Build and send a newsletter

A newsletter is a designed email with headings, text, pictures, buttons, and events. It also becomes a web page you can post anywhere.

Steps

1. Go to Messages and click Build a newsletter.
2. Under Pick a starting point, choose Weekly update, Event flyer, or Blank.
3. Edit the blocks. Add more with Heading, Text, Image, Button, Event, or Divider. The preview updates as you type.
4. Click Save.
5. Under Who gets it, check your groups (admins can also add tags) and click Save audience.
6. Under Send a test to yourself first, click Send test and check your email.
7. Click Send to and the number of families, then confirm.

After it sends

• It sends in the background. The page shows how many are done. You can leave the page.
• How it did shows families reached, about how many opened, how many clicked a link, and the top links.
• Click View the web page to get the link to share.
• Later, click a sent newsletter's title in your list of newsletters to see How it did again.

Good to know

• Newsletters go by email only, 1 credit per family. The cost shows above the send button.
• Counts only. No one can see which family opened or clicked. Opens are approximate.
• If the send says Stopped early, add credits, then click Resume sending. No one gets it twice.
• Your logo and color come from Settings.