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E-mail pre-notification

PLUS

With e-mail pre-notification you can send advance information to your customer about a shipment.

  • In addition to shipment information, the notification contains a traceable package ID and often contact information to the carrier.

  • With branded e-mail pre-notification you create notification templates with e.g. your company's logo, an offer or an ad.

  • You can add a message to the receiver.

    The receiver’s country decides the language used in the message. Available languages are Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, English and German. English is used when official language is missing.

  • If you use the article directory you can choose to include information about articles in the e-mail. This might replace a packing slip.

  • You can use pre-notification with standard printing and printing favorites.

  • For using pre-notification through APIConnect, please refer to the REST API documentation. For OnlineConnect, please refer to the XML file specification.

E-mail pre-notification - Standard printing

  1. Go to Shipments > Standard printing and enter your shipment details.

  2. In the Options section, check the Pre-notification (e-mail) box.

  3. You can type a personal message in addition to the general text used in the notification. Use pipe characters, (|), for line breaks.

  4. If you use branded e-mail pre-notification, select a template.

  5. Click Print.

E-mail pre-notification - Printing favorites

  1. Go to Maintenance > Printing favorites.

  2. Click New Printing favorite, or Search followed by UO_Edit_icon.gif to the left of an existing printing favorite.

  3. For a new printing favorite, enter details as instructed for printing favorites.

  4. For both new and existing printing favorites, go to the Service and addons section and click Change.

  5. Scroll down to the Options section and check the Pre-notification (Email) box.

    You can specify whether the information should be hidden, locked or selectable.

  6. You can type a personal message in addition to the general text used in the notification. Use pipe characters, (|), for line breaks.

  7. If you have branded e-mail pre-notification, select a template.

  8. Go to Shipments > Printing favorites to use the printing favorite with e-mail pre-notification for a shipment.

You can add e-mail pre-notification to an existing printing favorite for a single shipment.

  1. Go to Shipments > Printing favorites.

  2. Select printing favorite by clicking UO_Run_icon.gif.

  3. On the page Print - shipment and addons, in the Options section, select Pre-notification (E-mail).

    The setting is not saved in the printing favorite.

Example:

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Branded e-mail pre-notification

PLUS ADDON

With branded e-mail pre-notification you create templates for the notifications that are sent to your customers.

A template can contain, for example, your company's logo, an offer or an ad.

  1. Go to Maintenance > Notification templates.

  2. Click New e-mail template.

  3. The E-mail sender name is the name, e.g. your company name, that will be visible for the receiver.

  4. You can upload two images, one as header and one as footer. The recommended image size is 930 x 150 pixels. Maximum file size is 100 kB.

  5. Click Finish to create the template.

  6. Select a Track & Trace template to link your e-mail pre-notification template to a branded Track & Trace template.

Click Preview to see what the notification template looks like.

Example:

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If you want to show, edit or delete an e-mail template, use the search function.

A default pre-notification template can be set on account and profile group level.