Prepare and send your email prepare-send
Prepare the send prepare
When you have defined your content, audience, and schedule, you’re ready to prepare your email delivery.
During the delivery preparation, the target population is calculated and the message content generated for each profile included in the target. Once the preparation is finished, the messages are ready to be sent, either immediately or at the scheduled date and time.
The validation rules used during delivery preparation are described in the Campaign v8 (client console) documentation.
The main steps to prepare the send are listed below.
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From the delivery dashboard, click Review and send.
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Click the Prepare button located in the top right corner and confirm.
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The preparation progress is displayed. Depending on the size of the targeted population, this operation may take some time.
You can stop the preparation at any time using the Stop preparation button.
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When the preparation is finished, check the KPIs. If the number of messages to send does not match your expectations, modify your audience and restart the preparation.
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Here are the different KPIs displayed:
- Targeted: the number of recipients targeted.
- To deliver: the number of messages that will be sent.
- To exclude: the number of messages excluded by a typology rule.
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Click the Logs button and check that there is no error. The last log message displays any error messages and the number of errors. Learn more
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If the preparation detects a critical error preventing the delivery from being sent, the preparation status appears as failed in the delivery dashboard.
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If you make any changes to your delivery after the preparation, you must restart the preparation for those changes to be taken into account.
Once the preparation is complete with no error, your message is ready to be sent.
Send the message send
Once the preparation is complete, you can now send your email.
If the message is scheduled, it will be sent at the defined date and time. Learn more
Send immediately send-immediately
To immediately send an email, follow the steps below.
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From the delivery dashboard, click the Send button in the top right corner.
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Confirm this action to immediately send the message to the main target.
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The sending progress is displayed.
Schedule the send schedule-the-send
If you scheduled your email to send it at a later date and time, follow the steps below.
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Before you hit the Review and send button, make sure you defined a schedule for your email. Learn more
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From the delivery dashboard, click the Send as scheduled button button in the top right corner.
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Click Confirm sending. The delivery will be sent on the scheduled date to the main target.
note note NOTE If you disabled the Enable confirmation before sending option, the preparation and sending steps are grouped together under the Prepare and send button. Learn more on scheduling
Pause or stop the sending pause-stop-sending
Whether your delivery is scheduled or not, two actions can be performed at any time during the sending process:
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Click Pause sending to interrupt the sending of the messages. You can resume sending at any time.
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Click Stop sending to immediately interrupt sending. Neither preparation nor sending can be resumed once stopped.
Check the KPIs check-kpis
Once the send is complete, you can check the KPIs displayed:
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Sent: the number of messages delivered. The percentage displayed is based on the total number of messages to deliver.
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Delivered: the number of messages successfully delivered. The percentage displayed is based on the total number of sent messages.
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Opens: the number of opened messages. The percentage displayed is the number of distinct opens compared with the number of delivered messages.
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Clicks: the number of recipients who clicked at least once in the email. The percentage displayed is the number of distinct clicks compared with the number of delivered messages.
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Errors: the number of emails with the error status. The percentage displayed is based on the total number of sent messages.
Learn more about KPIs in this page.
You can also check the logs. Learn more