Thank you for your reply @jvstratum ... DUH !!, I should have clarified... I have successfully sent out a few emails to my subscription list, new subscribers do get confirmation emails, as admin I get notifications of unsubscribe, subscribe and confirmations. From all appearances the program is working. My interpretation of the Acy documentation states that by creating Welcome and Unsubscribe emails assigned to a list ... they should be sent to new subscribers or those unsubscribing. I'm assuming this means automatically sent out upon either event. When creating these two emails there is no notification that the "paid" version is required.
I just can't figure out how to enable the auto sending of these two emails upon the event occurrence.