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Email Recs

Show product recommendations in your Mailerlite emails

Add product recommendations to your Mailerlite email campaigns. This guide walks you through creating email designs, setting up embeds, and inserting recommendations into your templates.

Before you start!

Make sure that you have made the initial integration on the webshop so that Clerk.io is synced with your product catalog and order history.

Create email design #

The first thing you have to do is create a Design for your emails.

You can create as many different designs as you want and each Design can be used across many different recommendations blocks.

  1. In my.clerk.io backend, head to the menu on the left hand side. Click Email -> Designs.
Email designs menu
  1. Click New Design.
New design button
  1. Select the design type, the type of content and Name the design. Then click Create Design.
Create design form
  1. Add to or modify your email design. Click Publish when you are happy with your design.

Create email embed #

Each type of Email recommendations should have its own Embed.

These Embeds control how many products to show, which logic to use, if any filters should apply, etc.

  1. Go to Email.
Email menu
  1. Click Embeds and Add Email Embed and give it a name.
Add email embed
  1. Give a Name to the email embed and Set the goals that you would like to accomplish with this Email embed, in order to choose the correct slider for your specific situation. After that, Create Embed.
Email embed settings
  1. The Product logic would be chosen depending on your goals, but you are always more than welcome to change it.
Product logic selection
  1. Select the Number of products you want to show and choose one of the designs you have created. Click Update Content to save your changes.
Update content settings

Get embed code #

  1. Under Insert into email, choose Mailerlite as the E-mail Platform.

  2. OPTIONAL: Depending on the Content Logic you have chosen, you might need to add extra data like keywords or a category ID.

  3. Click Copy Embed Code To Clipboard on the Content page.

Embed recommendations #

  1. In Mailerlite, go to Campaigns and choose the template you want to add recommendations to.

  2. Drag a Text block to the part of the template where you want to display recommendations.

  3. In the Text block settings, click on Source to see the HTML.

  4. Insert the embedcode here and click Save.

  5. Recommendations will now show up in your Template.

Congratulations! You now have Email Recommendations in your Mailerlite template!