New in Automator 6.0: MemberMouse, Stripe & Email Attachments

The entire Uncanny Owl team is thrilled to announce the release of Uncanny Automator 6.0! This huge release is packed with exciting features, new integrations, and powerful upgrades that will make automations even easier and unlock incredible new workflow possibilities. Whether you’re a veteran Automator user or just getting started with WordPress automation, these updates are designed to boost your efficiency, make you more money, and create a better experience for your users.

New integration: Stripe

You asked, we listened. Our full integration with Stripe is here, allowing you to automate payment and customer-related activity easily, and without having to go through an ecommerce plugin. If you run an ecommerce site, a subscription service, or even a membership platform, these new triggers and actions will help you streamline your operations. Here’s what’s new:

• New trigger: A charge fails
• New trigger: A charge is refunded
• New trigger: A customer is created
• New trigger: A payment is completed
• New trigger: A subscription is cancelled
• New action: Create a customer
• New action: Create a payment link (yes, that you can then email to a customer!)
• New action: Delete a customer

These new additions are incredibly powerful. As an example of what you can do with the new additions, perhaps when a subscription is cancelled then an Automator recipe could:

• Send the user a personalized email offering a discount to stay active.
• Trigger a survey by email asking for feedback on why they cancelled.
• Notify a sales team in Slack so they can follow up.

Or if there’s a failed payment, an Automator recipe could:

• Notify the customer about the issue via SMS, including a link to retry payment.
• Log the failed payment in Google Sheets.
• Revoke the user’s access to courses and membership products.

New integration: MemberMouse

The other new integration in the free release of Uncanny Automator, MemberMouse is a powerful membership plugin for WordPress. Whether you’re managing new member signups, subscription renewals, or account updates, the new integration ensures that membership workflows will run smoothly.

Here are the new MemberMouse triggers in the Automator 6.0 release:

• A bundle is added to a member’s account
• A member’s account is deleted
• A member’s account data is updated
• A new member is created
• A refund is issued
• A renewal payment is received
• An order is submitted

And there’s 1 new action:

• Remove a bundle from the member’s account

So what can you do with these new features? Perhaps when a new member is created, they receive on onboarding email, they’re added to a newsletter list in a CRM, and they’re added to an upcoming Zoom webinar. Or maybe when a renewal payment is received, they’re awarded “points” that can be redeemed for course enrollment.

Attach files to emails

Another important new feature in Uncanny Automator 6.0 is the ability to attach files from the Media Library to your outgoing emails. This is what it looks like in email actions:

Simply click the Select file button, choose a file, and it will be added to emails as your Automator recipe sends them.

Cancel and run scheduled actions

Need more control over your queued actions? When you visit recipe log details in the 6.0 release, you’ll see “Cancel” and “Run now” buttons for your scheduled actions. Use the former to stop an action from running, and the latter to fire your actions right away instead of waiting until they’re supposed to run.

Other 6.0 improvements

Beyond the big new features and integrations, today’s Uncanny Automator release includes lots of smaller feature additions that will improve your recipe development. On the token side, all actions now offer a “Completion status” token that can be used in later actions (so if an action failed, how the next action in a recipe runs could be conditional on that status) and MemberPress gains some new transaction detail tokens.

Scheduling actions can now be done in 1-minute increments, UserFeedback gains support for multiple question/answer tokens, the Slack action for sending direct messages gains more token support, and Brevo adds support for contact attribute fields.

For a complete list of changes in Uncanny Automator 6.0, make sure to check out the changelog.

Ryan Moore Director

Ryan Moore (MA, PMP, BCom) is the Cofounder and Director of Uncanny Owl, creators of Uncanny Automator and a suite of popular add-ons for LearnDash. Since 2013, Ryan has helped thousands of companies add elearning and automation capabilities to their WordPress websites.

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