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Free Plugin by wpdevelop v2.0.7

Email Reminders

Sending friendly email reminders or follow-up emails based on custom rules.

Email Reminders

The facts

Rating
3.5★ from 2
Active installs
100+
Price
Free
Last updated
3 Dec 2025
Added
Aug 2020
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
WP 6.9.7
Requires PHP
5.6
Downloads
7,861

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Email Reminders is a WordPress plugin designed to facilitate the sending of email reminders and follow-up emails based on specific rules derived from contact data. It allows you to automate the process of sending emails before or after events, making it suitable for users who need to manage communication related to appointments or events.

The plugin features a user-friendly admin panel with AJAX capabilities, enabling real-time searching and management of reminders and contacts. You can create new contacts, import them from CSV files, and configure rules for sending reminders based on various parameters, such as time and contact details.

Best for: This plugin suits users who need to manage email communication for events and appointments.

What it does well

  • Automated email reminders via CRON
  • Manual sending of reminders from the admin panel
  • Integration with Booking Calendar plugin
  • Real-time searching of reminders and contacts
  • Customisable rules for email reminders

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on user experience and support
  • No advanced features mentioned for complex scenarios

Verdict

Email Reminders offers useful functionality for automating email reminders, but its effectiveness may depend on the specific needs of your site and user base.

From the developer

wpdevelop's own description of Email Reminders, lightly tidied.

Reminders it’s ready to send emails, that was created based on Rules from specific Contacts.
It can be emails that are sending before or after specific time to the event from Contact data.
Like follow-up emails or friendly reminders about upcoming events.

Plugin Homepage | Support

Features

Reminders

  • Create and send email reminders and follow-up emails.
  • Automatic sending of email reminders via CRON.
  • Manually send specific email reminder(s) from admin panel.
  • Listing and real time (ajax) text searching of specific email reminder at reminders page. You can easily send or delete certain reminder.
  • You can filter reminders to show only sent or waiting to send emails reminders, or both.
  • Checking the status near each reminder (sent or not sent), as well as the name of the email template that uses the specific email reminder.

Contacts

  • Easily create new contact based on customized contact form.
  • Ability to import contacts from CSV files.
  • Native integration with [Booking Calendar] (https://wordpress.org/plugins/booking/ “Booking Calendar”) plugin. Import all existing bookings. Create contacts in real time after creation of new bookings.
  • Real time (ajax) text searching of specific contact.
  • Ability to edit contact details and deletion of specific contacts.

Rules

  • Rules configuration for creation of new email-reminders from existing contacts based on multiple parameters. For example, creation new email-reminders from contacts, where country is USA, and date of creation of contact 7 days ago, etc…
  • Configuration of time based parameters, which provide ability to configure rules, like: “reminder – 1 day before the event”, “follow-up email – 7 days after the event”, “after 1.5 months”, etc…
  • Ability to create several email templates and select specific email template for specific rules for creation of email reminders.
  • Manually run specific rule to create email reminders from admin panel.
  • Automatic creation of email reminders via CRON.
  • Ability to edit rule details and delete of specific rules.
  • If you have thousands of contacts, and you only need to handle the latest and not all together, you can define contact ID from which the rule will be executed.

  • Mobile friendly.

  • Ajax based admin panel.

Email Reminders is great for

  • Send friendly reminders about upcoming events.
  • Send follow-up emails after specific action.

Read the full description on the official page →

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