Designing an email in Kit

Demo summary
The creator demonstrates the email editor in Kit to recreate a simple music newsletter.
Step-by-step
- Scroll past the credit card form on the billing page
- Click the downgrade link to access the free plan
- Wait for the account approval email from Kit
- Use the drag-and-drop editor to recreate your email layout
- Send the email to view the included advertisement
Watch out for
- You must wait for manual approval (approximately 36 hours) before you can send emails
- The free plan includes a large, mandatory advertisement at the bottom of sent emails
- The free plan has a contact limit of 2,500 subscribers
Highlights
“recreating my emailing kit wasn't hard the editor was solid”
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