Meal marketing emails

[smoyte]

• Should only be sent out to those not already signed up
• If Settings.meal_marketing == "off", don't send
• If "late_menu_only" send only if menu is added within Settings.meal_marketing_lead_days days of served_at date
• If "all" send for all meals
• If "late_only" add "(Menu added!)" or something to subject line
• Send meal_marketing_lead_days in advance at the usual time

Originally created by Tom Smyth at 2015-09-20 02:03, migrated from redmine-#3146

[smoyte]

FYI - Adi's system has was designed to only send notifications about menus which were added late, that is, less than a week before the date. We discussed this years ago and we decided that if we sent a notice about every meal, it would become overwhelming noise.

From my user research interviews, we found that most people sign up for a week's worth of meals on the weekend. If a menu is entered after that, people are likely to miss it, so this email was supposed to be a shaming tactic to let people know that the head cook has been slacking off, and they're catching up now.

I propose that the subject line of these notices should be "notice of late menu entered: cheeseburgers" or something like that.

By Willie Northway at 2015-09-21 00:10

[smoyte]

• Subject changed from Email notifications for menu add to Email notifications for late menu add

Sounds smart, I like it.

By Tom Smyth at 2015-09-23 05:44

[smoyte]

• Subject changed from Email notifications for late menu add to Meal marketing emails
  • Description updated (diff)
  • Estimate set to 1.00 h

By Tom Smyth at 2016-03-03 20:40

[smoyte]

• Priority changed from 3 to 4
  • Estimate changed from 1.00 h to 3.00 h

By Tom Smyth at 2018-04-21 18:29

[smoyte]

We would have to add an email preferences page before we did this so people could opt out.