As we are preparing to launch Oempro4 tomorrow, we already focused on the coming soon plug-ins and updates. New Oempro4 backend provides great flexibility to add new features and improve existing ones.

After the release of Oempro4 ESP Edition, we will be adding a unique, highly useful feature into Oempro4 ESP Edition which will help you to integrate ESP Edition with your payment gateway to let you accept email marketing service fees from your customers online without any delay.

We already added PayPal, ShareIt.com and 2Checkout.com payment gateway integrations. However, looking forward to hear your other payment gateway suggestions that you want to see in Oempro4 ESP in the near future.

Please contact support {at} octeth {dot} com for your payment gateway integration requests.

As we are only 4 days away from Oempro4 release, I wanted to share some pricing and licensing information with you.

Oempro4 will have two editions named as;

• Corporate Edition
• ESP Edition

Corporate Edition, $345 per license

This edition is the correct choice for individuals, business owners and marketing agencies. By using this edition, you can run professional email campaigns for your own business or for your customers.

This edition comes with 20 user accounts which means you can create 20 different user accounts in Oempro4 and let them run their own campaigns, manage their own lists. More user accounts can be purchased later on.

ESP Edition, $745 per license

This edition is the correct choice for ESPs (Email Service Providers) and anyone who is interested in running a great email marketing business just like ConstantContact, Aweber or Sendloop.

ESP Edition comes with unlimited user accounts and payment system integrated. You can create (or let your website visitors to sign-up as a user) unlimited user accounts, set different payment plans for each user and track statistics from your management cockpit. ESP provides all required features for running a successful email marketing business.

Service Fees

With the release of Oempro4, our service fees are also going to change:

• 6 months free Upgrade and Support Service with Oempro4 purchase
• One time Free Installation Service with Oempro4 purchase
• After 6 months, you can extend your Upgrade and Support Service at anytime for only $99 / year
• Installation Service, $39
• We will also start providing professional server setup and maintenance service. This service has a limited slot only. Please contact us for more information.

Oempro4 Licensing

Just like the current Oempro3 licensing, each Oempro4 license can be installed and used on 1 domain only. For installing the same license to a second or more domains, additional Oempro4 licenses must be purchased. Additional licenses can be purchased with special discounts.

Oempro4 Source Code

We were delivering Oempro3 source code as 100% open source. In Oempro4, PHP files that contain core functions will be encrypted. This will not affect your branding or customization capabilities. In fact, customization, branding and localization is even easier than before. To run Oempro4, you will need to have safe_mode turned OFF and enable_dl turned ON in your server PHP.INI setting file.

In following days, we will publish a test application which will test your server settings and decide if Oempro4 can run on your server or not. It’s designed and developed to run on almost all VPS and dedicated servers. Shared hostings will not be supported but Oempro4 can still be used on shared hostings even we do not recommend.

Oempro4 System Requirements

Oempro4 mostly works with default settings on your server. However, there are some requirements which should be provided in your server. We will publish a detailed requirements list and test script in following days, but briefly let me list them below:

Server side requirements:

• PHP safe_mode should be turned OFF (default setting in PHP)
• PHP enable_dl should be turned ON (default setting in PHP)
• VPS or dedicated servers (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, etc. – *nix servers recommended)
• PHP5 or higher
• MySQL4 or higher

End user side requirements:

• Safari 3 (or higher), Internet Explorer 7 (or higher), Firefox 2 (or higher) is required for user and administration areas

Upgrading From Oempro3 To Oempro4

Current users of Oempro3 that have active Upgrade and Support Service will be able to upgrade to Oempro4 Corporate Edition for free. To upgrade from Oempro3 to Oempro4 ESP Edition, a small amount of upgrade fee should be paid (will be announced later). Oempro3 users that have purchased OemBilling in the past will be able to upgrade to Oempro4 ESP Edition for free.

Oempro4 is developed from scratch with a better database and backend design. It’s completely different than Oempro3, therefore upgrading *all* data from Oempro3 to Oempro4 is impossible. We will allow Oempro3 users to run both Oempro3 and Oempro4 at the same time until you migrate your data from Oempro3 to Oempro4.

Oempro4 Discussion Forums

We just opened Oempro4 discussion forum, developer forum (for API and plug-in development), plug-in and localization forums at http://octeth.com/forum/

What About Plug-Ins?

Oempro3 users that have purchased Oempro3 plug-ins in the past will be able to start downloading new plug-in versions in December. We are going to release Oempro4 compatible versions of plug-ins in just a month.

Questions? Sure!

Don’t hesitate to contact us anytime. We will be happy to hear from you.

Thank You!

After 10 months of heavy development, Oempro4 is about to be released. We want to thank all our fellow customers who encouraged us with their great feedbacks. Oempro4 is the result of a great co-operation between Octeth and Octeth’s fellow customers. Thank You!

Future?

Oempro4 is now more powerful, more flexible and more extendable. With the power of Oempro4, we will continue adding great features and plug-ins to the family. The best of all, it’s now open to all developers out there. Developers can build their own plug-ins or applications communicating with Oempro4′s state-of-art API.

As we are getting closer to the Oempro4 release date (18th November), we are adding final feature sets and finalizing API backend.

In this post, I will show you some settings screens of Oempro4 subscriber lists as well as list statistics screen.

In Oempro4, every email marketing element is owned by a subscriber list. Auto responders, custom fields, subscribers, opt-in settings and other settings are private to each subscriber list.

Subscriber list browsing

This screen displays your subscriber lists and give you enough information about total subscribers and subscription trend in your lists.

Subscriber list overview

When you click one of your subscriber lists, Oempro4 will display you the available list options and brief statistics about your list.

Auto responders

Auto responders can be linked to three subscriber activities which are subscriptions, link clicks and forward to friend activities.

Subscriber list navigation

You can easily navigate between different sections of your subscriber list.

Email Builder

Oempro4 comes with a state-of-art email builder. This tool lets you to create excellent emails on the fly. These emails can be used for auto responders, opt-in confirmation emails and campaigns. You can design your email on the fly by using Oempro4′s new rich text editor or fetch it from a remote URL or create it based on email templates.

Subscriber list statistics

Oempro4 provides you all possible statistics about your lists. You can see your list performance day by day.

Subscriber import

Importing your email addresses into Oempro4 is quite easy. Just copy&paste or upload your file. Then map fields. That’s all.

Subscriber browse

Browse your subscribers quickly. Search them easily.

Web services

Link Oempro4 subscription and unsubscription activities to your other applications with web services functionality. Create as many web service URL as you need.

Oempro4 API

The most important new feature in Oempro4: API. Communicate with Oempro4 features easily by using API. You can access to almost all features of Oempro4 quickly. Build great applications based on Oempro4.

Personalization in emails

Personalization is now easier and quicker. Open the personalization list by simply pressing % character on your keyboard.

Watch the following screen cast to view an example: Oempro Personalization

We have been testing this functionality for more than 7 months on our hosted email marketing service Sendloop.com and now implemented it into Oempro4. Oempro4 is now fully integrated with your Google Analytics account.

This means better campaign analytics and statistics after your recipient clicks a link and arrives on your website. You can track any possible statistics data of your email campaign and with the power of Google Analytics integration, you will be able to continue tracking your recipient activities after clicking a link in your email campaign and landing to your website.

Think about seeing the sales conversion rate of your email campaign, or think about seeing the number of recipients who clicked a link in your email campaign and then contacted you on your website.

By just clicking a single checkbox, you can enable the Google Analytics integration for your email campaign and enjoy tracking recipient activities on your website.

Outsourced lists no longer exist in Oempro4.

In Oempro3, you can create outsourced subscriber lists (lists that are linked to third party MySQL tables) and send email campaigns to your subscriber data which is stored in third party MySQL tables. Even this feature sounds good, there were lots of difficulties and details which were keeping it away from stability.

In Oempro4 development process, we thought a lot about this feature and finally decided to remove it from the application. Besides outsourced list, we will be providing “synchronization” feature which will allow you to keep Oempro4 subscriber lists synchronized with your third party MySQL table(s). This new feature will still provide the opportunity of outsourced lists but also provide reliability and stability.

Oempro4 will bring several enhancements and functionality to your email marketing operations. But there is something else which makes it even more beneficial: Integration Opportunities!

Oempro4 will include full-featured API backend that means that you can easily integrate it into any system, project or application. It uses basic HTTP POST and GET methods to accept data and returns JSON or XML data. So simple, so powerful!

Think about developing an Adobe Air application which is based on Oempro. Think about developing a Mac OS X widget displaying your campaign statistics. Think about running a completely seperate online service which is based on Oempro4 in the backend. All of these and more is possible with Oempro4.

Oempro4 API includes 99.99% of functionalities that are included in Oempro4. It’s easy to use, it’s easy to integrate.

With the release of Oempro4, we will be opening our new website and developer connection area.

Stay tuned.

As we are coming to the end of Oempro4 development, the upgrade procedure is getting more important for us.

It’s our primary goal to make the upgrade process quite straight-forward for all our thousands of fellow Oempro3 users.

Oempro4 backend and database structure is developed from scratch with latest techniques and methods. Therefore, we will be providing an easy-to-use upgrade utility with Oempro4 which will analyze your Oempro3 data and convert it to Oempro4 data.

We believe that upgrade process will not take more than 10 minutes for an Oempro3 owner which has huge Oempro3 data.

The cost of upgrading from Oempro3 to Oempro4 will be free if you have an active service subscription. So, if it’s expired, I strongly recommend you to extend it for $59 / year now.

Just a quick update about our office working hours during National Holiday. Octeth HQ will be closed between 29th September and 6th October. We will not be able to answer phone calls but we will do our best to check our emails frequently as much as we can for urgent support requests.
Octeth Team will again be available on 6th October 9am GMT+2.
We thank you for your patience during the Holiday period.