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Implementation Guide

Implementation Guide – Data Bridge Integration with Mailchimp

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A complete implementation guide of Data Bridge integration with Mailchimp.    

All procedures in this document are compatible with the SGS app version V1.3.3.

In summary, this document covers the following:

  • Assigning Roles and Permissions in Altru
  • Creation of queries in Altru
  • Configuring the Social Good Software application (app.socialgoodsoftware.com).

For other concerns and related articles, please visit help.socialgoodsoftware.com or email us at implementation@socialgoodsoftware.com.

Please reach us at support@socialgoodsoftware.com for your questions, clarifications, and other concerns. We are always happy to help!

Implementation Guide – Data Bridge Integration with Google Sheets

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A complete implementation guide of Data Bridge integration with Google Sheets.    

All procedures in this document are compatible with the SGS app version V1.3.3.

In summary, this document covers the following:

  • Assigning Roles and Permissions in Altru
  • Creation of queries in Altru
  • Configuring the Social Good Software application (app.socialgoodsoftware.com).

For other concerns and related articles, please visit help.socialgoodsoftware.com or email us at implementation@socialgoodsoftware.com.

Please reach us at support@socialgoodsoftware.com for your questions, clarifications, and other concerns. We are always happy to help!

Implementation Guide – Data Bridge Integration with Active Campaign

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A complete implementation guide of Data Bridge integration with Active Campaign.    

All procedures in this document are compatible with the SGS app version V1.3.3.

In summary, this document covers the following:

  • Assigning Roles and Permissions in Altru
  • Creation of queries in Altru
  • Configuring the Social Good Software application (app.socialgoodsoftware.com).

For other concerns and related articles, please visit help.socialgoodsoftware.com or email us at implementation@socialgoodsoftware.com.

Please reach us at support@socialgoodsoftware.com for your questions, clarifications, and other concerns. We are always happy to help!

Types of emails for eTickets

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Introduction

Email designer is an app that allows you to customize and send automated emails for your Altru transactions. This tool is useful for different types of emails for eTickets because through it you can send messages with tickets in PDF form. Guests are no longer need to click on the link to download the ticket since it was already replaced by a ticket in PDF form.

In this guide, you will learn what are the types of emails for eTickets, the components of each email, and some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) that we received regarding this topic. 

How to set-up your emails in three (3) steps:

1. Write your email in Google Docs or Microsoft word

  • We recommend that you first draft your email to Google docs or Microsoft word and check that you include all the merge fields that you need.

2. Create your query and note type with Altru for your email

  • Make sure that your query identifies who the receivers of the email are. Create a Note type in Altru to be able to monitor if the emails were sent.

3. Setup the Email Designer with your content and query.

  • To be able to send out this email, put together the content and the query to the Email Designer. 

The process of setting up your emails starts from running the query and feeding it to the Email Designer. If there are individuals who match the query, an email for that particular person will be sent out. Once the email was sent out, the app will grab a copy of it and attach it to Altru as Note Type so there will be an email attached inside the particular sales order.

Three (3) Types of Emails for eTickets

1. eTicket Email is great for sending out a PDF that auto generated an eTicket number and a PDF with their tickets.

types of emails for eTickets

There are two emails that Altru sends out. The first email is about what the guests’ purchased and the second is the link to their eTicket. 

With the use of the Email Designer, we will replace the second email that Altru sends which is the link to their ticket with our eTicket email where we will instead attach a PDF to the tickets.

2. Reminder Email is great for sending out a reminder of their upcoming visit with tickets attached as a PDF. This email can go out the day of or one day before.

types of emails for eTickets

3. Post Visit Email is great for following up with guests who have visited. You can send a membership offer or just collect feedback on their experience. 

types of emails for eTickets

It is an email to thank  the guests for visiting. Typically sent out the day or the following day after the visit.You can send this email without PDF or tickets.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Do these emails account for sales orders over the phone, online and in person?

  • The discussed type of emails above will account for all three types of sales methods. You can also exclude a specific sales method at the query level.

2. If I manually resend an email, will my tickets be updated?

  • Yes, If you resend an email the tickets will be generated at the time the email is being sent.

3. If I delete the note type from the sales order, will the email go out with the right tickets?

  • Yes, the query is looking at sales orders that do not have a note type and sends an email. If you remove the note type from the sales order, another version of an email will get off with another PDF. Typically, you won’t be doing this unless you need to resend it.

4. If I open the eTicket preview on the Email Designer, will I see the latest ticket available?

  • Yes, you will see the latest ticket  available whenever you click on the link

The purpose of this documentation is to help you understand the three (3) types of eTicket emails, and how these emails work so that it will be easier for you to create and set up eTicket emails based on their type for your organization.

Emails you need to set up for Digital Membership cards

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Introduction

There are many transactional emails for Digital Membership Cards that we can configure with Email Designer. Because of that, we create this documentation for you to fully understand the functions and importance of these emails.

Knowing how these emails work and when to use it will help you better understand what emails you need to set up with your Digital Membership Cards and which one applies for your Membership Portal.

Different emails for Digital Membership Cards :

Launch Email

Useful in announcing your new Digital Membership Cards to the entire membership base of all active members of your organization. 

  • It is an automated email that you send out to the entire membership base of active members. You can use this launch email to inform members about the new Digital Membership Cards that the organization is officially launching or about the Membership Portal.
  • It is a one-time email announcement that you can send out to your active members. Receivers of this email are between 2,000 to 50,000 constituents depending on how many members your organization has.
  • Launch email will not be of use anymore after sending it to all active members. But there is an exemption which is when the organization resends it to their Board Members in the following year. You can turn on this email for that particular one-time communication.

Automated Welcome Email

Use to welcome all your new members who purchase online, advance, and daily sales. You need to have a sales order to be able to send this email.

  • An email that runs continuously in which once triggered will automatically send out to welcome those individuals who signed up and become new members as well as those who renewed their membership.
  • It is an automated welcome email that requires a sales order. If someone purchases through online, advance and daily sales, he/she will get a welcome email informing that he/she  purchased this particular membership.

Back Office Gift Email

Welcome email for the recipients or givers of the members who purchase through the back office. Useful for automatically sending out gift emails with gift messages.

  • It is an automated welcome email that you can send to the recipient and gift-givers of the members. Members who purchase through the back office that contain gift messages that can customize are the receiver of this email.

Automated Gift Email

Welcome email for recipients or givers of the members who purchase online, advance, and daily sales. Useful for automatically sending out gift emails and gift messages.

  • An automated welcome email sent to recipients and gift-givers for purchasing online, daily, or in advanced sales. It contains a gift message that can customize depending on how the organization wants to set it.

Back Office Email

An email that welcomes all your new members who purchase via mail-in or you enter manually. A sales order is not necessary to send this email.

  • A welcome email that automatically triggers to welcome new members who purchase through mail-in, entered manually, or through the batch. Sales order is not necessary for this kind of email to receive.

Reminder Email

Send out reminders for your members 120, 60, 30, 15, 7 days before the membership’s expiration date.

  • An automated email that you can send out to remind members to renew their membership. You can set it up once to send out on certain days before the expiration date.
  • You can also customize the specific day you want to send the reminder email.

Lapsed Membership Email

Send out follow-up for your members 7, 15, 30, 60, 90, 120 days after their expiration date.

  • A follow-up email that you can set up once and send out at a specific time after the expiration date of membership to those members who haven’t renewed.

Manual Tagging Email

Useful for those that want to receive the email again regardless of the method of how they purchased their membership. To be able to trigger the email, you have to do manual tagging with note type.

  • A welcome email that you can trigger by tagging a membership. Use this email when a member requests to resend the welcome email due to some reasons like they lost the original message, lost access to their email or just wants to email them again the welcome email.
  • Manual Tagging is useful whenever there are requests to receive their welcome email again regardless of the method they use to purchase their membership. It also required notes for this email to be triggered. 

Auto Renew Email

Send auto-reminders for payments on credit cards being used for auto-renewing memberships. This can go out relative to the expiration date.

  • This email is for everybody who is auto-renewing their membership.
  • Auto-renew email is sent out informing members who use credit cards for payment about their membership renewal which will automatically charge to their cards. 
  • This email can go out before or after the credit card gets charged. It is up to you when you want to send the auto-renewal email but we recommend sending this email out 2 weeks before the credit card gets charged to catch any changes on the card.

Below is a matrix that you can use as a guide. It will let you know what activities each of these emails covered.

Emails for Digital Membership Card

Summary

You now have an idea what are the different emails for Digital Membership Card that you can configure with Email Designer. This will make it easier for you to identify which email is applicable for a certain activity and which one is sent out for a specific transaction.

If you have more questions please reach out to us through our support channel.

How to clean up a constant contact list

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Introduction

Having clean data is necessary as you can use these lists for marketing or any promotional activity from your organization. Make sure to clean your records from tools like Constant Contact and Mailchimp before you sync it over to have consistent data within Altru. Learn how to free your Constant Contact list from bad records without exerting a lot of effort in sorting and cleaning your data using the Data Bridge.

Cleaning up a Constant Contact list

1: Log in to your Social Good Software account.

2: Proceed to Data Bridge.

3: Click on create widget button.

4: A dialog box will pop out wherein you need to put on the name of the Widget before you click Next.

5: Select the widget type then click Next.

6: You now have a new Widget. Click on it and authorize it to go into Constant Contact.

7: Once it was authenticated, on the Widget Settings under Mailing List select the list that you want its data to be clean up. In this illustration, we will go with New Members.

8: Proceed to the Data Cleanup where you can see your first 500 rows of record based on the selected mailing list and start cleaning it up.

9: On the left side of the window located the options that you can enable and disable. Each of these options has different rules that you can take advantage of to have a consistent record. You can also test your configuration to see what works for you and Save Settings.

10: If everything looks good, export as a CSV or XLS format to perform a spot check. The option to export the data is located at the bottom part of the window.

11: Open the document to see if all the data is nice and clean; spot check if necessary. If you found inconsistent data, you can fix it manually.

12: You can now reimport this clean list of contacts into Constant Contact. 

Summary

These options are specially made with the intention of helping you clean your data from tools like Constant Contact. Repeat this process to all your lists before you sync it over to Altru to free your records from any bad data.

If you have more questions, please reach out to us through our support channel.