Emarsys Direct Mail - powered by yours truly
Integrate optilyz Direct Mail into your customer journey and seamlessly automate the offline marketing channel.
STEP 1. Make the connection
To integrate optilyz we need the following:
- Request activation of “direct mail channel” via Emarsys support
- An active optilyz account. If you don’t already have one, please reach out to sales@optilyz.com.
Once the optilyz direct mail channel is activated for you, you will need to navigate to channel direct mail in Emarsys and log in once with your optilyz account. Behind the scene we establish a connection between your Emarsys account and your optilyz account such that subsequent access to the direct mail channel will no longer require manual logins.
STEP 2. Name your automation
Give your automation a meaningful name. This will help you keep track of it. (You can always change this later.)
Select the delivery country; this will help us perform more accurate address validation and determines which products and pricing apply.
STEP 3. Configure the triggers for your automation. You have two options:
(1) On a regular, time basis: Every day or once a week (you decide which day)
(2) After a minimum number of recipients have been collected
STEP 4. Map your data
Your automation data will be transferred to optilyz directly. Please help us map the Emarsys data field names to optilyz fields so that we know what to do with it when it arrives.
The following fields are available within optilyz.
All fields on the left should be mapped with the corresponding field in the dropdown menu (source Emarsys field editor). This mapping needs to be done once and will then be saved for future campaigns.
STEP 5. Add individualization fields
If you want to add further individualization fields, you can select them in the 'OTHER VARIABLE DATA' section. Choose, for example: Individualisation1 and assign it to a text individualisation (e.g. a date of birth, a personal salutation, an individual text module etc.).
5.1 Personalization service
In addition to standard data fields, you can further customize your mailings with data from 5 additional sources.
Data from an Emarsys contact database
Vouchers
External data using the API and external events.
The Relational Data Service
Predict
More information on using the personalization service can be found at here.
You can add personalization service data by selecting "Content personalization" in the field dropdown under OTHER VARIABLE DATA.
STEP 6. Address Validation
Tell us how to handle your addresses during the validation process.
You can choose to include recipients that generate suspicious- or missing-name warnings as well as those addresses that we were unable to definitively verify.
STEP 7. Voucher codes
Adding voucher codes to your mailings is crucial to tracking your campaign’s performance.
> How can I assign voucher codes?
STEP 8. Testing
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH
Before going into production mode, let’s test that we’ve configured everything correctly.
Create an automation on the optilyz platform called ‘Emarsys Integration Test’.
Our operations department knows to ignore any campaigns created by these automations.
1. Create a test segment from your available contacts.
Tip: Be sure to add a filter, otherwise you will not be able to use the segment. We suggest setting zip code as not empty.
2. Within the Automation Center, create a new program using the newly created segment as the entry point.
3. Attach the optilyz API node and select your Emarsys Integration Test automation.
4. Select the button [Program is In Design] on the upper right corner of the program builder. Press [Activate] and confirm the Launch by clicking [OK].
Within the Emarsys Automation Center, select to view the summary of your test program. The report indicates how many contacts should have been sent to the automation.
Navigate to automations and confirm that the correct number of recipients are enqueued for the test automation.
