When you're ready to test your campaign content, start by running Basic Validation Report to check for broken links. Then, send a test email to yourself to see how it renders. Next, you can send yourself a quick send email to see how actual guest data will appear in the email. Read on for more information.

Basic Validation Report

The Basic Validation Report is a static analysis that checks for a number of potential issues with your campaign, including broken links, images, HTML standards conformity and unwanted JavaScript. It does not does not include deliverability.

After editing your template on the Template tab select Save and Continue. This will advance you to the Testing Tab and trigger the running of a Basic Validation Report on your campaign. Select View Now to see your results.

Images

eInsight checks each image in the campaign and verifies that the image is available. The Internet is dynamic; connectivity and website availability can change periodically. A green result indicates that at the time of analysis, eInsight was able to verify that the image was available. This does not necessarily mean that at any other time the image will be available.

Links

eInsight checks each link in the campaign and verifies that the link is active (the link does not produce an error and properly navigates to a web a page). It cannot determine if the resulting web page was the intended destination. To be sure that the link goes to the intended page, click the link in the email.

The Internet is dynamic; connectivity and website availability can change periodically. A green result indicates that at the time of analysis, eInsight was able verify that the link was active. This does not necessarily mean that at any other time the link will be active.

Microsoft Word Tags

When you copy text to your clipboard from Microsoft Word and paste it into your campaign you are likely copying and pasting Microsoft Word Tags (invisible formatting code) as well. These tags can result in the message being displayed incorrectly in some email clients. To avoid this issue, first paste your text into Notepad, deselect your text, re-select it, copy it anew, then paste it into your campaign. Or use a program other than Word to write your content. eInsight lets you know if there are Microsoft Word Tags in your campaign so you can remove them.

Spam Assassin

eInsight runs your campaign through a popular spam filter that uses a scoring system to determine whether an email will be flagged as spam. A total score of 5.0 or higher is considered undesirable.

Unwanted HTML Tags

eInsight checks for HTML tags that are considered unwanted for HTML-based email campaigns.

Rerun the Basic Validation Report

Navigate to Campaigns > Manage. Locate your campaign and click the name. Click on the Testing tab. Here you can review the results of the latest report or select Run Again to rerun the report.  

Advanced Reporting

On the Testing tab, select Advanced to access the Inbox Preview. Click Launch to review results of a previously run test or select Request New to generate a new one. 

Send a Test Email

Send a test marketing or transactional campaign to internal or external recipients populated with random guest data.

From Campaign Details in Manage Campaign

1. Navigate to Campaigns > Manage.
2. Click the campaign name to open the Campaign Details.
3. Select Send Test in the top right corner.
4. Continue here.

From the Testing Tab

1. Navigate to Campaigns > Create > Testing tab.
2. Select Send to Test Email(s).
3. Continue here.

Quick Send

Send a test marketing or transactional campaign to internal or external recipients populated with data from a specific guest of your choosing. 

1. Navigate to Campaigns > Manage.
2. Click the campaign name to open the Campaign Details.
3. Select the Audience Tab > Customer Details.
4. Select the Vertical Ellipsis Icon for the guest you'd like to use for the test, then select Quick Send.
5. Continue here.

Choose Recipients

In the modal box that appears, confirm that the email address(es) you are sending to are in compliance with global spam laws by checking the box.

Use the Filter box to quickly find particular recipients. Check the box next to existing recipients to send them a test email.

Select Add to add a new recipient to one of your seed lists.

Select Manage next to an existing recipient to edit their name/email address or to delete them from the seed list.

Send the Test Email or Quick Send

Scroll to the bottom and select Submit Request.

See Quick Send via Customer Details to learn how to test personalization tags and/or dynamic content with Quick Send.