# Start the list. Send the first issue.

> Every PixelGlass site starts with a newsletter. Name it, choose who joins, and send any post to it. Set up by hand; your agent writes the issues.

Every PixelGlass site starts with one newsletter, named after the publication, that new readers join when they sign up. **Rename it, add more, and send any post to it** from the publish page.

## By hand, in the admin

1. In **Settings › Audience**, check that **Let readers sign up and sign in** is on. A new site has it on.
2. Open **Newsletters** on the sidebar. Your site already has one list; open it to rename it, or press **New newsletter**.
3. Give it a name and a description. Turn on **Subscribe newcomers automatically**, so every reader who signs up joins it.
4. On a new list, keep **Subscribe everyone already in your audience** on to add every confirmed reader at once. Press **Save**.
5. Write a post, press **Publish**, and choose **Site and email** to send it to the list.

An admin makes the lists; editors and above send. During the free trial without a card, a post goes to the site alone, and email waits for a plan.

## With your agent

> Turn these notes into the first issue of my newsletter and leave it as a draft.

> Make the first issue for members only, so signing up is the way to read it.

> How many newsletter emails a month does each PixelGlass plan include?

The tools it calls: `create_post`, `update_post_settings`, `list_plans`.

No tool makes a list or sends an email. Your agent writes the issue and sets who can read it; you send it from the publish page.

## Examples

- **A bakery's Friday letter.** A bakery renames its first list to The Friday Loaf and **sends each week's bake by email alone**, never on the site.
- **A club that already has members.** A surf club opens its new list with Subscribe everyone already in your audience on, so the two hundred riders who signed up get the first issue.

## Questions

### How do I start a newsletter on PixelGlass?

Open Newsletters in the PixelGlass admin. Every site starts with one list, named after the publication; rename it or press New newsletter. Then publish a post with Site and email, and it goes to that list.

### Who gets my PixelGlass newsletter?

The readers on the list whose address is confirmed. A reader who signs up joins every list with Subscribe newcomers automatically on, and a post goes only to the readers it is open to.

### Do I need a separate email tool for a newsletter on PixelGlass?

No. The lists, the sends, the unsubscribe links and the numbers are all in PixelGlass. Plans include from 10,000 to 1,000,000 newsletter emails a month.

### Can I send a newsletter during the PixelGlass free trial?

Not during the 14-day trial without a card. A post goes to the site alone until the site has a plan, and then the publish page offers email.

### Can my agent start a newsletter for me?

Your agent writes the issues and sets who can read them, but it cannot make a list or send an email. An admin makes lists under Newsletters, and an editor sends from the publish page.

## See also

- [Send a post as an email](https://pixelglass.co/guides/send-a-post-as-an-email): Publish a post to the site and email, or email it alone. Pick the list, the readers and the design, then send now or later. Your agent drafts it.
- [Add a subscribe form](https://pixelglass.co/guides/add-a-subscribe-form): Put a subscribe form anywhere on your site. Each address confirms with one email before it joins a list. With a theme that has one, or with your agent.
- [Run several newsletters](https://pixelglass.co/guides/run-several-newsletters): Run a weekly letter, a digest and a briefing side by side. Readers choose their lists, and each post goes to the one you pick. By hand, with your agent.
- [Newsletters](https://pixelglass.co/features/newsletters): Send every post as a newsletter: many lists, two email designs, opens and clicks, links you can fix after sending. From $9 a month.
- [Every guide](https://pixelglass.co/guides)
- [Pricing](https://pixelglass.co/pricing): every feature on every plan, 14 days free
- [Create your site](https://pixelglass.co/signup)