Follow the steps below to prepare and upload your HTML template into Pendula.
Further editing your HTML template after it has been imported into Pendula may cause unexpected results. For this reason we recommend making any design changes prior to importing into Pendula.
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Prepare your HTML with in-line styling
Remove invalid merge fields and links
Ensure images are publicly hosted
Prepare your HTML with in-line styling
To ensure maximum rendering capability across different email clients, the Pendula email builder does not support <style> for specifying CSS.
To avoid any styling in the header from being stripped out once imported into Pendula, firstly ensure your HTML is compiled with inline styling.
To easily compile HTML with in-line styling, you can use third party tools such as Litmus.
Remove invalid merge fields and links
If you are importing HTML from another email builder or platform, ensure it does not contain any invalid merge fields (anything with a {{ }}
) which do not exist on the related object of your template or within your datasource in general.
Invalid merge fields can prevent you from saving your template and cause flows to error.
Similarly, ensure any hyperlinks (such as view in web or unsubscribe) do not reference invalid URLs.
Ensure your images are publicly hosted
Any images within your HTML need to be publicly accessible in order to render within a recipient's email client.
How to upload HTML
- When you get to the Select a starting point for your template section, select Code your own
- Click on Paste your own code and paste your HTML into the box, then click Insert
- Following the "Code pasted successfully" confirmation message, click on Save & Next
- Click on Save within the email builder.
Send a test email
After your HTML has been imported, we recommend sending yourself a test email via a flow to validate links, merge fields and styling are rendering correctly.