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It's all hot sun and sticky clothes up here in the northern hemisphere. We hope you're staying cool, wherever you are!

Speaking of heat, the newest edition of Postmark Express is hot off the presses! If you run an online business, you’ll know losing customers stinks. Especially when it's due to (preventable) payment and billing issues. 

…so what if there was a super-owl whose job is to deliver notifications and make sure that doesn't happen?

About a year ago, we released Postmark Express: Journey to the Inbox. Then we followed up with Ruthy Redemption, a story about a frog and a dog stuck in an email spam filter prison. And we've done it again with Dun Dun Dunning…

Get ready for the long-standing rivalry between Churn, the villainous skunk who likes to mess with online payments, and Dunning, the super-owl whose job is to protect honest folks from Churn’s antics.

We'd love if you checked us out on Product Hunt today.

There are three questions you can ask any email service provider to establish if you’re going to have delivery issues:

• Do they take good care of their shared IPs?
• Do they use separate IPs for transactional and marketing email?
• Will their team proactively help you?

With most providers, the answers will be no, no, and no. And that’s a problem.

If you see recipients marking your emails as spam, it's time to investigate. 🕵️ We look at common reasons why recipients hit that dreaded “mark as spam” and share hands-on tips to help you keep your spam rate low.

Since Postmark joined the team at ActiveCampaign, we’ve been busy developing ways to connect the two tools, and we’re excited to share the first big milestone with you:

Introducing the Postmark App for ActiveCampaign.

With the new Postmark App for ActiveCampaign, you can set up and trigger transactional emails from within ActiveCampaign, making it easier than ever to embed transactional emails into your existing workflows.

If you use Stripe for billing and send emails from Postmark, great news: we've got a new option to make your life a little easier. The Postmark App for Stripe is one of the first options available on Stripe's new app marketplace.

With this installed, you can send emails to your customers from Postmark—without leaving Stripe. See a failed payment? You can follow up with that customer right from within your Stripe account. See how to do that and more!

That’s all for this issue. Thanks for reading and we wish you a fantastic August ahead!

– cb