Understanding the Announcements Menu
The Announcements menu is the place where you create and manage your set of Announcements. Before adding your first Announcement, the Announcements page is blank.
Once you have created at least one Announcement, the page displays a list of your Announcements and provides various options for working with them. The following sections present:
Announcements Page Overview
The portions and main features of the Announcements page are described in the table below the diagram.
Number | Feature/Action | Description |
1 | New announcement button | Click to create a new Announcement. |
2 | Scheduled Deliveries | This tab lists Announcements that are scheduled to be sent in the future. For more information, refer to Viewing Scheduled Deliveries. |
3 | Summary data | This portion of the page shows the Announcement's name, image and delivery status (hasn't been sent, scheduled to be sent, or sent). If the Announcement has been sent, delivery statistics for the most recent delivery are displayed. |
4 | Action buttons |
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5 | Actions menu | Click the icon to open a list of additional options. For more information, refer to Managing Your Announcements (below). |
Managing Your Announcements
Clicking in the row of an Announcement opens a list of options that let you perform various actions on the Announcement.
The options are:
- Edit: Opens the Edit Announcement page, where you can update the content and look of the Announcement. This option appears only for Announcements that have already been sent.
- Send test email/sms: Enables you to test the Announcement by sending it to yourself.
- View online: Allows you to view the Announcement message in a webpage.
- Delete: Removes the Announcement from your set of Announcements.
- Clone: Creates a new Announcement with identical settings of an existing Announcement. This option is useful when you want to have multiple similar Announcements (e.g. for different holidays).
- Announcement Settings: Opens a popup where you can change the name of the Announcement. The name can contain up to 250 characters.
Clicking the links in the Email template section of the popup opens the Business Info settings page, where you can update the logo that appears at the top of your emails and/or update the address that is displayed at the bottom of your emails.
Viewing Scheduled Deliveries
The Scheduled Deliveries tab of the Announcements menu lists all the Announcements that you have scheduled for future delivery. General information, such as scheduled delivery time and the number of targeted recipients, is provided for each Announcement.
Clicking in the row of a scheduled Announcement opens a list of options that let you perform the following actions on the Announcement:
- Change Time: Opens a popup that allows you to change the delivery date and/or time.
- Cancel: Removes the Announcement from the list of scheduled deliveries.
- View online: Allows you to view the Announcement message in a webpage.
- View stats: Opens a page where you can view and work with delivery statistics for the Announcement. (This option is relevant if you have sent the Announcement previously.)
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