Email templates
By creating email templates for each of your commonly sent emails, you can speed up sending your emails in Movement.
You can add CSS elements including your default font as well as edit the header or footer code. The template will support Liquid templating language for any personalisation.
To find your templates and create new ones, go to your settings and click on the Email Templates option.
Here you will see all the emails you have previously built. To edit one, click on the hyperlinked name of the template. You can also clone your template if you want to make an iteration of previous one without having to start from scratch.
If you want to create a template from scratch, click add and you will be brought to the same email builder as used when building your campaigns. Name your template and then start building your template:
- Add CSS for formatting and fonts
- Add HMTL for the header and footer (you may be able to use the HMTL from your existing templates in other platforms)
- Add email template blocks as needed: paragraph, heading, image, button, list, spacer, and divider.
Image
For images, you can hyperlink, set sizing (px or percent), change the alignment and add alt text.
Heading
To add a new element, click the plus button and pick one of the options. You can add different sized headings and include merge tags to personalise your template for each recipient. You can set the heading style in the CSS for the template.
Paragraph
When adding text, you can include merge tags and hyperlinks. In templates you may want to use merge tags to set your greeting.
Button
You can add buttons that can be hyperlinked to a website, email, phone number or fail. You can edit the text button. For web addresses, you can include relevant merge tags, such as below where the recipient will recieve a personalised link to order a replacement ballot.
List
You can add new items to the list by clicking add list item. To edit an item, click on the text and a box will appear where you can edit the text and change the font type and size.
Spacer & divider
Additional spacing or divider line between blocks
You can also add a divider to clearly sperate the sections of your email:
Finishing
Once you are happy with your template, click save and then the finish button. You can go back and edit your template at any time.