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Unica Deliver is a web-based, enterprise scale marketing message solution that you can use to conduct outbound bulk messaging and transactional messaging campaigns. Deliver integrates with Unica Campaign and with secure message composition, transmission, and tracking resources that are hosted by Unica.
Hosted landing pages for personalized messaging
Landing pages in Deliver are personalized web pages and online forms hosted by Unica that you can link to personalized marketing messages that you send with Deliver. You create and maintain landing pages using the same composition and personalization features that you use to create personalized messages. You can also configure hosted landing pages as online forms to solicit and accept responses from message recipients.
Online forms
You can configure a landing page as an online form to request and receive information from email recipients. The online form can contain various personalized elements to present different options to different people or groups.
Creating an online form
You can use the Message Editor to create a landing page as an online form. The resulting form can be linked to an email message and allows message recipients to enter information and make selections. The form can contain a combination of configurable inputs.

User Guide
Unica Deliver is a web-based, enterprise scale marketing message solution that you can use to conduct outbound bulk messaging and transactional messaging campaigns. Deliver integrates with Unica Campaign and with secure message composition, transmission, and tracking resources that are hosted by Unica.
- Unica Deliver overview
  Unica Deliver is a web-based, enterprise scale marketing message solution that you can use to conduct outbound bulk messaging and transactional messaging campaigns. Deliver integrates with Unica Campaign and with secure message composition, transmission, and tracking resources that are hosted by Unica.
- Selecting email recipients
  If you install and enable Unica Deliver within Campaign, then you can create a list that defines the recipients for a personalized messaging campaign. The list contains the recipient information that is used to address and personalize each message. You create a recipient list by configuring a Deliver process in a Campaign flowchart.
- Personalized messaging
  Unica Deliver provides message composition and personalization features that you can use to design graphically rich messages that deliver a marketing message with content that can automatically change to fit the characteristics of the message recipient.
- About configuring a mailing
  Creating and configuring a Deliver message creates the framework for organizing and running a marketing campaign.
- About testing Deliver mailings
  Testing a messaging allows you to identify and resolve any problems that might exist with your messaging list, verify how the message will appear to each recipient, and address issues that might interfere with efficient transmission and delivery of your communication. For best results, test each Deliver messaging before you use it to send a production messaging.
- Methods for sending personalized email
  To send personalized message to each member of your target audience, you conduct a Deliver messaging. Deliver provides several different ways to perform a messaging run .
- Hosted landing pages for personalized messaging
  Landing pages in Deliver are personalized web pages and online forms hosted by Unica that you can link to personalized marketing messages that you send with Deliver. You create and maintain landing pages using the same composition and personalization features that you use to create personalized messages. You can also configure hosted landing pages as online forms to solicit and accept responses from message recipients.
  - Creating a landing page
    A landing page in Deliver is a web page that Unica maintains in its hosted messaging environment. You can link various messages to the landing pages that you create. To create a landing page, you add an HTML template to a landing page communication in the Deliver Message Editor.
  - Personalization fields in landing pages
    The system assembles the page based on information provided through personalization fields included in the landing page. Each page view is unique because, through the use of personalization fields, the page displays information specific to the person viewing the page.
  - Linking email and landing pages
    You associate a landing page with an email by adding a link to the page in the body of the email. You configure the link using the Hyperlink widget in the Message Editor. The link configuration specifies the type of landing page to which you are linking.
  - Online forms
    You can configure a landing page as an online form to request and receive information from email recipients. The online form can contain various personalized elements to present different options to different people or groups.
    - Working with forms
    - About configuring Deliver landing pages as online forms
    - Creating an online form
      You can use the Message Editor to create a landing page as an online form. The resulting form can be linked to an email message and allows message recipients to enter information and make selections. The form can contain a combination of configurable inputs.
      - How to code forms for landing page templates
        You can configure landing page forms that collect data from your customers and store that data in the Deliver tracking tables.
      - Configuring inputs added to droppable areas
        Use this procedure when configuring inputs added to droppable areas defined in an online form template.
      - Specifying a submission form
        The data that you gather with a landing page form must be submitted to the system through a hyperlink in the data entry to another landing page.
    - Responses to online forms
      Deliver receives the responses from people that complete online forms. Deliver components installed in your local environment retrieve this data and store the information in the Deliver tracking tables that are part of the Campaign schema.
- The Deliver Message Editor
  Digital marketers construct email, landing pages, WhatsApp messages, and text messages in Unica Deliver in the Deliver Message Editor. Marketers without specific HTML editing experience can create valid, full-featured HTML email and landing pages with the editing and personalization tools in the Message Editor.
- Creating email and landing page templates
  Email and landing page templates are documents that you create outside of the Deliver Message Editor to define the layout of personalized email, hosted landing pages. The design of the template guides the design of the message. To create personalized email, marketers add content to the template by modifying the template or by using editing tools that are provided in the Message Editor.
- Images and Videos
  The Deliver Message Editor provide several ways to insert images and videos into personalized messages. You can add images and videos from the Content Library or add them from external sources when you send each message.
- Creating hyperlinks
  The Deliver Message Editor provides several ways to add links to personalized email messages, and landing pages that are hosted by Unica. Apply link attributes and inline styles to control how the links appear and how the target of the links display. Deliver tracks link clicks and stores the data in the Deliver system tables.
- Previewing email and landing pages
  Use the Preview feature in the Message Editor to see how a personalized message might appear to message recipients. Preview simulates how personalized parts of the Deliver document used to create the email, landing page, SMS, WhatsApp may change according to the personal characteristics of each recipient.
- Publishing email and landing pages
  Publishing the communication in the Deliver Message Editor makes the communication and the resources it contains available for use in a personalized message or landing page. Publishing a communication does not transmit the communication to message recipients or landing page visitors. However, to send a message through Deliver, you must first publish the message in the Message Editor.
- Working with personalization fields
  Personalization fields provide the means to add recipient-specific information from your marketing database to a SMS, email, WhatsApp, push notifications . Personalization fields are also used in rules that control how conditionalized content displays in each personalized message.
- Creating conditional content
  Creating conditional content allows you to vary the content that you display to your target audience according to characteristics defined in personalization fields. In Unica Deliver, you can define two types of conditional content. Simple conditional content, which uses personalization fields in personalization rules, and nested conditional content, which uses personalization fields in Deliver advanced scripting for email.
- Quick Builder
- Using advanced scripts in email
  Deliver provides a template-based scripting language for creating self-contained scripts that provide a way to personalize content in ways that you cannot easily duplicate in the Deliver Message Editor.
- Offers in personalized email
  You can add offers that you define in Unica Campaign to personalized email that you create and send through Unica Deliver. Including offers in your marketing email gives you an opportunity to deliver a timely and targeted call to action to your audience. The system collects the offer responses and makes the data available in the Campaign contact and response history for use in Campaign performance reports.
- Analyzing your mailing results
- Supported JDBC Data Types
  Personalization fields must map to marketing database fields that are configured for a data type that Deliver supports.
- Overview

Creating an online form

You can use the Message Editor to create a landing page as an online form. The resulting form can be linked to an email message and allows message recipients to enter information and make selections. The form can contain a combination of configurable inputs.

Before you begin

Before you begin, verify that all required content and an HTML template with the appropriate form elements is uploaded to the Content Library.

About this task

Configuring a landing page as an online form involves the following actions.

Create the online form.
Link the input form to a submission form.

Note: To complete these tasks, you must be familiar with HTML coding practices and understand how to use HTML form field tags.

Procedure

Create a landing page communication and select the template that contains the form.
Configure the form inputs. Repeat this step for each input defined in the form.
- For inputs added to zones in the template, see Configuring inputs added to droppable areas.
- For inputs defined explicitly in the template, you can review the input mappings contained in the template.
  To review the mapping, click Add/Edit form mappings . You can change the default name for Report Field Name in the Report Field Name column of the Form Mappings window. All other columns in this window are read-only. To make other changes, you must modify the HTML template file directly.
  Note: The Form Mappings window does not list inputs configured in zones with the Form Field widget.
Click OK and save the communication.

What to do next

After you create the form, you must link it to a submit page. For details, see Specifying a submission form.

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