Creating an Email Campaign

Email messages are great for delivering content to the user on their terms. They are also wonderful tools to re-engage users who may have even uninstalled your app! Customized and tailored email messages will enhance the user experience and help your user get the most value out of your app.

To see examples of email campaigns, check out our Client Integration Gallery.

Step 1: Create a New Campaign

Click Create Campaign in the top right corner of the Campaigns page.

Step 2: Compose Your Email or Use a Template

Click on the appropriate tile to choose an existing email template or upload one from a file, and then draft your message.

Once you choose a template for your email you’ll see an overview of your email, where you can quickly jump to the fullscreen editor, change your sending info, and view warnings about deliverability or law compliance.

Step 2a: Adding Email Headers

Email headers contain information about the email being sent. These key:value pairs typically have information about the sender, recipient, authentication protocals and contain email routing information. Braze automatically adds the necessary header information as required by the RFC and for emails to properly be delivered to your inbox provider. However, Braze does allow our customers flexibility, to add additional email headers as needed for advanced use cases. There are a few reserved fields that will be overwritten by the Braze platform during sending. Avoid using the following keys: ‘x-sg-id’, ‘x-sg-eid’, ‘received’, ‘dkim-signature’, ‘Content-Type’, ‘Content-Transfer-Encoding’, ‘To’, ‘From’, ‘Subject’, ‘Reply-To’, ‘CC’, ‘BCC’, ‘Received’, ‘DKIM-Signature’, ‘MIME-Version’

Step 2b: Preview and Test Your Message

After you finish composing your perfect email, you need to test it before sending it out! Navigate to the test page by clicking the “Preview and Test” button at the bottom of the overview screen. Use Preview as User to make sure that your Connected Content and personalization calls are working as they should and to get a sense of how your message may view on desktop vs. mobile. Use Test Sends to ensure that your email displays properly on a variety of devices and email clients.

Step 2c: Check for Email Errors

The new Email Editor will call out problems with your message before you send. Here’s a list of errors that are accounted for in our editor:

• From Display Name and Header not specified together.
• Invalid From and Reply-To Emails.
• Duplicate Header Keys.
• Liquid Syntax Problems.
• E-Mail bodies larger than 400kb; bodies are highly recommended to be smaller than 102kb.
• Emails with blank Bodies or Subjects.
• Emails with no unsubscribe link.
• The email that you are sending from is not whitelisted, thus sends will be highly limited to ensure deliverability.

Step 3: Schedule Your Messaging Campaign

You can schedule your campaigns against three types of delivery:

• Scheduled (sending your campaign at a designated time),
• Action-Based (sending when your users perform specified actions), and
• API-Triggered (sending according to an API request).

• Scheduled Delivery
• Action-Based Delivery
• API-Triggered Delivery

Step 4: Choose Conversion Events

Braze allows you to track how often users perform specific actions (Conversion Events) after receiving a campaign. You can specify any of the following actions as a “Conversion Event”:

• Opens App
• Makes Purchase
  • This can be a generic purchase or a specific item
• Performs specific custom event
• Opens Email
• Clicks Email

You have the option of allowing up to a 30 day window during which a conversion will be counted if the user takes the specified action. While Braze automatically tracks opens and clicks for your campaign, you may wish to set the conversion event to be when a user opens or clicks on an email address to take advantage of Braze’s Intelligent Selection feature.

Step 5: Choose Your Target Segment

Next, you need to choose the target segment from the dropdown menu. You’ll automatically be given a snapshot of what that segment population looks like right now, including how many users within that segment are reachable via email. Keep in mind that exact segment membership is always calculated just before the message is sent.

Optionally, you can also choose to limit delivery to a specified number of users within the segment, or allow users to receive the same message twice upon a recurrence of the campaign as well.

Step 6: Review and Deploy

The final page will give you a summary of the campaign you’ve just designed. Clicking “Start Campaign” will enable it for sending. Confirm all the relevant details and watch the data roll in!

Results Data

Braze will show you the number of emails sent, opened, clicked through, sent to spam, and bounced for each campaign you deploy. Additionally, Braze’s email analytics tool allows for the ability to see how your users’ clicks are divided across the links in an email campaign. Clicking on each variation expands/collapses information on what percentage of users clicked on which link in an email campaign.

When looking at clicks for your variant, the clicks will reflect unique clicks. When you expand each variation, the clicks for each link within the variation will reflect total clicks (not unique). Braze also gives you the ability to visualize where users are clicking within a given email campaign.