Sending bulk emails with beabee
If you want to send the same email to multiple recipients while personalising parts of the content—such as the greeting, name, or specific sections of text—you can do this with beabee. All you need is your email content and a CSV file containing your recipients' email addresses, names, and any other information you want to insert into the email using Merge Fields.
This feature is ideal when you want to customise certain parts of an email for different groups of recipients. For example, you can invite recipients who haven't subscribed to your newsletter yet to sign up at the end of the email, while thanking existing subscribers for their support. You can also personalise content based on location by automatically inserting the recipient's city, neighbourhood, or other relevant information.
How it works
Log in to your beabee instance and click Old dashboard in the left-hand navigation. Then go to Tools and Emails.
On this page, you'll find a list of all emails that have already been created in your instance. Scroll to the bottom of the page to create a new email.
Fill in the following fields:
Email name
Sender email address
Sender name
Subject
Email content
If you want to personalise parts of the email for each recipient, use merge tages. Merge Fields use the following format: *|MERGEFIELD|*. For example:
*|FNAME|* for the recipient's first name
*|STATE|* for their state or region
*|SIGNOFF|* for a custom closing message
You can choose any Merge Field name you like.
When you're finished, click Create to save the email.
After saving the email, scroll down to the One-off mailings section.
Here, you can upload a CSV file containing your recipients.
Your CSV file should include one column for each Merge Field you want to use. It must also include at least the recipients' email addresses, first names, and last names.
A sample CSV file might look like this:
Email Address
First Name
Last Name
State
svenja@email.com
Svenja
Schlange
Baden-Württemberg
anja@email.com
Anja
Amsel
Hamburg
tobias@email.com
Tobias
Taube
Saxony
Once you've uploaded your CSV file, click Preview.
Next, map each Merge Field to the corresponding column in your CSV file. This ensures that the values from your CSV are automatically inserted into the correct Merge Fields when the email is sent.
Use the preview to verify that all Merge Fields have been replaced with the correct values from your CSV file. If everything looks correct, check the Ready to send? box and click Send to send the emails.
Done! Every contact in your CSV file will receive a personalised version of your email with the appropriate content inserted automatically.
Missing a guide or need support? Let us know!
Last updated