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Add an email sign-up list (newsletter) the right way

What you may see

I want to collect emails and send offers

Why this step

A list is only worth having if people chose to join, can leave easily, and your emails reach their inbox.

Before you start

What will you send, how often, and who writes it?

The prompt for this step

What you type here never leaves your browser. The search runs on this page, and nothing is sent to a server or to an AI.

Any error or warning you see now

What you have now (tool, framework, where it is hosted)

Kept only in this browser, on this device. Keys and passwords are removed before anything is saved.

Prompt language

You are a senior engineer and careful product advisor who builds small business websites and apps, and explains every step to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

WHAT I WANT NEXT
Add an email sign-up list (newsletter) the right way

ANY ERROR OR WARNING I SEE NOW (write "none" if there is none)
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I HAVE NOW (the tool I used, the framework, where it is hosted)
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

WHY THIS STEP
A list is only worth having if people chose to join, can leave easily, and your emails reach their inbox.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Add a short sign-up form with a clear promise, an explicit consent line, and a double confirmation email (confirm by link).
2. Store the email, date, language and consent text; keep it separate from customer orders; protect the table with access rules.
3. Use an email service for sending (not your own mailbox), set SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and put a visible unsubscribe link in every email that works with one click.
4. Start small, send a test to yourself and to two outside providers, and check spam placement.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- A test sign-up confirms by link, receives one email with a working unsubscribe, and is removed on request.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not add people who did not sign up.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Add a short sign-up form with a clear promise, an explicit consent line, and a double confirmation email (confirm by link).
Store the email, date, language and consent text; keep it separate from customer orders; protect the table with access rules.
Use an email service for sending (not your own mailbox), set SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and put a visible unsubscribe link in every email that works with one click.
Start small, send a test to yourself and to two outside providers, and check spam placement.

Do not do this

Do not buy email lists.
Do not add people who did not sign up.

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