Introduction

The Email Autoresponder may be considered either an extension of the normal marketing campaigns or a replacement. It ties into the normal marketing campaigns by using the Email Lists described earlier. However, an Autoresponder differs from a simple Marketing Campaign with its ability to have multiple emails programmatically delivered to a customer by providing the following feature list.


The most common question we receive is how to inject variables or code or merge fields into email templates.

The email templates and logic steps use the following objects:

Auto Responder Objects

The template code is Apache Velocity: http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/user-guide.html

Features




Quick List

The Autoresponder is explained in detail in the following pages, but here is a quick list to reference when finished. It is a list of steps that should be completed in order to set up a campaign.

  1. Configure a mail server
  2. Create your email templates
  3. Create a campaign
    1. Supply general settings
    2. Suspend it until ready to go
    3. Add campaign steps
  4. Manually add recipients (if any)
  5. Mark the campaign as active
  6. Monitor the campaign
    1. Check your email for Merchant Events (Problems)
    2. Check the daily statistics and performance page
  7. Adjust your campaign as needed

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Related Documents

Autoresponder Tutorials