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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.
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.
Getting started with Unica Deliver
Deliver is tightly integrated with Unica Campaign. To access Deliver features, you must log into Campaign through a supported web browser. You can configure the system to display Deliver and Campaign in one of several languages other than English.
Access to Unica Deliver
To access messaging features that are provided by Deliver, you must be able to access Unica Campaign. To access Campaign, you must have a username and password combination that has been created for you in Unica Platform. You must also be authorized to access Campaign.

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.
  - Components and workflow in Deliver
    Conducting a messaging campaign with Deliver requires components that are installed locally with Unica Campaign and components that are hosted by Unica. The workflow for message design, transmission, and response tracking crosses between the two environments.
  - Getting started with Unica Deliver
    Deliver is tightly integrated with Unica Campaign. To access Deliver features, you must log into Campaign through a supported web browser. You can configure the system to display Deliver and Campaign in one of several languages other than English.
    - Browser requirements
      Unica Deliver supports Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, and Safari. For more details, see the Recommended Software Environments and Minimum System Requirements Guide.
    - Access to Unica Deliver
      To access messaging features that are provided by Deliver, you must be able to access Unica Campaign. To access Campaign, you must have a username and password combination that has been created for you in Unica Platform. You must also be authorized to access Campaign.
    - Access to Deliver in non-English locales
      The Deliver interface and product documentation display in non-English languages if you have configured default region settings in the Platform and Campaign to support the language that you want to use.
    - Access control through user roles and permissions
      Access to Deliver and Campaign mailing features and content depends on roles and permissions that are defined for the system user that you use to log in to the system. The combination of permissions that are associated with the Deliver and Campaign roles determines what you can view and the actions that you can perform.
    - Logging in to HCL Unica
      Use this procedure to log in to HCL Unica.
    - Setting your start page
      The start page is the page that displays when you log in to HCL Unica. The default start page is the default dashboard, but you can easily specify a different start page.
  - Messaging interfaces
    Deliver and Campaign provide various interfaces that you use to complete messaging tasks. Access to the interfaces, and to specific messaging features, is sometimes limited by your user role and access permissions.
  - Requesting changes to your hosted messaging account
    To use Deliver features, you must be able to access the messaging systems that Unica hosts. Access to the hosted messaging systems is provided through a hosted messaging account that Unica establishes for your organization. System administrators configure the connection and required system users.
- 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.
- 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

Access to Unica Deliver

To access messaging features that are provided by Deliver, you must be able to access Unica Campaign. To access Campaign, you must have a username and password combination that has been created for you in Unica Platform. You must also be authorized to access Campaign.

For more information about access to the system through Unica Campaign, see the Unica Campaign User's Guide for information about how to get started.

For information about how to configure users that can access the system, see the Unica Platform Administrator's Guide.

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