Add more detail (What message, what status(es), etc) to the Communication Job Manager.
The Communication Job Manager (Utilities>Communication Job Manager) is very basic currently. When I schedule Communications in the Wizard, they will show up there, but with very little identifying information - meaning if something needs to be corrected, I have to delete all of the outgoing communications in order to reset the one I needed to fix. Recommending putting more identifying information (Client Status/Group, Date/Time Scheduled, Which Message Sent, etc.)
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Mike Comer commented
The more I use Stratus, the more I am impressed at its capability, and this is a perfect example of where it can really capture all of its potential value created: the details should include deliverability of the job and in so doing will do ~95% of what we were using Mailchimp to do. For those familiar with Mailchimp (MailerLite, Constant Contact, etc. I'm not familiar with but figure they work same way), you make a "campaign," which is really just a batch email to an "audience," which is really just a list of clients. In Stratus terms, a Mailchimp campaign is a Communications Job, likely started from the Communications Wizard. Audience for MC can be any number of things: Client Group, Filter, etc. This is nothing new. But so far as I can tell, there's no way in Stratus to check the performance of what amounts to a Mailchimp campaign wholistically. I.e. Mailchimp tells you not just about individual opens and click throughs of bulk emails in like the client record view but sums them in Mailchimps Campaign history to give deliverability stats for a campaign wholistically; the corollary in S+ would be if a Communications Job history could show what Communications Job was sent and some statistics like % opened and % clicked, the two main KPIs Mailchimp tracks for campaigns. I kept a close eye on my Mailchimp open rate and click through rate to see how my clients are responding and guage if I need to do some more sales impressions to get the results I'm looking for. Metrics like this would also enable A/B testing for emails. All of the components are there... just need the pieces pulled together in meaningful way to really be usable. And it's the quality and number of components that always surprises me with S+... and thereby what's possible given such excellent components to work with.