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How to create and set up customized emails?
How to create and set up customized emails?
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Written by Victoria C
Updated over 3 months ago

How to create and set up customized emails?

Instructors are able to send customized emails to clients based on specific transactional scenarios. To create a custom email go to Tools and click on Transactional Emails:

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You will be brought here, click on the Create new email button:

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Now let's create some customized emails! First, you will need to set up the email for your customized email.

Select a trigger. A trigger is an automated email that is sent when the client takes a certain action, engages in a certain behavior pattern, or when certain changes occur:

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Once you have chosen your trigger, make sure to set the "Who should receive this email?" recipient to "Client(s)":

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Fill out the rest of the form, then select a date when the email should become active:

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Click on next to begin creating your new email template:

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Enter a subject name for the email. There are three different cells to choose from select which cell you would like to add to the section of the email body:

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Choose Text to enter a text box into the email body:

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Type in your custom message inside the text box:

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Now add a media to the email body by clicking on the Media icon, this will insert a photo into the body of your email template:

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You can add another section to the right or left side of a section. If you need to delete a section, hover over Cell and you will see an X. Clicking the X will remove the section from the email body:

Before:

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After:

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Next up, you have the option to add a button to your email. This is where you can enter the URL to your website. To add a button, click on the Button icon:

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Hover button to enter the URL to your website:

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When you are ready to preview your template, click on preview:

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If all looks good, click on save to activate your template:

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All of your customized emails will live here. They are sorted by specific triggers and you can go back to make edits to your templates or disable a template by clicking on the three dots and selecting Edit Email to edit a template or Make inactive to disable a template:

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How to utilize variables in custom emails:

Variables are a great way to personalize your custom emails based on certain transactional scenarios. Clicking on a variable copies the code snippet which allows you paste the variable into the email template.

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To apply a first name variable to your email template scroll down and click on User >> First Name to copy the variable:

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Paste the variable into the text box:

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Pro Tip: To paste the variable into the text box, press command + V on your keyboard on a Mac or CTRL + V on your PC keyboard

When you are ready to preview your template, click on preview:

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Click on save to apply the changes to the template:

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Variables Glossary:

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