How to Send a Test Email and SMS
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You may want to send a test email to yourself, or perhaps you want to run yourself through our software using a workflow as a test/trial run. Both are easy to do and yet slightly different.
The best practice is to run yourself through the workflow as the most thorough and accurate way to experience what your lead will see through those workflow actions. If you just send a test email or SMS through the builder some of the custom values may not populate and as such, it will appear that your email/SMS isn't working how you want it to. Giving yourself a test run through the workflow is a great way to do a quality audit.
Part 1. Running yourself through a workflow.
Step 1: Go to the Contacts section and add yourself as a contact (use a different email address and phone number than the one for your user login.)
Step 2: Click the add workflow button, choose the workflow that you want to test, leave the āevent dateā blank then hit add button.
NOTE: If you donāt get the communication, check the following items in the following order:
Is your workflow set to āPublishedā? If not, Publish it and re-run the workflow (ensure that āAllow Multipleā is enabled).
If you go to your Test Contact, does it show that the communication went out? If yes, look at #3 and #4. If no, look at #1.
If you arenāt getting SMSs, check that you have set up your phone number.
If you arenāt getting emails, check that you have set up your SMTP provider
Part 2. Sending a test email within the email builder.
Step 1: Go to Marketing > Emails > Templates and select the email template you wish to test.
Step 2: Select the three dots on the top right and select āTest Emailā
Step 3: Enter the from address, ātoā field, and email subject line.
Step 4: Select āSend Test Emailā
Please note that custom values may not properly fill in the test email (for example: {contact. email} may show as blank.)