Updated: 16th September 2024 for Release 201

Mailing templates are general templates that are used for all mail traffic to your visitors.

The information and settings of each template can be managed in the dashboard module "Templates" (Dashboard > Mailings > Templates).

Each template contains information about the sender, a header, a footer, and of course room for the content displayed (different "Parts").In the "Mailing templates" module you can manage all the templates used in the Peppered platform. This includes all newsletter variants and also the automated mailing templates (Pre- and after service mails).

There are templates that are designed with you when the website was delivered.

CultureSuite creates the style sheet per template. This consists of overall layout, colors for the background and parts, texts, links and buttons. For most templates we can copy the colors from the website. However, it is also possible to choose a different color palette for certain newsletters. The logo in the header, the sender and the footer can also differ per newsletter template. For design changes, please contact the service portal to know what the possibilities are.

Once the new template with a new design has been prepared by CultureSuite, you can configure the templates yourself as you wish. Select the template that you want to configure.

You can manage your sender and reply information.

(Please leave the bounce address empty in order to use the general Peppered bounce system)

The preamble is a text area that will be shown on top of your mail template. You can leave this empty or provide text (like a link to the online version). To link to the online version, go to the code view of the text editor and add this code:

<p>Bestel snel uw kaarten | <a href="[!view!]">Bekijk online</a></p>. You can change the texts, but leave the [!view!] bit for the link to work.

Place any address or other important contact info in the footer.

When the box "Display preferences link" is checked, we will show the standard "preferences", "unsubscribe" and "view online" links. You should always use this setting when the opt-in subscriptions are hosted on Peppered. You can also switch this off and use your own external unsubscribe url by placing it in the footer textbox.

The shown parts are available to you when creating a mailing. These parts are all styled differently and can be reused in other mail templates. You can also duplicate a part to use it twice in the same mailing. For that you need to go to the "Parts" module to duplicate the part. More on that later.

The media gallery is used for the header logo. Different templates can use different logo's.

The parts module contains all the parts that are used in all templates. Each part has it's own styling as seen in the "code" column. That code is managed in Control panel > manual mailings, where the entire stylesheet is available (please do not edit this if you are not sure what you are doing, as it can easily break).

Parts can be dragged & dropped to change the default order in which they appear when you create a new mailing.

You can duplicate parts by adding a new part, giving it a distinctive name, and copy all settings of the part you want to duplicate. Then go back to your template module, open a template and add the duplicated part to your set of parts within the template.

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