Marketing Email Designer

The Marketing Email Designer enables the layout of marketing emails and newsletters to be updated with customisable colour, menu items and adverts. Design stunning newsletter and marketing emails and send enmasse to your contacts.

In Acquaint, Marketing emails are any Email Templates with a Type of Property Bulletin, Property Details or Property Development Details. Newsletters are emails containing news items and have a Type of Newsletter.

Using the Designer to Customise Emails

The designer will update all emails of the type specified in the Email Type drop down. In the example below, the designer is customising all Property Bulletin emails.

1. The Marketing Email Designer is accessed via Marketing Tools → Marketing Email Designer

2. Choose an Email Type from the drop-down list

3. Under the General, Menu and Details tabs the colours of parts of the email design can be changed and the change viewed in the Preview panel.

4. The Menu section is where the user clicks to access additional content outside the email.

5. The Body section is where the text from your email template will appear i.e. the written content of your email

6. Detail is the Property Details section for Property emails

7. To add Social Media Icons that link to your social media pages like Facebook and Twitter, add your URLs to the corresponding . Click the Social Media tab. Add the URL to your Social Media page next to each of the respective media. The World icon will become enabled and the icon should appear in the Preview page of the Marketing Email Designer. Use the Icon Style drop-down list to change the style of the icons

8. The Footer is picked up from the settings in File → Configuration → Site/Branch Configuration → Site Details

9. Once all the changes are complete click Save

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Adding Menu Items and Adverts

Menu Items are useful for adding links in emails to specific content outside of the email. The example above has a Menu with Menu Items for Home, Latest News and Offers.

Adverts allow you to insert an image with content. A suite of images is available to choose from. The example below shows an Advert at the bottom of an email.

Email Items and Adverts are accessed either via File → Configuration & Administration → Templates → Marketing Email Items or via the Marketing Tools tab of the ribbon Menu via the Marketing Email Items icon.

Step 1 - Create Items and Adverts

1. Click New

2. In Type select whether it's a Menu Item or Advert

3. In the URL field add the URL which will be the path to the content the email recipient will be taken to when they click on the item

4. For Adverts a Body field will appear allowing text to be added along side the image. Use the Image field to select an image. Use the <> arrows to select from the available images

5. Click Save

Step 2 - Define where the items appear

Email Items and Adverts

This must be defined in the appropriate Email Template

1. Go to Email Templates via Configuration → Templates → Emails

2. Select an existing Template or create a new one

3. In order for Email Items and Adverts options to appear the Email Template Type must be set to one of the following Property Bulletin, Property Details, Property Development Details or Newsletter.

4. For Menu Items click the Menu button and click New. Select the Item. Choose the Order to determine the position in the Menu bar they will appear.

5. For Adverts click the Menu button and click New. Select the Advert. Choose the Order to determine the position in the Menu bar they will appear.

6. Under Email Items click the Menu button (or right click) and click New

7. Select an Email Item and choose the Order in which it will appear. Repeat for any further items.

8. View the email under the Preview tab.

9. Click Save

Step 3 - Adding News Items to Newsletters

Optionally News items can be inserted into Newsletters, these are Email Templates with a Type of Newsletters these are first created in Web Site News and must be uploaded to the web-server using the Web Upload

1. Go to Email Templates via Configuration -> Templates -> Emails

2. Select your Newsletter Email Template.

3. Ensure the Type is set to Newsletter and a Newsletter Articles tab will appear

4. Under News Articles tab click the Menu button (or right click) click New

5. Select from the News items available. If none are available you will need to ensure they have been first created in Web Site News and Web Upload

6. Click Save