If you haven’t already heard the news, prepare yourself!

Benchmark has joined forces with Hatchbuck! Our companies officially merged on September 1st, 2019.

With this merger, we now have nearly 130 employees and 150,000 users across 15 countries and 9 languages. Our office will remain in Los Angeles and will be led by Jonathan Herrick, former CEO and Cofounder of Hatchbuck.

There are no changes to fear with our Benchmark Email product. Instead, additions that will make your email marketing journey that much easier! Hatchbuck is well known for its easy to use CRM, and we are so excited for our Benchmark users to take advantage of it to help them grow and streamline their sales process.

Please stay tuned to our monthly email newsletter for further upcoming announcements!

Are you a new user? If so, you are in luck. We are running a fresh new promotion for all of our new users to get one on one help from our experts.

Claim your offer within 24 hours of signing up and get 1 hour of email strategy and email campaign building with one of our experts! The promotion banner will appear on your homepage for only 48 hours.

We look forward to all of your questions!

Our Free English users can now access the Benchmark CRM directly from their Benchmark Email account.

We will slowly roll out to our other regions in the weeks to come.

This week our team removed Google + from our email editors. You will no longer have the option to add a Google + account.

To learn more about Google’s decision to discontinue this service, please click here.

Benchmark Email launched its RESTful APIs for public use. Partners and Developers can now create apps and integrations faster and in a more organized manner. If you’re interested in putting Benchmark Email’s RESTful APIs to use, you can access them through our developer’s page. With our APIs, you can make 500 calls every two minutes and 60,000 calls total each day.

To put our APIs to use, you’ll need to access your Benchmark Email API token.

We’re excited to announce new integrations with Formstack, Slack and Pipedrive. Also, with customer support systems Freshdesk, Desk.com by Salesforce and LiveChat.

Send automated emails based on engagement. Check out our new automations (renamed from autoresponders). Don’t worry, the list based, triggered automations are still there too!

This month, we’re excited to announce new integrations with Wufoo, as well as CRM tools Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SugarCRM and eCommerce platforms including BigCommerce, LemonStand and Volusion.

Monthly fees for managing events have been eliminated. The fees per ticket have been reduced and can now be applied to the customer. Plus, you can now use your Authorize.net account to accept payments.

New expaned options for sub-accounts! Master accounts can now share images with sub-accounts.

The media gallery in the Drag & Drop Email Designer has been redesigned to be even more intuitive to your needs.

In our Drag & Drop Email Designer, footer links in email campaigns are now customizable.

New List Based plans. All List Based plans up to 50k come with unlimited sending. Any plan higher than 50k is able to send 14X the number of their subscriber plan.

You can now integrate your events from Eventbrite with templates for single or multiple events.

We have designed and coded a new web page ad just for you!

The Benchmark mobile app has launched for Android. This includes improvements to the mobile app as well.

See what other Benchmark users are doing in the redesigned Community. A great way to be inspired for your own email campaigns.