What Recipients Can Do
On the preference center, a recipient can:- Unsubscribe from everything — opt out of all emails from your organization.
- Unsubscribe from specific categories — opt out of just the email categories they don’t want, while continuing to receive the rest.
- Resubscribe to a category — turn a category back on that they previously opted out of.
- Resubscribe to everything — if they previously unsubscribed from all emails, they can opt back in themselves.
- Tell you why they left — when someone unsubscribes from all emails, an optional “Mind telling us why? (optional)” prompt offers the reasons your organization set up (plus Other), and the confirmation screen offers a comment box afterwards. Both are optional and never block the unsubscribe. You can see what people picked and wrote — see Unsubscribe Page.
Categories marked as hidden from the preferences page don’t appear here — see
Email Categories for how to control which
categories recipients can manage.
Unsubscribe Links vs. the Preference Center
Recipients have three ways to opt out, and they behave differently:The built-in unsubscribe button in Gmail and Apple Mail uses the one-click
unsubscribe standard, which is always a full opt-out. If a recipient tells you
they “unsubscribed from everything by accident,” this is usually how it
happened — they can resubscribe from the preference center, or you can
resubscribe them from their person page.
Related
- Managing Email Preferences and Unsubscribes — how to view and change someone’s status from the People section
- Understanding Subscription Statuses — what each status means
- Customizing Your Unsubscribe Page — branding the pages recipients see