Autocron

1. The AutoCron is misleading or I do something wrong. It’s not clear if you need a paid version or the free version. Anyway, it doesn’t work in the free version.

there was a bug in registering the auto cron recently. That should be fixed. We do plan to update that screen. It is confusing and much has changed since then.

2. The newsletter editor is a normal WP editor. Those templates are weak and actually not clear what it means.

yes, but you can insert your posts using our SP icon.

http://docs.sendpress.com/article/27-how-to-insert-posts-into-an-e-mail

our shortcode

http://docs.sendpress.com/article/50-sp-recent-posts

and you can style it quite a bit.

http://docs.sendpress.com/article/58-setting-up-a-newsletter-template

Our Pro version supports custom HTML so you can get pretty wild with your template.