How To: Build email content

Sending Transactional Emails

Transactional emails are intended for individual contacts and contain content that completes a transaction or process the recipient initiated (e.g. order receipt, password reset, etc...). Transactional emails should not be used to send marketing content.
NOTE: Transactional emails must be enabled for your account before use. Please contact support for access.

To send a transactional email, simply pass an email object along with an array of contact objects to the emails/sendTransactional endpoint. This will create new contact records if they don't already exist.

In the example below, we will send an order receipt email to a single recipient. Our sample template contains a single editable area (body slot) so we provide only the content for that part of the template.

POST

/emails/sendTransactional

cURL

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curl https://api.emailer.emfluence.com/v1/emails/sendTransactional \
	-H "Authorization: Bearer {{accessToken}}" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	-X POST \
	-d '{
  "email": {
		"fromName": "ACME",
		"fromAddress": "orders@example.com",
		"subject": "Thanks for your order, $$firstName!",
		"templateID": 1000,
		"content": {
			"body_slot1": "<p>Hi, $$firstName</p><p>Thank you for your order!</p><h2>Your order number is 3289389238293</h2>"
		}
  },
  "contacts": [
    {
      "email":"john.doe1@example.com",
      "firstName": "John"
    }
  ]
}'