How to Build an Email for a Zuddl Event
You can choose a tool to overhaul the email completely and custom-design it according to your requirements. To use the email builder option:
- Click on Edit email. This opens the editor page.
You can use widgets from the left navigation option, such as Title, Image, Buttons, and more, to customize the design of the email entirely.
- Once you create the email, click the Save button. Alternatively, you can click Save and exit to save it for a one-time use or click Save as a template to keep it as a template that can be reused later.
Ensure you do not remove the Unsubscribe special link “Click here to unsubscribe. from the template”
This resetting is done to prevent any accidental misfires during trial runs. Conversely, changing the event date or time in the email does not change the actual event date or timing.
How to customize email
There are primarily two types of variables you can work with when customizing your email:
- Merge tags
- Special links
How to use Merge Tags
Merge tags are dynamic variables that you can easily insert in your emails for which Zuddl fetches the value from the backend. For example, you can add the ‘User name’ merge tag to your email template, and Zuddl will automatically fetch the names of all the attendees to whom this email is sent. So each attendee would receive personalized emails.
To use merge tags:
- Select any text variable enclosed in the blue dotted box.
Click on the Merge tags option on the rich-text toolbar.
Note: A blue dotted box represents a merge tag in a template.Select the desired merge tag from the list.
This will add the merge tags at your cursor position.
Note: The merge tags, “QR code image” and “Event logo,” shouldn’t be used with text as they would render the image URL rather than the image. These are added to the list just as a reference to their codes to be used in the image component.
You can also add more merge tags by following the same steps. However, ensure that your cursor is in the right place.
The different types of merge tags are shown below:
| Merge tags | Description | Audience |
| User name | The full name of the attendee/speaker | All users |
| First name | The first name of the user | All users |
| Last name | The last name of the user | All users |
| Event name | The name of the event | All users |
| Event start date | The set start date of the event | All users |
| Event start time | The set start time of the event | All users |
| Event start date time | Even start date and time (shown together) | All users |
| Event end date time | Even end date and time (shown together) | All users |
| Timezone | The event timezone | All users |
| Timezone short | The event timezone in short form | All users |
| QR code | QR code for check-in | Attendee & Speaker |
| QR code Image | QR code image | Attendee & Speaker |
| Event logo | Event logo (if added) | All users |
| Event type | Type of event: Virtual, In-person, or Hybrid | All users |
| Ticket name | Name of the ticket for the attendee | Attendees |
| Ticket amount | Total ticket amount | Attendees |
| Transaction ID | Transaction ID of the purchase | Attendees |
How to use Special Links?
Special links are pre-defined links that can be easily added to your email template. The steps to add a special link to your email template are the same as adding a merge tag.
The types of special links are shown in the table below:
| Special link | Description | Used for |
| Go to event | Use this to add an event hyperlink to your email. | All users |
| Calendar invite link | Use this to add to calendar links for Apple, Outlook, Google, and Yahoo email. When a user clicks on any calendar invite link, it opens the Create Event page in the respective calendar. | All users |
| Edit registration details | Allows attendees or purchasers to edit registration details. Used mainly for registration confirmation email | Attendees |
| Modify registration details | Allows purchasers to edit registration details. Used mainly for registration confirmation email | Attendees |
| Unsubscribe email link | Mandatory link. An option for users to unsubscribe from Zuddl emails. | All users |