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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.
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.
Personalized mobile app push notifications
You can use Deliver to conduct targeted and trackable campaigns to reach mobile users that download and install your mobile app on various mobile devices. Send personalized notifications to specific audiences that you define in Unica Campaign.
Sending push notifications
In Deliver, you can push notifications to a list of selected mobile app users immediately or schedule the push. You can schedule notification delivery to a list of mobile app users at a specified time or after a scheduled flowchart run finishes.
Enable transactional delivery
Push mailing can be enabled for transactional delivery.

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.
  - Personalized email messaging
    Creating and sending standard personalized email requires that you create a recipient list in Unica Campaign and design an email message in the Message Editor. However, personalized email that is sent as transactional email does not take information from a recipient list. For transactional email, personalization data must be included in the message request.
  - Personalized SMS messaging
  - Personalized mobile app push notifications
    You can use Deliver to conduct targeted and trackable campaigns to reach mobile users that download and install your mobile app on various mobile devices. Send personalized notifications to specific audiences that you define in Unica Campaign.
    - Mobile app push notifications overview
    - Prerequisites for sending personalized push notifications
      Sending push notifications to mobile device lock screens through Deliver requires that system administrators complete various preparations. The preparations include changes to your hosted messaging account, changes to the Deliver configuration, and changes to your mobile apps.
    - Workflow for sending push notifications with Deliver
      You must complete multiple steps to design and send personalized simple push notifications. The exact steps depend on the mobile operating system on which the app is running, the type of notification, and the method that you use to send the notification. Some of the required preparations must be performed by administrators with access to the Deliver configuration.
    - Push notification delivery methods
    - Requirements for selecting push notification recipients
      You can send push notifications either to a list of recipients.
    - Configuring push notifications
      To use Deliver to send notifications to mobile apps, you must configure a notification push. Create the push as part of the campaign that you use to select recipients of the push. To specify the content and behavior of the notifications, reference a push communication that is created in advance with the Quick Builder. To specify who receives the notifications, you can reference a list of recipients.
    - Sending push notifications
      In Deliver, you can push notifications to a list of selected mobile app users immediately or schedule the push. You can schedule notification delivery to a list of mobile app users at a specified time or after a scheduled flowchart run finishes.
      - Sending a push to a list of mobile app users now
        You can send notifications to a list of mobile app users as soon as you complete the push configuration. The push must reference a recipient list (OLT).
      - Scheduling a push for a specific time
        You can send notifications to a list of mobile app users at a specified time. Scheduling an app notification push can be useful when the message contains time-sensitive information.
      - Enable transactional delivery
        Push mailing can be enabled for transactional delivery.
    - Push Response codes
  - Personalized WhatsApp messaging
- 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

Enable transactional delivery

Push mailing can be enabled for transactional delivery.

About this task

Procedure

In a campaign, open the Push Mailing summary tab that you want to enable for transactional delivery.
Click Enable Transactional delivery.
A confirmation page displays.
Select each option to confirm that you completed the required preparations.

The option to Enable Transactional mailing is disabled until you mark each requirement as completed.
Click Enable Transactional Mailing. Once enabled, you can call it using the TMS client in a simlar way as in email and SMS. After the TMS utility is executed, the users would get notification through the same mailing.

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