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I've been asking this hundreds of times but never got an answer, why doesn't Sendy add a visual e-mail builder?

Customers are going crazy over the issues with Wysiwyg and tables to make simple two-column designs, while drag/drop builders are straightforward and simple while keeping the code fully compatible with mailers.

Basically all competitors have drag/drop builders now, even the simpler one-time-pay scripts on Envato.

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check out https://mjml.io/. Its a great solution for creating email layouts in code. I use it with vcode where it has an option to preview the result.

Many ESPs these days license 3rd party editors that cost them recurring fees on a per user basis. Unlike hosted solutions, like BigMailer.io or SendGrid (both license drag and drop Bee editor), Sendy charges a very low one-time (!) fee of $59 to download the software once.

Sendy's pricing model simply doesn't allow such 3rd party product licensing and I imagine maintaining a heavy front-end application like a drag-and-drop template builder across the variety of clients is too costly (dev and support time) as well.

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