The email designer editor is a powerful and easy-to-use content creation module that lets customers create beautiful transactional email templates with a simple drag-and-drop interface. Operators can choose from various templates, layouts, and content blocks to build their templates that suit their business needs. They can also customize and design your content with fonts, colors, images, filters, frames, stickers, smart merge tags, and more.

A new document model type called “Designer Editor” has been introduced. This model allows customers to create and edit documents using the new drag-and-drop template designer editor. 

You will find this new feature upon the creation of the new email template for transactional email under Document types. Once you create a new model for supported document type you will be able to create a new "document model" by selecting the "Designer editor". See below.

What document types are supported?

We currently support only the subset of the document types, the remaining ones will be delivered in the following releases. 

Each document type has its own supported merge tags that allow operators to design personalized, dynamic email templates (see the example below). 

What are merge tags?

Merge tags are personalized variable pieces of information that is being applied to the email template dynamically respecting the data associated with (for example) an event name or individual receiving this email (e.g.: "Dear Mr Martin" - where "Mr" is "salutation" merge tag and "Martin" is "Contact first name" merge tag. Find more examples in the expansion section below per document type. 

Supported document types with merge tags available 

Each document type (default templates) supports 6 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Catalan) and has its own merge tags, as shown below:

How to set up a design editor for transactional email?

Multi-language support per document model 

Multi-language support for your templates is available. Simply define multiple document models per each language you need. We provided some predefined templates per language for most used templates as part of the default setting.   

How to migrate a template from preproduction to production environments? 

You will notice that every template newly created template will be generating a *.json file that is available for download. Currently (in Beta status of the release) the uploading is not yet enabled. In future releases, we'll enable the possibility to upload those templates so that you can test them first in testing environments (such as preproduction) before uploading a final version to your production environment.

Other details

Specialities

While this new functionality provides a significant improvement to how transactional emails are managed today, you will notice that some of the documentation templates are populated with some technical code conditions. This will be improved over time but for now ...

Formats available

While this feature was primarily built for transactional emails, it might be useful to design other formats of documents. We also support the creation of document models in PDF format.