🚀 Getting Started And Activating Your License

ResultsAiX Mailer is a complete email marketing system that runs inside your own WordPress admin. Your subscribers, lists, emails and reports live in your own database, on your own hosting, and you send through the sending service you choose.

This guide takes you from the plugin zip to a working, licensed install. It covers installing, activating your key, the licence panel, and where to go next.

Before you start:

• WordPress 5.8 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.
• Your licence key. It starts with AIMAILER and was emailed to you when you bought. It is also in your customer portal.
• The plugin zip from your customer portal at resultswithkevin.com/portal/.

Installing the plugin:

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins, then Add New Plugin, then Upload Plugin.
2. Choose the zip file and click Install Now.
3. Click Activate Plugin.
4. A new item called AiX Mailer appears in the WordPress sidebar. Click it to open the Mailer.

The first time you open WordPress after activating, the Mailer takes you straight to the licence panel so you can add your key.

Where to find it:

The licence lives at the top of Setup, then Settings. There is no separate licence tab. If you follow an old link or bookmark to a licence page, it opens Settings for you.

Activating your licence:

1. Open AiX Mailer in the WordPress sidebar.
2. In the blue menu bar, click Setup, then Settings.
3. In the License panel at the top, paste your key into the Activate your license key box.
4. Click Activate, or press Enter in the box.
5. The page reloads and the Status shows Active.

The licence lets you send broadcasts, test your sending connection and use the AI features, and it keeps updates coming so you always have the current version.

What the licence panel shows:

• License Key: your key, partly hidden with stars so nobody can copy it from a screenshot.
• Status: Active once the licence server has confirmed your key for this site.
• Licensed To: the email address the key belongs to.
• Activated Domains: every site this key is active on for the Mailer, with a count such as 2/3 sites used. The site you are on is marked (this site).
• Change license key: once a key is stored, the box is labelled Change license key and the button reads Replace key. Paste a new key and click Replace key to switch.
• Refresh License Info: asks the licence server for the latest details, such as the list of activated domains.
• Deactivate This Site: releases the slot this site uses, for example before you move the Mailer to a new domain.
• All my keys and downloads: opens your customer portal in a new tab.

Moving to a new site or freeing a slot:

Each key covers a set number of your own websites, and the panel shows how many are used and how many slots remain. To use a slot somewhere else, click Remove next to any other site in the Activated Domains box and confirm Free the slot. That frees the slot for a new install. It does not switch the plugin off on that other site.

To release the site you are on, click Deactivate This Site instead and confirm.

What happens day to day:

The Mailer re-checks your key with the licence server once a day in the background. If the server cannot be reached, for example during a short network problem, nothing changes and your Mailer keeps working as normal. You never need to re-enter your key.

Finding your way around:

Every Mailer screen has the same blue menu bar at the top.

• Dashboard: your numbers at a glance. See The Dashboard At A Glance.
• Get Started: a checklist of setup steps. It leaves the menu once every step is done.
• New Broadcast: starts a new email to your list.
• Emails: Broadcasts, Automations, 25 Prebuilt Automations and Templates.
• Audience: Subscribers, Verify Leads, Tidy Names, Scoring, Lists, Segments and Imports.
• Reports: opens, clicks, list growth and list health over any date range.
• Forms: sign-up forms for your website.
• Delivery: Sending, Deliverability and Safety.
• AI Setup: AI Studio and Train Your AI.
• Training: guides inside the plugin.
• Setup: Settings, Integrations, Diagnostics, Upgrades and Resources.
• Hub: the ResultsAiX Hub.

Press Ctrl+K, or click Ctrl+K to search at the end of the bar, to search for a person, an email address, a list, a tag or a setting.

Safe Mode starts on:

A new install starts with Safe Mode on. An amber banner at the top of every Mailer screen says so. While it is on, real emails are held back, so you can import your list and build everything calmly. Test sends to yourself still go out. When you are ready to send for real, turn it off on Delivery, then Safety. See Safe Mode: Moving A Real List Without Accidents.

A real example:

Anna Hale runs Leafwise Gardening at yoursite.com. She uploads the zip, activates the plugin and lands on the licence panel. She pastes her AIMAILER key, clicks Activate, and the Status turns Active, Licensed To anna@yoursite.com.

Later she sets up a test copy of her site at staging.yoursite.com and activates the same key there too. When she has finished testing, she opens the licence panel on the live site, clicks Remove next to staging.yoursite.com, and the slot is free again for her next project.

Tips:

• Work through the Get Started checklist next. It tells you exactly what is left before your first send. See The Setup Screen.
• Connect your sending service before anything else. See Setting Up Sending With SMTP.
• Leave Safe Mode on while you import an existing list, then turn it off when you are ready.
• Lost your key? Click Find it in your portal under the key box, or All my keys and downloads.