To get started head to Emails > Create email, here you can either find the template you'd like to use or start from scratch.
If you're starting from a template, simply hover over the template of your choice & click "create"
How to customise your email
Email aesthetic and branding is a really important part of your business and creating your own emails couldn't be easier thanks to our email builder.
The email builder is a simple drag and drop system, meaning you can select an option from the content panel and drag it straight into your email canvas to begin building your email.
This builder allows you to view your email in both desktop and mobile formats whilst you're building.
How to navigate the email builder:
Content Panel:
To the right of the email builder, you can find the addable options that you are able to drag and drop into your email canvas and begin to build up the content of your email.
Blocks:
Blocks can be used to break up your email and to add different design elements to suit the content you are sending out. By adding blocks to your email, it separates the content from one another into rows, this allows you to drag and drop different layouts alongside each other.
Body:
The body option allows you to change the formatting of the entire email, rather than individual elements. This is a great way to make sure your background, font, and colours are consistent across your whole email.
Images:
If you’re looking for images to add to your email, in this tab you can search through royalty free images to include in your broadcasts.
Uploads:
This is where all the content you upload will be stored. If you have logos or branded content, you can find these here and use them throughout your emails.
Addable content explained:
Columns: Columns allow you to divide up blocks and split up your content.
Heading: A heading is similar to a title, standing out boldly at the beginning of text to introduce what the text is about.
Text: This inserts a text block into your email, you can then format the text to suit your brand.
Image: This is where you can upload any images to your email, they can be in GIF, JPEG or PNG format and they must be smaller than 2mb.
Button: Add interactive buttons into your email, allowing the email recipient to be taken to whichever URL you would like.
Divider: Dividers create visible break ups of the email page.
HTML: HTML allows you to add any pre-made emails or email templates that have already been created using HTML language.
Menu: Menu allows you to add an interactive listed menu for the email recipient to click, this is an alternative to adding buttons to your email as the menu option is more condensed and ordered
How to preview your email:
If you would like to see how your email will look to the email recipient when viewing on a desktop or mobile, you can do this by pressing the eye on the black tool bar on the bottom left of the email building canvas.
Desktop / Mobile view:
To switch between the preview of mobile and desktop - above your created email, the two buttons that display Desktop | Mobile, are clickable.
By selecting desktop, this will show the preview of the emails from a desktop, by selecting mobile, you will be able to preview the email for mobile viewers.
You can choose to hide and display blocks within the different views, this can be useful if you want to display a more compressed version of your email when it is displayed on mobile.
You also have the option to remove stacking in your email if you want any of your blocks to appear side by side instead of on top of each other.
How to save your email:
Your email is automatically saved during the building process - even after a few seconds of inactivity - as long as Autosave is turned on.
All new emails are given a default name so they can be saved right away, but you can rename them at any point during the build.
If you click Create New and then leave the page, a blank email will still be saved to your email list.
To save a copy of your email, click the three dots next to the Save button and select Duplicate. This allows you to keep the original as a reusable template.
On the main Emails page, you can see when each email was created and when it was last updated.
How to move your email between locations:
If you've created an email under the Head Office and want to move it to a different location, follow these steps:
Go to Emails > Saved Emails.
Find the email you want to move, click the three dots on the right side of that email and click Change Location.
Select the new location you want to move the email to.
Click Save.
Where to find an Email ID:
If you need to locate the Email ID:
Go to Emails > Saved Emails.
Click the three dots on the right side of the email.
Select Edit.
In the URL of the page that opens, the Email ID is the long number at the end.
