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Beacon

Contact Intelligence & Marketing. Fully cloud based. Proudly South African. Developed, Built and supported by NBS.

Beacon is the suite's mailer and contact base. Contacts carry company, province, industry and labels; campaigns are assembled in a block editor and previewed exactly as they will send; sends are scheduled and tracked; replies come back to the contact record; and unsubscribes are handled automatically. Staff signatures with rotating banners are designed here too.

Beacon by NBS
Features

What Beacon does.

Contact database with companies, provinces, industries and custom labels; CSV import with column mapping and encoding repair

Block email builder with server-side rendering and true-to-send preview; Poppins and self-hosted web fonts

Scheduled campaigns, per-recipient tracking tokens, open and click tracking, automatic unsubscribes

Inbound reply webhook that marks the contact as replied

Insights page showing the live shape of the contact base

Outlook discovery: find the people you actually correspond with and review them before import

Staff email signatures from Microsoft 365, with banner rotation by recipient domain

Sends through Amazon SES in Cape Town; per-person accounts with super-admin, admin and viewer roles

Benefits

Why teams choose Beacon.

✓ Benefit

Know your audience

Industry and province on every contact turn a mailing list into a market picture.

✓ Benefit

Deliverability

A dedicated, reputable sending path with unsubscribe handling built in.

✓ Benefit

Consistent brand

Signatures and campaign templates enforce one look across the company.

Security & compliance

Built to be trusted with your data.

Every NBS application signs in through Orbit: one account, hashed credentials, roles per person and per organisation, and a shared session across the suite. Data is hosted in ISO 27001-certified data centres over encrypted connections, backed up, and covered by the POPIA operator addendum in our subscription agreement. Specific to Beacon:

Per-person accounts with super-admin, admin and viewer roles; Orbit single sign-in

Unsubscribes honoured automatically; suppression applied before every send

Sends through Amazon SES in the Cape Town region with SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment

Per-recipient tokens for tracking and replies; no shared links

Contact data stays in your tenant and is never sold or pooled

Fully cloud based

Nothing to install. Nothing to maintain.

Beacon is hosted by NBS and delivered as a subscription. Updates, backups, monitoring and support are part of the service, and it works from any modern browser or the NBS app where one is provided.

  • Browser-based builder with server-side rendering, so what you preview is what lands
  • Scheduled sends run on the server whether or not your laptop is open
  • Inbound replies arrive by webhook and update the contact instantly
Ideal for
Marketing Teams Event Comms Customer Newsletters Sales Outreach
Featured hardware

No hardware required.

Beacon is browser-only and needs no hardware. See the NBS hardware range for the rest of the suite.

Subscription models

Beacon on subscription.

Beacon is sold as a hosted subscription. Hosting, backups, updates and support are part of every plan, hardware can be added on rental with replacement cover, and adding another NBS application later only needs an updated schedule rather than a new agreement.

Plans are matched to the size of your operation, so we put the numbers together after a short scoping call. Contact us for more information.

See Beacon on your own data. Book a demo »

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