Jobs issues
* Image alignment issue for Emails fixed
* Add Selected Days to Sending Emails for Email Sequences

= 2.0.2 (Date: May 03, 2021) =
* Condition Content Block for Oxygen Builder
* Restart Automation For Repeat Contact action
* Color Codes for Automation Blocks
* Email Sending Speed Improvement
* Build-in Documentation Page
* UI Improvements
* Lots Improvements and Fixes
* Added Search Feature for Tags and Lists UI

= 2.0.1 (Date: March 31, 2021) =
* CSV Import issue fixed
* Few UI issue improvement

= 2.0.0 (Date: March 30, 2021) =
* Automation Funnels Improvement
* RTL issues resolved
* Translation-Ready
* Email Builder Improvements
* CSV Import issues fixed
* Email sending speed improvement
* Contact Data syncing with WordPress Users
* Overall UI and REST API improvements

= 1.1.93 (Date: February 05, 2021) =
* PHP 8.0 Compatible
* Setup wizard fixed

= 1.1.92 (Date: January 25, 2021) =
* Added Post/Page Block for Dynamic content based on tag or login state
* Added feature to delete old logs
* Added all emails activity page
* Fix issue on dynamic smart tags on the email subject
* UI improvement
* Added FluentSMTP Support

= 1.1.91 (Date: November 27, 2020) =
* List Action issue resolved
* Prepare For WordPress 5.6
* Editor Improvement
* Custom HTML parser for Email Campaign Fix

= 1.1.90 (Date: November 23, 2020) =
* Email Builder Improvement
* Inline Contact Tagging with Fluent Forms
* Better Email and Automation Reporting from Contact Profile
* Rename Campaign from any campaign screen
* Better Automation Visibility
* Automation Trigger related bug fixed

= 1.1.80 (Date: November 19, 2020) =
* Short URL redirect issue resolved
* Tag Automation Trigger fixed
* Automation Action Fixes

= 1.1.7 (Date: November 14, 2020) =
* Contact Search Improvement
* Automation Improvement
* User Data endpoint improvements
* Bounce Handler Improvement
* Internal Improvements

= 1.1.5 (Date: October 29, 2020) =
* Email Builder improvement
* Email Campaign Duplication
* Automation Funnel Improvement
* Added global reply configuration
* Improved Amazon SES Bounce Handler

= 1.1.4 (Date: October 25, 2020) =
* Funnel Reporting improvement
* Fix issue for double optin + Automation trigger
* UI Improvements
* Show CRM Profile Link in Edit user screen

= 1.1.3 (Date: October 23, 2020) =
* Funnel Benchmark issue has been fixed
* Added RTL support
* Bulk Email Sending Memory issue has been fixed
* Added Duplicate Automation Feature
* Added More Hooks for 3rd Party Developers
* Improvement on Big Lists for email sending
* Oxygen Builder Compatibility issues fixed

= 1.1.2 (Date: October 16, 2020) =
* Funnel automation fix with Fluent Forms
* Segmentation Selection fix
* Fix custom fields mapping
* Double Opt-in Fixed and controlled
* Added search on Emails
* Added More API endpoints
* Overall performance improvement

= 1.1.1 (Date: October 09, 2020) =
* Massive Optimization for large lists like 300K
* Fixed API namespace fixed
* WPFusion & MailOptin Issue fixed
* Unsubscribe Page improvement
* Step save on email campaign

= 1.0.8 (Date: October 07, 2020) =
* Fixed unsubscription issue
* Custom filed mapper has been added with Fluent Froms
* Funnel renamed to Automations
* Fix language text-doamin
* Internal Improvements

= 1.0.6 (Date: October 02, 2020) =
* Fix Double Optin Issues
* Improved Tools Page

= 1.0.3 (Date: October 01, 2020) =
* Fix Tag creation title
* Fix form creation wizard
* Fix Setup wizard

= 1.0.1 (Date: October 01, 2020) =
* Few Typo Fix
* List issue fix in funnel

= 1.0.0 (Date: September 29, 2020) =
* Initial Launch
* 1482 git commits so far
* 1982 cup of coffee (Just kidding, We lost count)
* Work of 1 year + 5 developers
* Let's make WordPress great!

== Upgrade Notice ==
The latest version is compatible with the previous version, So nothing to worry.