How to Upload and Send Email Newsletter Templates with Sendy.co

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► Follow our comprehensive video tutorial to find out how to upload and send Email Newsletter Templates with Sendy.co to make the most out of self-hosted email application.
Sendy.co is a self-hosted email newsletter application that uses Amazon Simple Email Service to send authenticated bulk emails.
Its main advantage is that it is incredibly cheap, making it an ideal option for all those companies that exist on a shoestring budget.
It has everything: reports, subscribers’ management system, list segmentation, autoresponders. It does not have one thing - email template builder. Though, there is a simple solution.
Use Postcards to create beautiful email newsletter designs; and, we will show you how to upload and send Email Newsletter Templates with Sendy.co.
Our video tutorial covers a basic routine of taking code and images from a freshly baked Postcards email template and turn them into Sendy.co template.
Let us start with prerequisites since meeting the requirements will allow you to repeat our step-by-step guide efficiently.
► Make sure you have a Designmodo account to use Postcards, Sendy App that is preinstalled, and a text editor to work with HTML files.
Step 1 Gather the tags you want to use. We are going to follow the best practices of running successful email marketing campaigns, and use email tags to personify each newsletter by adding dynamic content.
Sendy has a bunch of email tags. You can use whichever you want. As for us, we will go for a Name tag and Unsubscribe URL tag since they should be present in every email newsletter.
Step 2 Create a Postcards template and export it. It is time to create an email template. It is here where your Designmodo account comes in handy. Open Postcards App.
Create any design you want, just remember to add a footer section and module with the text UI element so that we can incorporate email tags.
First, add the Name tag. Select Text UI element; mine is located in the Header section. In the menu on the right side, click on the title option. Inside text editor, add the tag and a welcome phrase.
Second, add the Unsubscribe URL tag. Select the Footer section. There find an email address. Click on it, and in the menu on the right, replace the default text with “Unsubscribe” and URL with “[unsubscribe]” tag.
Everything is done. Now we need to export the template. Download a ZIP package and extract it into a folder.
Step 3 Create a template in Sendy using Postcards files. Open Sendy App. Create a new template. Click on the “Source” button to open a code editor.
Open index.html file exported from Postcards App. Copy everything inside and paste it into the Sendy’s code editor. Name your template and save the progress.
If you preview the template now, you will see that it works. However, images are missing. Let us add them.
Step 4 Add the images to the template. Go back to the email editor. Find the image icon on the top panel and click on it.
Select the “Upload” tab. There you can upload your images to the application.
After you are done with adding an image to the server, you need to change the old URL to a new one in the template.
Copy the new URL provided by the system. Go back to the code editor. Find the image in the template and replace the source URL. Save progress. Now the image should work.
Repeat this step for all images in your template.
That is all. Now you know how to upload and send Email Newsletter Templates with Sendy.co, pleasing contacts with beautifully designed and personified emails.

[@victormutta1115]

This was helpful. Thank you!

[@MariaMarsala]

Can't the images be added to a folder on the website or to a images folder in in the Sendy file instead of what's done in the tutorial?

[@tcindie]

It'd be a lot less painful to simply drop all the files into the uploads directory directly within the sendy codebase, and then do a find/replace on the source replacing images/ with the appropriate domain/path/to/file ... or better yet - use that 'host images online' option when exporting 🤣

[@exchangeph]

you shouldve chosen a simpler template with fewer images if you wanted to demo it. Watching you upload each image one at a time and updating the template on the template page instead of using notepad++ was painful to watch.