Various types of events that are recorded by Buttondown, both in terms of exogenous systems like Stripe and Memberful, and endogenous ones like email opens and clicks. (In general, if anything important ever happens that could be relevant to your newsletter, we have an event type for it!)
These event types power lots of things within Buttondown. They're used to trigger automations, webhooks, and analytics.
(Note that Buttondown also has a different thing we call "events"; those are EmailEvents and are used
for tracking aggregate details about an email. Alas, we shouldn't have used the term "event" for two different
things, but it's too late to go back now!)
In general, our event namespacing tries to hew to the following pattern:
Whenever an advertising slot in your newsletter is purchased.
Whenever an automation is manually invoked (e.g. by a webhook or API call).
Whenever a new day starts. This event is fired at midnight UTC.
Whenever a new month starts. This event is fired at midnight UTC on the first day of each month.
Whenever a new week starts. This event is fired at midnight UTC on Monday.
Whenever a new year starts. This event is fired at midnight UTC on January 1st.
Whenever a new email is created and begins delivery. Note that event happens immediately before the emails themselves are sent.
Whenever an email has been deleted.
Whenever an email has finished its delivery. Note that event happens immediately after all emails have been sent, but some email events may not have finished processing.
Whenever an email's status has changed (e.g. from 'draft' to 'sent'.) The metadata field will contain the previous and new statii in 'old_value' and 'new_value' respectively.
Whenever an email's content or metadata has been updated.
Whenever an export is completed.
Whenever an export is created.
Whenever an export fails.
Whenever a new item is created in an RSS feed.
Represents an incoming request that was blocked by the firewall.
Whenever a member changes their email address in Memberful.
Whenever a new subscription is created in Memberful.
Whenever a subscription is deleted in Memberful.
Whenever your newsletter is mentioned elsewhere.
Whenever a note is created.
Whenever a note is deleted.
Whenever a member changes their email address in Patreon.
Whenever a new membership is created in Patreon.
Whenever a membership is deleted in Patreon.
Whenever a new customer is created in Shopify.
Whenever a customer changes their email address in Shopify.
Whenever your newsletter is mentioned on another website such as Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky, etc.
Whenever a Stripe checkout session is completed successfully.
Whenever a customer changes their email address in Stripe.
Whenever a subscription is activated in Stripe.
Whenever a subscription is churning in Stripe.
Whenever a subscription is deactivated in Stripe.
Whenever a subscriber's email is bounced.
When a subscriber's email address has been changed.
When a subscriber has unenrolled from your newsletter's paid offering.
When a subscriber has clicked a link in one of your emails.
When a subscriber has commented on one of your emails.
Whenever a subscriber has complained about one of your emails.
When a subscriber has confirmed that they are enrolled in your newsletter. (For newsletters without double opt-in, this event is created immediately after subscriber.created.)
Whenever a new subscriber is created.
When a subscriber has been deleted from your newsletter.
Whenever a subscriber's email is successfully delivered.
When a subscriber has opened one of your emails.
When a subscriber has enrolled in your newsletter's paid offering.
When a subscriber has paused their subscription.
When a subscriber has referred someone to your newsletter.
When a subscriber's referral has converted to a paid subscription.
Whenever a subscriber (or their email provider) has rejected an email from your newsletter. Buttondown takes rejections seriously, and will likely block the subscriber's email address from future emails and/or mark them as undeliverable.
Whenever a subscriber has replied to one of your emails.
When a subscriber has responded to a survey in your newsletter.
When a subscriber has resumed their subscription after pausing it.
When a subscriber's tags have been modified.
When the trial has ended for a subscriber.
When the trial has started for a subscriber. (For newsletters with automatic free trials, this will be created immediately after subscriber.confirmed.)
When a subscriber's type has been changed.
When a subscriber has manually unsubscribed from your newsletter.
When a subscriber's notes or metadata has changed.
When a subscriber has viewed your checkout page.
Whenever a survey's responses have been cleared.
Whenever a new survey is created.
Whenever a survey has been deleted.
Whenever a survey's content or metadata has been updated.
Whenever a new form is created.
Whenever a form has been deleted.
Whenever a form's content or metadata has been updated.