Acelle Mail — Self-Hosted Email Marketing Software with Marketing Automation, Drip Campaigns, A/B Testing & SaaS Framework

A complete email marketing platform — sending infrastructure, marketing automation, drip campaigns, A/B testing, IP warmup, list verification, signup forms, and a multi-tenant SaaS framework — built on PHP and Laravel. One-time license, runs on your own server.

Thousands of licenses sold worldwide. In active development for over a decade.

Acelle Mail is a self-hosted email marketing platform built on the latest Laravel framework, in active development since 2016. It is used by in-house marketing teams, agencies running campaigns for client portfolios, SaaS operators reselling email service, and cold-outreach teams running high-volume sending. Subscriber data, campaigns, and sending credentials stay on your own server. The license is one-time, with no per-contact or per-send fees on top of the platform.

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Who Acelle Mail Is Built For

Email marketing agencies and freelancers — run campaigns for multiple clients, white-label per tenant, bill per list, per send, or per subscriber
SaaS operators — multi-tenant deployments with customer accounts, plan and quota management, and recurring billing through Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Paddle, Razorpay, or Paystack
In-house marketing teams — route sending through your own SMTP, Amazon SES, SendGrid, or Mailgun, outside per-contact pricing
Cold outreach teams — Spintax for content variation, custom tracking domain, IP warmup, per-server deliverability controls, multi-server load distribution
Newsletter publishers, bloggers, course creators — scheduled broadcasts, RSS-to-email automation, embedded signup forms, subscriber segmentation
E-commerce stores — behavior-triggered cart-abandonment recovery, product-launch broadcasts, re-engagement workflows, transactional sends via REST API
Hosting providers — email marketing offered as a tenant-isolated add-on alongside existing hosting services

What Makes Acelle Different

AI plugin layer (added 2026) — Acelle exposes the AI hooking points and engine adapters; the AI features themselves ship as a first-party plugin. Out-of-the-box adapters for self-hosted Ollama, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude. Disable, replace, or extend the plugin through the standard plugin system without touching core.
IP warmup module (added 2026) — Linear and Exponential ramp strategies, automatic daily quota, per-server warmup state. No external warmup service required.
Visual automation engine — workflow editor with triggers, conditions, branches, delays, and per-step delivery analytics. Personalization is driven by subscriber engagement signals.
Multi-tenant SaaS framework — customer accounts, plans, quotas, throttling, recurring billing, per-tenant branding. The pieces are in place; you don’t have to wire them yourself.
Sending driver registry — Amazon SES, SendGrid (API + SMTP), Mailgun, SparkPost, ElasticEmail, Postal, Blastengine, Gmail OAuth, local mailers (Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail), and generic SMTP. New vendors plug in through a clean driver interface.
Distributed sending — worker processes on dedicated nodes, Supervisor concurrency, remote Redis queues, internal caching. Throughput scales horizontally.
Track record — in active development since 2016, with thousands of licenses sold worldwide and a sustained release cadence. Codebase on the latest Laravel and PHP.
One-time license — single payment, lifetime updates through the in-app upgrade manager. No platform-level recurring fees.

New A/B Testing Experience

The A/B testing workflow has been redesigned around the way marketers actually plan campaigns. Variants are composed side by side, traffic split is configured in a single panel, and the winner is surfaced automatically once statistical confidence is reached. Pairs naturally with the AI plugin’s subject-line variant generator — six creative angles (curiosity, benefit, urgency, question, number, personalization) feed straight into the test as ready-to-run variants.

Watch the A/B Testing walkthrough on YouTube →

Common Use Cases

Newsletter publishing — schedule weekly or monthly broadcast emails to your subscriber base with the drag-and-drop email builder
Drip campaign sequences — build multi-step automation flows for onboarding, lead nurturing, customer education, upsell, cross-sell, and re-engagement
Cold email outreach — Spintax for unique-per-recipient content, custom tracking domain, IP warmup, deliverability tools, multi-server rotation
Welcome series & subscriber onboarding — auto-responders triggered the moment someone subscribes
Birthday and anniversary campaigns — built-in date triggers fire personalized emails on the right day
Re-engagement / win-back campaigns — segment by inactivity, click history, or last-open date
A/B split testing — test subject lines, sender names, content blocks, send times
Product launch announcements — broadcast to segmented audiences with engagement tracking
Event invitations & RSVP follow-ups — automation flows tied to subscriber actions
Transactional & system notifications — REST API for app-triggered sends from your existing software
RSS-to-email automation — auto-publish blog posts, podcast episodes, or feed updates to subscribers
Cart abandonment recovery — behavior-triggered reminder sequences
SaaS email marketing service — resell Acelle as your own branded email marketing platform with multi-tenant accounts and billing
Agency client management — isolated tenants per client, white-label branding, per-client quotas
Lead magnet & opt-in funnel — embedded forms and popup forms collect subscribers from any website

Complete Feature List — Everything You Need for Email Marketing

Campaigns & Sending

Newsletter campaigns, broadcast emails, mass email sending
A/B split testing for subject lines, sender names, content
AI subject line A/B testing — AI-generated subject variants across six creative angles, A/B tested with automatic winner selection
Drip campaigns and multi-step email sequences
Autoresponder (welcome series, goodbye, birthday, anniversary)
RSS-to-email campaigns — drag-drop the RSS widget into your email
Plain text and HTML emails, hybrid multipart
Multi-threading for high-volume delivery (millions of emails per day)
Auto-scheduling, time-zone aware send times
Spintax for unique cold-email content per recipient
Campaign duplication, draft management, scheduled queue
Per-recipient delivery retry on transient failures

Marketing Automation & Workflow

Visual automation flow designer with drag-and-drop canvas
Triggers: subscribe, unsubscribe, click, open, birthday, anniversary, custom criteria, RSS update, webhook
Conditional branching, multi-step workflows, parallel paths
Behavior-based personalization (open history, click history, engagement score)
Lead nurturing & sales funnel sequences
Welcome and onboarding flows
Re-engagement and win-back campaigns
Per-step analytics and delivery tracking
Webhook-triggered automation for external app integration

Lists, Segmentation & Subscriber Management

Unlimited mailing lists, unlimited subscribers, unlimited custom fields
List segmentation by any field, behavior, tag, or custom criteria
Smart CSV / Excel import with auto field-mapping
Single opt-in and double opt-in support
Custom subscribe / unsubscribe confirmation pages
Embedded subscription forms for any website
Popup subscription forms with click-to-add integration
Bulk operations and list-duplication handling
Subscriber activity timeline (opens, clicks, bounces, complaints)
Custom subscriber tags and notes
GDPR-compliant consent tracking

Email Builder & Templates

Pro Drag & Drop email builder with live preview
Dozens of pre-built responsive email templates
Custom HTML email editor with code view
Mobile-responsive email designs by default
Merge tags, placeholders, dynamic content blocks
YouTube, audio, RSS, image, button widgets
Spintax dynamic content for unique-per-recipient text
Personalization tokens (subscriber fields, custom fields)
Save and reuse custom blocks across campaigns
Email-client compatibility (Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail, Thunderbird)

Sending Infrastructure & SMTP Integration

Amazon SES integration (API + SMTP)
SendGrid integration (Web API + SMTP)
Mailgun, SparkPost, ElasticEmail, Postal, Blastengine
Gmail OAuth driver for Google Workspace senders
Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail local mailer drivers
Generic SMTP relay for any provider (transactional, marketing, or custom relays)
Multi-server load balancing across multiple sending servers
Distributed deployment — sending workers on separate servers
Supervisor concurrency support, remote Redis queues
IP Warmup automation (Linear & Exponential strategies)
Per-server quotas, throttling, and rate limits
Custom tracking domain per server or per customer
SpamAssassin spam check before send
RFC 2822 compliance, full UTF-8 / utf8mb4 support

Tracking, Analytics & Reporting

Open tracking, click tracking, link-by-link analytics
Bounce tracking and bounce-type classification (hard, soft, blocked)
Complaint / FBL handling with auto-unsubscribe
Per-recipient delivery tracking
Click-to-open ratio, engagement scoring
GeoIP location tracking on opens and clicks
Device, OS, and email-client tracking
Interactive charts and data tables
Campaign performance reports
Subscriber activity timeline
Real-time campaign monitoring dashboard
Exportable reports (CSV, PDF where applicable)

Email Verification & Deliverability

Built-in list cleaning via Emailable, Kickbox, ZeroBounce, Debounce, Localmail, Verifyre
Address tagging: Deliverable, Undeliverable, Risky
Bounce handler with IMAP & SSL support
Smart bounce-type detection
Sender reputation management with IP warmup
SPF, DKIM, DMARC compliant sending
Sender domain verification (Amazon SES included)
Automatic suppression list for bounces and complaints
Failed-delivery automatic retry

SaaS Framework, Billing & Multi-Tenancy

Multi-tenant SaaS architecture — isolated customer accounts
Customer subscription management
Service plan builder (per-month, per-year, per-credit, per-list, per-send)
Stripe recurring billing, subscriptions, card-on-file, SCA / 3DS
Braintree, PayPal, Paddle, Razorpay, Paystack
Offline payment workflow with admin approval
Quota management and throttling per customer plan
Multi-currency billing — price plans in any number of currencies; customers subscribe in their preferred one
Sending credit add-ons — sell top-up packs on top of base subscriptions
Automatic recurring billing & charging
White-label per-tenant branding (logo, colors, domain)
Three-tier role system — system roles, operator-defined global roles, and per-customer custom roles
Sub-administrators and admin groups with delegated access and login-as support
Customer sign-up, registration, password recovery flows
Admin override and impersonation tools

API, Webhooks & Integrations

Full REST API for lists, contacts, campaigns, automation, admin tasks
Webhooks for campaign events and subscriber actions
Zapier integration — connect Acelle to 1,000+ apps
Acelle Connect WordPress plugin — sync WordPress users to lists
One-time login token API for SSO scenarios
Plugin system — install .zip plugin packages through the admin UI; supports custom sending drivers, payment gateways, AI engine adapters, and admin UI panels
Embeddable subscription form widgets
Standard JSON request / response, simple HTTP POST/GET

AI Plugin Layer (NEW in 2026)

AI hooking layer — core platform exposes engine adapters and hooking points; AI features ship as a first-party plugin (the acelle/ai plugin)
AI email page builder — describe your campaign, get a designed on-brand email
AI assistant chatbox — help users draft copy, plan campaigns, troubleshoot in-app
AI-powered automation suggestions based on actual subscriber behavior
Engine support — OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and self-hosted Ollama adapters out of the box; additional engines can be added via plugin
Plugin can be disabled, replaced, or extended without touching core
Smart CSV import field-mapping (AI detects subscriber field types)
Smart caching for performance optimization

Internationalization, Branding & Themes

Full i18n / localization support
Built-in English, Italian, Japanese language packs
Custom language editor — translate any text in the app
7 built-in themes: dark, light, red, blue, green, pink, brown
White-label branding — custom logo, colors, custom CSS
Per-user theme selection
Multi-domain support (run multiple brands on one install)

Compliance & Privacy

GDPR compliance with subscriber consent tracking
CAN-SPAM compliance (required unsubscribe link, sender info)
CASL-friendly subscriber records
Custom unsubscribe and preference center pages
Data retention controls and account deletion
Self-hosted — subscriber data never leaves your server
Optional encryption-at-rest for sensitive fields

Operations, Admin & Performance

Admin dashboard with system overview and live stats
Live Upgrade Manager — one-click updates, no reinstall
Multi-process / multi-threading auto-detection
System error notifications in admin area
Performance monitoring, MySQL query optimization
Distributed deployment — workers on separate servers
cPanel, Plesk, and standalone installation guides included
Cron-driven scheduled tasks, no manual intervention required
Built-in backup hooks and upgrade safety checks

AI-Powered Email Marketing (New in 2026)

Acelle 4.2 introduces an AI plugin layer. The platform itself provides the hooking points and engine adapters; the AI features ship as a first-party plugin (acelle/ai) installed through the standard plugin system. Out of the box you get adapters for self-hosted Ollama, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude — you choose the engine, you decide what leaves your server, you hold the API key. The plugin can be disabled, swapped for an alternative, or extended without touching core. Switching engines does not require code changes.

AI Email Builder — describe a campaign in natural language; the configured engine returns an on-brand email draft
AI Assistant — in-app chat for subject-line drafting, copy revision, segment suggestions, and automation guidance. Available to both admin and tenant-side users
AI Subject Line A/B Testing — generate subject variants across six creative angles (curiosity, benefit, urgency, question, number, personalization), run them as an A/B test, and let the winner emerge automatically
Automation Suggestions — trigger and flow recommendations based on actual subscriber engagement, surfaced as proposals rather than fixed templates
Self-Hosted Engine Path — point Acelle at an Ollama instance and AI features run without external API calls; subscriber and campaign data does not leave your server

IP Warmup Strategy (New in 2026)

Acelle IP Warmup report dashboard

IP warmup is the standard way to establish sender reputation with major mailbox providers when you commission a new sending IP or expand throughput on an existing one. Acelle’s warmup module enforces a structured ramp curve, computes the daily quota automatically, and defers excess sending jobs until the next quota window — without depending on an external warmup service.

Multiple warmup strategies (Linear and Exponential growth)
Automatic daily quota calculation based on warmup progress
Prevents over-sending by enforcing strict per-day limits
Automatically delays sending jobs when quota is reached and resumes later
Per-server configuration — independent warmup for each sending server
Detailed tracking of usage including sent, failed, and reserved counts
Fully self-hosted, no external services or API dependencies required

Acelle IP Warmup configuration screen

Visual Marketing Automation & Drip Campaign Designer

The automation module exposes a visual workflow editor where triggers, conditions, branches, delays, and send actions are composed into multi-step subscriber journeys. Per-step delivery analytics are tracked alongside subscriber-level state. Use it for lead-nurturing sequences, welcome and onboarding flows, behavioral re-engagement, drip series, and event-driven follow-ups.

Marketing automation triggers and conditions

Acelle Mail introduction

Email marketing benefits

Email marketing features overview

More Acelle features

Customer reviews of Acelle Mail

List Management, Segmentation & Subscription Forms

Manage mailing lists and subscribers easily — the foundation of any email marketing operation:

Mass import subscribers from Excel or CSV with smart field mapping
Single opt-in and double opt-in support
Custom subscribe / unsubscribe confirmation pages, branded
Autoresponder for subscriber welcome and goodbye emails
List segmentation by any field, tag, behavior, or custom criteria
Bulk operations support for list management
Embedded subscription forms — design, customize, embed on any website
Popup subscription forms — add to your home or landing page in minutes
Custom subscriber fields — collect any data you need
List duplication handling during campaign delivery

Embedded subscription form

Delivery Tracking & Campaign Reporting

Track delivery of every single email sent out from Acelle. Opens, clicks, bounces, and complaints are automatically recorded and visualized using interactive charts and data tables. Acelle’s report types give you the insights you need to improve campaigns over time. Track click-to-open ratio, list growth, engagement scoring, geographic distribution, device usage, and email-client breakdown.

Campaign statistics report

Easy Integration with SMTP & Third-Party Email Services

Sending is delegated through a driver registry. Configure Acelle to send through your own SMTP server (Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail), or through one of the major email service providers shipped out of the box:

Amazon SES — ultra-low-cost transactional and marketing email at scale
SendGrid — Web API and SMTP support, with bounce / complaint webhooks
Mailgun — full API integration with webhook handling
SparkPost — high-volume marketing email
ElasticEmail — budget-friendly bulk sending
Postal — open-source mail delivery platform
Blastengine — Japanese-market email delivery
Gmail OAuth — for Google Workspace senders
Generic SMTP relay for any provider (transactional, marketing, or custom relays)

SendGrid integration Mailgun integration Amazon SES integration SMTP integration Sendmail integration PHP Mail integration

Custom Tracking Domain — Own Your Sender Reputation

Custom tracking domain is an advanced delivery option that rewrites all your email links with your own brand’s domain (for example, links.yourbrand.com instead of a shared tracking domain). Your sender reputation becomes completely your own — not shared with other senders — which greatly improves email deliverability, inbox placement, and brand trust.

SaaS Framework — Resell Email Marketing as a Service

Acelle ships with the pieces required to run email marketing as a multi-tenant service: customer accounts, plan and quota management, billing integration, and per-tenant branding. Suitable for agencies, hosting providers, and SaaS operators offering their own branded email marketing platform:

Manage service package plans (per-month, per-year, per-credit, per-list, per-send)
Manage customer accounts and subscriptions with full lifecycle support
Multi-currency billing — price each plan in any number of currencies (USD, EUR, JPY, ...); customers subscribe in the currency of their choice
Sending credit add-ons — let customers top up sending credits on top of their base subscription when they need extra volume; sold as separate purchasable packs
Stripe recurring billing — subscriptions, card-on-file, SCA / 3DS
Braintree, PayPal, Paddle, Razorpay, Paystack integrations
Accept credit card payments via the gateways above
Offline payment workflow with admin approval and proof-of-payment upload
Advanced quota and throttling management per customer plan
Automatic recurring billing and charging on the schedule you set
White-label branding per tenant
Multi-user team accounts inside each customer tenant (see Roles & Permissions below)

SaaS subscription management

Roles, Permissions & Delegated Access

Acelle ships with a three-tier role system suited to multi-customer deployments. Permissions can be tuned at every level — from a built-in baseline down to a single customer’s team.

System roles — built-in roles for common access patterns; locked by design so they cannot be modified or deleted by accident
Global roles — operator-defined roles shared across every customer account, useful for standardizing permissions in a SaaS deployment
Per-customer custom roles — each customer can define their own roles to match how their team is organized; existing assignments are preserved if a role is disabled and re-enabled later

On the operator side, sub-administrators and admin groups let you delegate management of customers, plans, sending servers, or billing to specific staff without granting full root access. Login-as for admin support workflows is built in — admins can step into a customer’s account to investigate or assist, with the action recorded in the audit trail.

Automation & Autoresponder Triggers

Automation & Auto-Responder features let you automatically or conditionally send email campaigns to your list or individual subscribers in response to events:

List subscription and unsubscription
Subscriber’s birthday and anniversary
Custom criteria (quota exceeding, balance below threshold, plan expiration, custom field changes)
Email open / click follow-ups
RSS feed updates
Webhook events from external systems
Time-based triggers (X days after subscription, scheduled drip steps)

Once configured, automation triggers fire on the per-subscriber schedule for the lifetime of the deployment.

Acelle automation flow

Email Verification & List Cleaning

Email verification ensures that your mailing list is clean and validated, which reduces bounce rate and protects your sender reputation. Acelle Mail integrates with the major email verification services so you can clean lists before every campaign:

Emailable — bulk and real-time verification
Kickbox — deliverability and risk scoring
ZeroBounce — bulk verification with role detection
Debounce, Localmail, Verifyre and more

Verified addresses are tagged Deliverable, Undeliverable, or Risky, so you only send to real, active mailboxes — protecting your sender reputation and inbox placement.

Drag-and-Drop Email Template Builder

Acelle Mail comes with a Pro Drag & Drop Email Builder and dozens of pre-built responsive templates and layouts to start from. Build mobile-friendly emails without writing HTML, or drop into the code view for full control. Includes widgets for YouTube video, audio, RSS, images, buttons, and Spintax dynamic content.

Drag-and-drop email builder UI

RESTful API, Webhooks & Zapier Integration

Acelle’s REST API covers everything you need: lists, contacts, campaigns, automation, admin tasks. Built on simple HTTP POST/GET requests with JSON responses. Plus webhooks for campaign events, and the official Zapier integration connecting Acelle to 1,000+ apps across CRM, e-commerce, payment, productivity, and communication categories.

What is Zapier? Zapier is an online automation tool that connects your favorite apps across CRM, e-commerce, payment, productivity, and communication categories — 1,000+ in total — so you can automate repetitive tasks without writing code or hiring developers.

High-Volume Sending Architecture

The sending pipeline is multi-threaded and scales horizontally. Worker processes run on dedicated nodes, supervised under Supervisor for concurrency and lifecycle management, and coordinate through remote Redis queues. Production deployments handle throughput in the millions of recipients per day. Campaign scheduling honors per-subscriber time zones.

Live Upgrade Manager — One-Click Updates

Acelle Mail ships with the Upgrade Manager dashboard which lets you upgrade to any newer version with a single click. New releases ship weekly to monthly. No manual backups required, no reinstalls, no data loss — all subscriber data, campaigns, and settings are retained across versions.

Multi-Language, Multi-Theme, White-Label Branding

Internationalization (i18n) — full localization support; create your own language packs and edit any text in the app
7 built-in themes — dark, light, red, blue, green, pink, brown; each user can pick their own; or extend the standard CSS to ship a custom theme
Custom logo & branding — white-label the application for clients
English, Italian, and Japanese language packs included by default; community packs available
Per-tenant theme and branding for SaaS deployments

Clean intuitive email marketing UI

Responsive Web UI

The web UI is responsive across desktop, tablet, and mobile breakpoints. Campaign authoring, delivery monitoring, and subscriber administration work on every form factor.

Laravel Codebase & Extensibility

Acelle is written in clean PHP on the latest Laravel framework. The codebase follows a structured FormRequest → DTO → Service → Controller layering, so extending or customizing any part of the application stays predictable.

Plugin System

New features and integrations install as plugins — no need to fork the core. Upload a plugin package (.zip) through the admin UI, enable it, and the new functionality is live. Plugins can:

Add new sending drivers (custom vendors, internal mail relays, niche providers)
Add new payment gateways
Add new AI engine adapters
Hook into campaign lifecycle, automation triggers, or admin events
Ship custom UI panels and admin pages

Plugins are versioned and can be updated, disabled, or removed through the same admin UI. The included Athena EVS verification engine is itself shipped as a self-contained plugin — a working reference for what a production plugin looks like.

Documentation, Installation & Getting Started

Comprehensive documentation included in the source. Step-by-step installation guides for cPanel, Plesk, and standalone Linux servers. New to email marketing? The Getting Started section walks you through your first campaign — from list import to delivery report — in under 30 minutes.

Frequently Asked Questions

What server do I need to run Acelle Mail?
A Linux VPS with 2GB+ RAM. Acelle runs on DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr, AWS Lightsail, OVH, Linode — typically $5–$10 per month. Shared hosting is not recommended because email sending requires advanced server features. Windows servers are not supported.

Can I bill my own customers and resell Acelle as a SaaS?
Yes — purchase the Extended License ($199). Acelle ships as a complete multi-tenant SaaS platform with customer accounts, plan management, quota throttling, and recurring billing built-in (Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Paddle, Razorpay, Paystack).

How does Acelle compare to other self-hosted email marketing platforms?
Acelle stands out with a complete visual marketing automation designer, built-in IP warmup automation (rare in the self-hosted category), a sustained release cadence over a decade, a full multi-tenant SaaS framework with billing — not just a sending tool — and a native AI plugin layer with engine adapters for Ollama, OpenAI, and Anthropic Claude (a 2026 first for self-hosted email marketing).

What about email deliverability?
Deliverability depends on the sending service you choose, not Acelle itself. Plug in Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, SparkPost, or any reputable provider and you’ll get enterprise-class delivery rates. Acelle’s IP Warmup feature protects new sending IPs automatically; custom tracking domain isolates your sender reputation; SpamAssassin spam-checks campaigns before send.

Is migration from a hosted email marketing service easy?
Yes — export your subscribers as CSV from your current provider, then use Acelle’s smart field-mapping import to bring them in. List fields are auto-detected; double opt-in records are preserved. Most agencies migrate a 50K-contact list in under an hour.

Are updates included? How long?
Lifetime updates are included with both the Regular and Extended licenses. Use the built-in Live Upgrade Manager to upgrade with one click whenever a new version ships (typically weekly to monthly).

How long is support included?
Six months from Envato by default. Extend to 12 months for $24 (discounted from $56) at checkout.

Does Acelle support AI features in 2026?
Yes — Acelle 4.2 (April 2026) supports an AI plugin layer with engine adapters for OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and self-hosted Ollama. The AI features themselves — email page builder, assistant chatbox, subject-line A/B testing, automation suggestions — ship as a first-party plugin (acelle/ai), so you can disable, replace, or extend them through the standard plugin system without touching core. With Ollama configured, AI features run entirely on your own infrastructure.

Can I use Acelle for cold email outreach?
Yes — Acelle has all the cold-email essentials: Spintax for unique-per-recipient content, custom tracking domain, IP warmup automation, multi-server load balancing, per-server throttling, and SpamAssassin spam-checking. Always follow CAN-SPAM and applicable local laws.

Is Acelle Mail GDPR compliant?
Yes — Acelle includes GDPR-compliant subscriber consent tracking, double opt-in, custom unsubscribe and preference centers, data retention controls, and account deletion. Because Acelle is self-hosted, your subscriber data never leaves your server, simplifying compliance significantly.

Do you offer a free trial or demo?
Yes — the LIVE demo is open with no signup required. Test the full admin and customer experience before purchasing.

System Requirements

Linux VPS or dedicated server (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, AlmaLinux — Windows is not supported)
PHP 8.2 or higher
MySQL 5.x or 8.x (MariaDB also supported)
Recommended: 2GB+ RAM, Supervisor, Redis (optional, for high volume)
cPanel, Plesk, or standalone — installation guides included for all three

IMPORTANT: Acelle Mail must be installed on a dedicated server or VPS. A shared hosting environment lacks certain advanced features required for working with email at scale. Linux is required.

Live Demo, Video & Documentation

LIVE Demo — campaign manager + admin view (no signup required)
Demo Video — Acelle Mail in action
Installation Video — install Acelle and create your first campaign
Official website
REST API documentation

Show Cases & Screenshots

Campaign dashboard view by administrator — overview the statistics of all campaigns and mail lists, evaluate the overall success of your email marketing operation:

Acelle admin campaign dashboard

Campaign statistics view — monitor email delivery, list growth, click-to-open ratio, bounce rate, and engagement scoring in real time:

Campaign statistics

Per-recipient tracking log

Setup screen

Campaign builder

Subscriber view

Add-Ons & Companion Products

Pair Acelle Mail with the Acelle Connect WordPress plugin to keep your WordPress users automatically synchronized with your Acelle mailing lists. Capture WooCommerce customers, blog subscribers, and form submissions directly into segmented Acelle lists.

Recent Releases & Active Maintenance

v4.2.0 LTS — April 14, 2026 — IP Warmup automation, AI Builder, AI Assistant, Laravel 12 LTS
v4.1.5-p22 — March 5, 2026 — Laravel 12 upgrade, distributed deployment, Supervisor support, smart caching, AI plugin support
v4.0.26-p87 — November 14, 2025 — Custom listing views, GDPR updates, automation activity tracking
v4.0.26-p68 — May 14, 2025 — Distributed worker processes, Spintax, ZeroBounce, Postal integration
v4.0.25 — July 13, 2025 — Italian language pack, smart import field mapping
v4.0.24 — May 2, 2025 — Plugin mechanism 1.0, PRO builder widgets, one-time login token API
v4.0.21 — March 18, 2025 — SendGrid Web API, Zapier expansion, automatic retry, SpamAssassin
v4.0.20 — January 26, 2024 — Debounce / Localmail / Verifyre verification, open_basedir support

Latest changelog (v4.1.5-p22):

4.1.5-p22 / 2026-03-05
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 * Change: Acelle is now on Laravel 12, the #1 PHP framework
 * Change: PHP 8.2+ support, older versions of PHP might not work
 * Added: More trigger types for automation
 * Added: Official support for distributed deployment
 * Added: Official support for Supervisor: safe & faster delivery
 * Added: Support for remote Redis queues
 * Added: Better integration with local mailers (Postfix, Exim, etc.)
 * Added: Smart caching, improve web loading performance
 * Added: Improved plugin mechanism, easier to plug features in!
 * Added: Improved plugin mechanism, embrace AI plugins!
 * Added: Smart mapping of input file's fields and list fields
 * Added: Additional bulk operations support for list management
 * Added: More API support for administration tasks
 * Added: More comprehensive report for campaign delivery
 * Added: More detailed tracking information of automation
 * Added: More GDPR compliance
 * Fixed: Better payment integration with wallets like PayPal
 * Fixed: Reduced network bandwidth overhead in general
 * Fixed: Encoding issues with Japanese content
 * Fixed: Inconsistent measures in campaign delivery report
 * Fixed: HTML content and email client compatibility issues

Full changelog included in the source package. Older release notes archived in the documentation folder.

Reference & Resources

Official website: www.acellesend.com
LIVE Demo: demo.acellesend.com
REST API: api.acellesend.com
Demo video: YouTube
Installation video: YouTube
Zapier integration: zapier.com/apps/acelle-mail
Acelle Connect WordPress plugin: CodeCanyon

Acelle Mail is a self-hosted email marketing software, newsletter sender, marketing automation platform, drip campaign builder, autoresponder, A/B testing tool, cold email engine, and multi-tenant SaaS framework in a single deployment, built on the latest Laravel. In active development since 2016 with thousands of licenses sold worldwide. Open the live demo to explore before purchase.

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