How do I create a broadcast email template?

First things first! About ready to send your first email?

Start with a Message Template and design your emails with your committee's assets, on-brand header styles, body styles, and button colors. Choose an existing template, use the default options, or design a brand new look. Once you create a template to your liking, you’ll be able to choose and apply this template to your email in your email editor's next step.

To create a new Email Template:

Navigate to the Email Broadcasts tab on th left side of your screen
Select the Templates button at the top right of your screen
From the Email Broadcast Templates tab, select + Add email broadcast template to create a new template
Edit any and all of the following sections of your template (See below for details on each section): General, Body, Header, Footer, Buttons, and Advanced.
Click the Update Email Broadcast Template button to save your changes before returning to the Email Broadcast tab
To apply this template to your emails, add a New Email Broadcast. On Step 3: Message, you can keep the Primary template or you can click from the drop down and choose your preferred style.

If you are drafting a message and notice an element you'd like to modify at the template level, select the Manage button above the email preview to be taken to the chosen template.

What parts of an Email Template can I customize?

From the Email Broadcast Templates editor, you can add detail that customizes the look and feel of your emails so that they fit your committee or organization's branding. You can also create other templates that appear different than your team's branding to introduce a new theme for certain email campaigns (e.g. A Note from the Candidate or emails that center on contributing toward Merch). See below for details on each section of your Email Broadcast Template editor:

At the top choose the internal name for your template such as “Campaign-Branding” or “Blue-Palette” that your team can identify as the best template to apply to certain emails.
General - Toggle Yes or No to make the template you're working on the Primary Template option - the template to be used for all emails (Note: You can still opt for a different template when building your email). Toggle Yes or No to show the 'Paid for by' Disclaimer
Body - Set font family, font size, padding of your margins, and the width and color of the body of your email.
Header - Set the leading graphic of your email with an image (e.g. logo), logo redirect URL, text, padding settings
Footer - Set the leading graphic of your email with an image (e.g. logo), logo redirect URL, text, padding settings
Buttons - Choose the colors of your calls to action and button group
Advanced - Optional CSS rules