Overview

This section covers various email tasks, including the integrations, and inbox previews. No matter the type of customer emails, all businesses have the same goal to get to the correct recipient's inbox. By setting up your email correctly, you ensure successful email deliverability.

Email Integrations

Before you can create email campaigns, you must integrate an email service provider with CleverTap.

CleverTap supports integrations with popular email service providers. Select your email service provider from the following list:

• Mandrill
• Amazon Simple Email Service
• Postmark
• SendGrid
• Gmail/Google Apps

For all other service providers, use Generic SMTP.

Setup Provider

Once you have integrated an email service provider with CleverTap, you can set up your email service provider.

To add a provider, perform the following steps:

1. From the dashboard, navigate to Settings > Engage > Channels > Email.
2. Click + Provider to add a provider.

3. Add the email provider's information.
4. Click Save.
5. Click Send Test Email to check if the provider has been set up correctly and can send emails.

Provider Operations

This section describes actions for the available email service providers.

Archive Service Providers

You can archive any of the current email service providers from the email settings. Archiving the email service provider stops any active Campaigns or Journeys for this provider. The archived provider will not be available for use in the future. However, it will still retain the provider stats.

Follow the steps to archive an email service provider:

1. From the CleverTap dashboard, navigate to Settings > Channels > Email > Providers tab.
2. Click the ellipsis next to the provider.
3. Select Archive from the list.

Delete Service Providers

You can delete any of the current email service providers from the email settings. Deleting the email service provider will remove all existing data from our system and stop any active Campaigns or Journeys. The deleted provider will not be available for use in the future, as well as the corresponding provider stats won't be retained.

Follow the steps to delete an email service provider:

1. From the CleverTap dashboard, navigate to Settings > Channels > Email > Providers tab.
2. Click the ellipsis next to the provider.
3. Select Delete from the list.

Edit Settings

Edit the email settings to change Provider credentials.

Follow the steps to edit provider settings:

1. From the CleverTap dashboard, navigate to Settings > Channels > Email > Providers tab.
2. Click the ellipsis next to the provider.
3. Select Edit settings from the list. The Provider credentials window displays.
4. Change the required information.
5. Click Send Test Email to check that the provider is working correctly.
6. Click Save.

Mark as Default

Set a service provider as default so that the same provider is used for delivering your emails.

1. Follow the steps to set a default email service provider:
2. From the CleverTap dashboard, navigate to Settings > Channels > Email > Providers tab.
3. Click the ellipsis next to the provider.
4. Select Mark as Default from the list.

Inbox Previews

Before you can use inbox previews, you must enable them. Inbox previews with code analysis let you view an analysis of your HTML code. It also provides the capability to view previews across devices and inboxes before you send out a campaign.

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Account Specifications

Email previews are available only if you have opted for the email add-on from CleverTap.

Enable or Disable Inbox Previews

To enable or disable the inbox preview, perform the following steps:

1. From the dashboard, navigate to Settings > Engage > Channels > Email.
2. Select the Previews tab.
3. Select a client from the list.
4. Click on the ellipsis and click Enable or Disable.

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Multi-select

You can also select multiple clients, then enable or disable previews by clicking Enable in inbox previews or Disable in inbox previews.

The Previews tab lists the available email inboxes. For example, a mobile device that runs Gmail on Android 8 or a computer that runs Apple Mail 10 on an OS X 10.10 operating system.

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Account Specifications

Email previews are available only if you have opted for the email add-on from CleverTap.
This feature is not available for trial accounts.

Advanced Setup

AppsFlyer OneLink

Deep linking gives your app users the most seamless experience possible by guiding them securely and contextually to in-app information.

CleverTap automatically wraps all links in the email body to track clicks. When a user clicks on any of the links in the email, this may lead to several redirects. Turning off click tracking for deep links is one option for marketers who wish to send users straight to the content.

The other option is to leverage the AppsFlyer OneLink with branded links. Doing so can provide your app users with the greatest experience possible as it directs them to a specific landing page, the app store, or in-app content. All this while, CleverTap tracks the click and assists in boosting conversion rates.

Set Up AppsFlyer OneLink(s)

The following are the steps to enable this feature:

1. Set Up OneLink(s) in AppsFlyer

To use the AppsFlyer OneLink feature on the CleverTap dashboard, you must first set up a Branded OneLink on your AppsFlyer account. To set up branded OneLink in AppsFlyer, refer to these steps.

2. Set Up OneLink(s) in CleverTap Dashboard

To set up OneLink on the CleverTap dashboard:

a. Navigate to Settings > Channel > Email > Advanced Setup on the dashboard and click AppsFlyer OneLink dropdown.

b. Enter your AppsFlyer OneLink domain or sub-domain and click Add.

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Adding a Domain

You can add a maximum of 20 valid domains or sub-domains.

c. Click Save to save the domain.

The message AppsFlyer domain deeplink successfully saved displays at the top.

Disable Tracking via AppsFlyer OneLink

If you want to avoid click tracking via AppsFlyer OneLink, add the following tag for all the required links in your email:

<a data-track="off" href="donotoverrride"> Your link </a>

AppsFlyer OneLink does not apply to links with this tag.

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Note

Turn off click tracking from your email service provider's dashboard for one link redirection to function as intended. CleverTap will receive the click data directly from AppsFlyer.

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Invalid AppsFlyer Branded OneLink

AppsFlyer does not send the click data for invalid OneLink URLs configured in an Email campaign to CleverTap.

Font Manager

This feature enables you to add and manage custom fonts and use those fonts in your email campaigns. This simplifies font management across Drag & Drop and Rich Media editors.

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Private Beta

Currently, this feature is released in Private Beta. If you want to access this feature, contact your Customer Success Manager.

Add Custom Font

You can add custom fonts by navigating to Settings > _Channel > Email > Advanced Setup from the CleverTap dashboard. You can add up to 100 custom fonts.

The following are the steps to add a custom font:

1. From the Advanced Setup page, click Font Manager.

2. Click + Custom Font. The Add Font popup opens.

3. Enter the following details:

*The fields marked with asterisk sign are mandatory.

3. Click Add to add the custom font.

Sample CSS code:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Dancing Script';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/dancingscript/v25/If2RXTr6YS-zF4S-kcSWSVi_szLgiuEHiC4W.woff2) format('woff2');
  unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+0304, U+0308, U+0329, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;
}

Set Up Default Font

You can also set up the system and custom fonts as the default font for your email campaigns. Select the font from the Default font dropdown to set up the default font for your email campaigns.

The default font cannot be deleted. In case you still want to delete it, change the default font and then delete the required font.

Delete Custom Font

You can delete one or multiple custom fonts to manage your custom font library. To delete a custom font

1. Select one or multiple custom fonts you want to delete.
2. Click the icon and select Delete. The Delete font? popup opens, highlighting potential impacts on drafts and saved templates and prompting you to confirm your action.
3. Select Delete to successfully delete the custom font(s). A confirmation message is displayed.
   Upon deleting the custom font, it is unavailable for use in both the Drag & Drop and Rich Media_ editors.

Edit Custom Font

You can edit your custom font and update the font details.

1. Select the custom fonts you want to edit.
2. Click the icon and select Edit. The Edit Font popup opens.
3. You can update the required fields related to the custom font and click Save to save the changes.

The updated custom font is now available for both the Drag & Drop and _Rich Media editors. When making changes to the custom font, an email alert is sent to the user updating the custom font and also to the account admin.

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Delete or Edit Custom Font

Editing or deleting custom fonts do not impact running, scheduled, and draft engagements. The modifications take effect for the campaigns created subsequent to your changes.