RSVP Plug-In
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What is RSVP plug-in?
Send regular emails and request RSVP from your recipients. Easily integrate into your campaigns. An easy-to-use plug-in for anyone who is interested in sending event notification emails.
Benefits
- Easy installation and use
- Ability to re-brand RSVP page
- Expire dates for events
Installation
Follow these easy steps to complete installation process:
- Download RSVP plug-in from your client area > downloads section
- Unzip the package on your desktop
- Upload contents of "upload" directory your Oempro4/plugins directory on your server
- Login to the administrator area of your Oempro4
- Click "Settings > Plug-In Manager" link
- Click"Enable" button of RSVP Plug-In item
- Go to "User Groups" and edit user groups that you want to give permission for this plug-in
- Check "RSVP plug-in" permission in Plug-In Permissions section
Quick Start Guide
RSVP plug-in is a user side plug-in which means only users can access this plug-in through the user area. Users will be able to access this plug-in if the user group has permission to access.
Accessing RSVP Section
After logging into Oempro4 user area, move your mouse over "Manage" link on the top menu and you will see the "RSVP Requests" link:
Click the link you see above and you will be redirected to RSVP request browse page. If you have created RSVP requests, you will see list of your requests in this page. Otherwise, list will be empty until you create a new RSVP request.
Creating RSVP Request
In order to create new RSVP request, simply click "Create a new rsvp request" link on the browse screen. Oempro4 will display you a window asking for RSVP details. All fields in this window are required to fill in:
- Event Title
- Enter the title of the event. Entered information will be displayed in RSVP request page to your recipients.
- Description
- Enter the description of the event. This information will also be displayed to your recipients in RSVP request page.
- Response Until
- Select the expiry date for the event. Recipients will not be able to submit their RSVP after the set date.
Advanced Options Click "View advanced options" link if you want to customize and re-brand RSVP request page for your recipients. Once it's clicked, RSVP plug-in will ask the target URL for the "template" page.
- RSVP Page URL
- Enter the URL of your target template page for RSVP requesting page.
- Thank You URL
- Enter the URL where recipients will be redirected after RSVP is submitted
Customizing RSVP and Thank You Pages
RSVP requesting page and result page can be re-branded based on your needs. RSVP plug-in provides you great flexibility and freedom at this point.
Using default RSVP page URL If you decide to use the default template for your RSVP request page, just leave emtpy the "RSVP Page URL" field. Whenever your RSVP link is clicked, the following template will be shown to your recipient for RSVP confirmation:
Using re-branded RSVP page URL
If you decide to use a re-branded template for your RSVP request page, just design/code and upload it to your web server. Once this is done, enter the URL of the page on "RSVP Page URL" field.
There are some tags which should exist in your template page in order to show RSVP details to the recipient. These are;
- _Insert
- EventTitle_
- This tag will be replaced with the title of your RSVP request ("Event Title" field)
- _Insert
- EventDescription_
- This tag will be replaced with the description of your RSVP request ("Description" field)
- _Insert
- Form_
- This tag will be replaced with the HTML form code for requesting RSVP
You can style the look-n-feel easily through CSS or other methods.
If you want your recipients to be redirected to another website page, just enter the target URL in "Thank You URL". Once RSVP request is received, recipient will be redirected to the URL you have entered.
You can see an example of RSVP request below:
Browsing RSVP Requests and Tracking Results
Once you created your first RSVP request, you will be returned back to RSVP request list. You will see the list of all RSVP requests created by your user account and their statuses:
You can see the total number of the following:
- Attending
- Maybe attending
- Not attending
If you want to send a campaign to one of these options data, just click "Export List" next to statistics. You will download a CSV file which can easily be imported to almost all applications including Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, etc.
Sending RSVP Request Emails
RSVP requests can be sent within any type of email in Oempro4 including campaigns, auto-responders, opt-in request emails, etc. For every RSVP request you create, a separate personalization tag will be created. These tags can be found under personalization list while creating or editing your email content.
As an example, we will be creating a birthday party announcement campaign and this campaign will include a link to RSVP.
- Create your campaign under "Campaigns" section
- In email builder, while editing your email content under "Content" tag, click to the place where you want to insert the RSVP link. Then click personalization icon on the toolbar of rich text editor and select the RSVP event tag you want to insert into:
Once RSVP link tag added into your content, it will look like this:
When this campaign is sent, RSVP tags inside the email will be replaced with special links for each recipient.
SUGGESTION: If you are going to send HTML email, instead of inserting RSVP link tag directly, consider adding it as a link into your email content. See below:
<a href="%RSVP:1%">Click here to set your status</a>
That's all. We hope you like our plug-in. For any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us or post into our forum.
