Please note: this article is only applicable to websites built after November 2018.
This article will go into detail about how to add a newsletter to your practice website and notify subscribers.
In this article:
- How to create a newsletter
- Email newsletters to subscribers
- Manage subscribers
- How patients sign up to newsletters
- How to unsubscribe a patient from newsletters
How to create a newsletter
To create a newsletter you will first need to navigate to the 'Newsletter' section within the editor menu
On this screen you will see three options. Click the '+ Create Newsletter' option.
You will have the following items to fill in:
- Name - This is the name of the newsletter you'd like to be displayed on the website.
- File - This is the file you'd like to upload as the newsletter. Although you can upload word documents, we recommend uploading newsletters as PDFs for the best accessibility for patients.
- Is Visible - This toggle will change whether the newsletter is displayed within the Newsletter widget and on the News page. If it is set to on and is the most recent newsletter, it will show in the Newsletter widget and News page. If it is no longer the most recently uploaded newsletter, it will no longer show in the newsletter widget and will be moved to an archived section on the News page.
Once you have completed the Create a Newsletter page and clicked save it will then be added to the main Newsletter page as follows:
Patient will then see the newsletter on the News page and the Newsletter widget within the site:
Email newsletter to subscribers
To get your newsletters to subscribers once uploaded, you can email the newsletter from the Newsletter page.
Click the 'Email Subscribers' button at the top of the newsletter page.
You will have the following items to fill in:
- Subject - This will be the subject line for the email.
- Body - This will be the main body of the email that subscribers receive.
- Select Publication - You have an option to choose no publication, upload a publication, or choose from any existing newsletters you have already uploaded.
Once this is filled in and you click 'Send' it will send to all existing Newsletter subscribers.
Manage subscribers
To see how to manage subscribers, please see the Manage Website Subscribers article.
How patients sign up to newsletters
Patients can sign up to receive newsletters via the newsletter widget.
To see how to add this widget please see Adding widgets to a row.
Once the Newsletter widget is on the website, patients can fill in their forename, surname and email to sign up to newsletters. This will add them into the subscribers section of the editor menu.
How to unsubscribe a patient from newsletters
Patients will have an unsubscribe button included in the Newsletters email to them so they can remove themselves from newsletters.
If the practice is needing to remove patients from newsletters please see Removing subscribers.
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