Brownpaper checks each campaign's subject and the text that shows when it is opened against the CAN-SPAM labelling rule, names every fault, and will not approve a campaign to send while any check fails.
Opens in this browser with an invented studio already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed. It sends nothing itself.
The problem
16 CFR 316.4 wants "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: " as the first nineteen characters of the subject, in capitals, and only the brown paper wrapper when the email is opened: the label, that it is an advertisement, how to opt out, your postal address, and a delete line before any way to the material.
Not a reminder. Approve refuses, naming the reason, while the label is wrong in any way, a word from your own list is in the subject, the opening screen is missing the advertisement line, the opt-out, the opt-out address or your postal address, a link comes before the delete line, or the opt-out address lapses inside 30 days. An approved campaign is locked. There is no override.
How it works
Its subject, and the text that shows when it is opened.
Every rule, passing or failing, in plain words.
Named, dated and locked. Mark it sent once your mail service has sent it.
What it will never do
Brownpaper reads the subject and the opening text you paste, nothing more.
Pricing
For one sender.
Every campaign checked.
Monthly, per sender. Your bank statement says Brownpaper Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.
Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.
Questions
No. It checks it and records who approved it. Your mail service sends it.
Mail only to people who gave prior affirmative consent is exempt from the label. Tick it and name the consent list.
No. It is the check and the gate in front of sending.
The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.
The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.
One campaign has its label in the wrong case, and one puts the link before the delete line and leaves out the postal address.