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Groups can be created to segment recipients based on any type of criteria: sending activity, profile demographic, filters, etc. to create more targeted messaging. The Manage Groups page's functions has page has two main subtabs: Group and Modify Group Assignments.
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To add a new group, go to Recipients > Manage Groups, choose the Group tab at the top, scroll down and click the New Group button in the bottom right corner. See below:
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You will be asked to enter the group's name and some Admin notes (optional).
Test groups
When creating a group, you can flag it as "test group". By doing so, you can select it within the campaign setup wizard when choosing the "send to test group" option. Moreover, you can include or exclude test groups when searching for groups inside the "Manage Groups" page.
Rename, empty, delete a Group
To rename, empty, or delete a group, go to the Recipient > Manage groups, click on the Groups tab and click on the Action menu on the right.
- Click Rename group to rename the group
- Click Edit recipients to view and edit recipients currently assigned to the group (see the next section)
- Click Empty group to remove all recipients from the group. Those recipients' subscription preference is not changed. What's modified is simply their assignment to the selected group: they will no longer be assigned to that group.
- Click on Delete group to delete the group.
At the bottom of the page, there are additional actions that you can perform when one or more groups are selected using the check boxes on the left side of the page.
Select the groups that you wish to work with, and then:
- Click on Delete group to delete the selected groups: recipients are not affected, other than the fact that they will no longer be assigned to that group , since it is being deleted.
- Click on Delete recipients to completely remove from the system the recipients that are currently assigned to the group. Make sure you understand the difference between unsubscribing and deleting a recipient. Typically, you will want to unsubscribe, rather than delete a recipient.
- Click on Delete group and recipients to delete both the selected groups and all the recipients currently assigned to them. Once again, make sure you understand the difference between deleting and unsubscribing a recipient.
- Click on Empty group to remove all recipients from the selected groups. Those recipients' subscription preference is not changed. What's modified is simply their assignment to the selected groups: they will no longer be assigned to that group.
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To add or remove recipients to/from a group, go to Recipient > Manage groups, click on Modify Group assignments. You then click View groups and choose the group you want to add or remove the recipient to/from.
A list of recipients from that group will come up:
Then, do a Global search for the individual recipient you want to add to the group (search can be done by name, email or mobile.) Click on the Global Search icon at the upper right of the page.
Select the recipient and then click the green Add button:
The recipient will be moved to the group located right above.
To remove a recipient, select the recipient and click the green Remove button.
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- Locate recipients (e.g. Recipients > Channel > Email)
- Perform a search (or have the system randomly select recipients using the corresponding feature at the bottom of the page)
- Select a group
- Click on either Move or Copy.
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- one of these three options in Recipients management box, right below search results.
- "Add to", then choose a group
- "Remove from selected group(s) and add to", then choose a group
- "Remove from all groups and add to", then choose a group
- In all three cases, you can add a group "on the fly" by clicking the + icon near the groups' dropdown menu.
- For options b. and c., selecting a group in the dropdown menu is optional. If no group is selected ("Do not add to any group" is visible), recipients will only be removed from the selected groups.
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| You can also define group assignments when importing recipients. |
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