Current when a contact get unsubscribed, the user's display provides NO indication that they were "unsubscribe". They should be given to option "do you really want to unsubscribe" or not.
The same thing happens when a person is sent a CC "resubscribe" email and they do the requested action, there is NO indication if they were successful or not.
Hello @JohnK6030 ,
This is already the default functionality when a contact unsubscribes via the footer link in emails sent through us. There is also a confirmation when contacts clicks the resubscribe link in resubscription emails, and confirms the resubscription.
You can setup your account to receive daily subscriber updates, if so desired. If you're wanting an immediate notification for each individual new subscriber / resubscribe, then that is currently a feature request.
The confirmations for unsubscribing and resubscribing display for whomever accesses those coded links and follows through on the process of the un/resubscription. If you need examples of what the contacts would have seen, then please refer to the articles linked in my earlier response.
OK, but what about enhancements so the contact knows what they did "unsubscribe" and "been successful when they resubscribe"
Do I need to do more then what I have done to make the above a "requested enhancement"?
There wouldn't really be a way to further "enhance" this, since contacts are already made aware of what they've unsubbed from, and given the chance to resub if they think they made a mistake. Similarly if they resubscribe, they are explicitly told they can unsub again, if they feel they made a mistake.
The confirmation pages that explicitly display when they've confirmed their un/resubscription are anti-spam law compliant, and considered best practice for this industry. On a personal note, this matches up with other systems I've unsubbed and resubbed / changed my list options within. With all that in mind, I'm not entirely sure what else your contacts would be expecting, that wouldn't brush against our legal / anti-spam compliance obligations, nor be a considered a nuissance by others doing the same actions.
For what it is worth,
when I "unsubscribe/cancelation" from an internet, I always", to the best of my recall, received an response from that vendor that I "have unsubscribed" and/or give the opportunity to cancel my 'unsubscribe" request.
Likewise, when I start/restart an internet service, a "welcome" type message is received.
From your last reply, my contacts will have be contacted by me/my organization for both cases., as I previously have had to do.
Disappointed!
Unsubscribing from emails is different from unsubscribing from a paid subscription service / cancelling an account, and have different legal obligations. The same applies to starting up a new account / paying for a subscription again. Different situations, different processes, different legal obligations. It's why, for example, you can unsubscribe from all general marketing emails from our company, but you can't technically unsubscribe from major account update emails without wholly cancelling and deleting your account.
If you have concerns with this process, you may wish to reach out to your representative / MP to request a change to how email communications are legally handled.
Regardless of how disappointed you are by this, we (and thus all of our customers) have legal and anti-spam obligations that must be met, which limits the degree to which we can poke and prod contacts when they've un/resubscribed. Since there's nothing further to be gained by this conversation, and the reasoning that your original request isn't feasible has already been addressed, the thread will be locked from further commenting.
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