Creating an Email Template / Email Tags
When starting a new email you have the option of either
- Creating a new email with our default template
- Or "repeat/copy" from a previously sent email, using it as your template for each new bulk email
You cannot modify the default template, however copying an existing newsletter works well and often saves much re-entry.
Personalising your Templates
You can include the following fields in your email content
With the bulk emailer unsubscribe links will be taken care of for you in the footer of your email.
| BULK EMAILER | EMAIL AUTO RESPONDERS | |
| Their first name (first name retrieved from the full NAME member record) | [FIRSTNAME] | |
| Their name (complete name retreived from the NAME member record) | [NAME] | [mbr_name] |
| Their expiry date if any exists | [EXPIRY] | |
| Their password | [PASSWORD] | [PASSWORD] |
| Members reference number if any exists | [REFERENCE] | |
| A special link that allows customers to confirm their email address validity (double optin) | [CONFIRMLINK] | [CONFIRMLINK] |
| Autologin URL | [autoLoginURL] or [autoLoginLink] |
[autoLoginURL] or [autoLoginLink] |
| Unsubscribe URL | [unsubscribeURL] or [unsubscribeLink] | |
| Member Points Balance - only if points > 0 | [mbr_points_balance] or [points_summary] |
You can also use additional fields inside square tags []
| mbr_name | mbr_addr | mbr_city | mbr_country | mbr_fax |
| mbr_company | MBR_EXPIRY | mbr_email | mbr_postcode | mbr_suburb |
| mbr_mobile | mbr_phone |
And for the sake of completeness and brevity, you can also use any of these, in both the subject and email body. And tags are case insensitive.
| mbr_id | mbr_level | mbr_name | mbr_password | mbr_reference |
| mbr_logins | mbr_last_login | mbr_expiry | mbr_created | mbr_commission |
| mbr_discount | mbr_aff_hits | digestnextemaildate | digestregularity | mbr_notes |
| mbr_email_format | mbr_lang | mbr_email_accounts | mbr_loginfails | mbr_referredby |
| mbr_pricegrp | mbr_ipaddr | mbr_title | mbr_referred | mbr_url |
| mbr_birthdate | mbr_gender | mbr_last_activity | mbr_jobtitle | mbr_grp |
| mbr_email_fail_reason | mbr_email_fail_time | mbr_terms_agreed | mbr_debtcollect | mbr_balance |
| mbr_balance30days | mbr_balance60days | mbr_balance90days | subject |
Additional Tags (BULK EMAILER only)
| firstname | name | reference | expiry | |
| mbr_points_balance | points_summary |
Backgrounds ( BULK EMAILER)
If you want to use background images and more complex items, then more technical users may refer to the email stylesheet in the custom templates design area.
More From This Section
Our emailer system enables you to send emails to your mailing list. Your mailing list is managed on our server, allowing people to subscribe or unsubscribe.
Login to your CMS and click the blue BULK EMAILER icon found one the side menu of the CMS.
How our system works is that you can either creating a new email with our default template or "repeat/copy" from a previously sent email, using it as your template
In order to send your newsletter to your mailing list, follow this procedure.
Please test your emails on multiple email clients, to ensure your emails look good on all devices, on all apps, in all web mail clients etc. Learn how to format your emails for the most widespread readability and professional layout.
You can pause and restart a mailout that is in progress. Restarting the mailout will not resend emails to those who have received them.
What can and can't be done with our emailer, technically speaking
What are the rules for collecting email addresses. Do I need to provide an opt-in or opt-out address? What about anti-spam laws?
Can my pre-existing mailing list integrate with the content management system's members database?
Our system automatically detects most failed senders, however, every now and again it also sees perfectly valid email addresses as a fail, learn more..
Learn how to make those annoying popup subscribe boxes
Unsubscribe links and other unsubscribe considerations
There a couple of product snippets available for your bulk emails where you can quickly add product information and links to a product.
Learn about the best image size to include in your bulk emails.
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