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Create a Campaign Message with Mail+

Before you can create a campaign/story message with the mail+ integration, ensure you have set up in mail+:

  • Message/Template
  • Automations using these messages

In this article you you will read more about:

Message and automation creation in Mail+

Message Creation

see New Message

Templates migration

Create a new message with the template to be migrated.

  • Get the HTML template from the current ESP and create the template in mail+. There is no automation for this and needs to be created and checked manually.
  • The users can specify the sender, subject when creating a message with the template.
  • Once the message is created, update the status to final. 

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Things to re-check:

  • The template is correctly migrated to mail+
  • All the variables are added as automation fields

Automation Creation

see New Automation

The automation should contain:

  • An external trigger
  • Message to be deployed

Publish the automation before using it in Activate Pro

  • Create the Automation using the message previously created. The automations are listed in the Connect Mail+ integration in Activate Pro. The automation should contain a trigger block and an email block. 

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  • Change the status of the automation to final and publish this automation to start using it. 

Message setup in campaign/story

  • Create a message using the configured Connect integration in a campaign/story.

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  • Choose the trigger (=the message in mail+)
  • Optional: fill out the value mapping, if there are placeholder with additional information are used in the mail+

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The options for the value mapping depend on the used placeholders in the specific template/message in mail+

  • Activate the campaign/story

Product information

There are 2 ways in which product data can be populated in the email

Using the product block in the template

  • Ensure the product list is updated in mail+. This can be done via Connect if there is a google or facebook shopping feed connected. If not, its possible to use the mail+ api to update the product list. MailPlus Interactive API Documentation

Using automation fields

  • you can add the fields as automation fields and update the data with the product info available in Activate Pro.