RESPECTLY.AI

Hospitality: Set up Respectly for your venue, end to end

An enquiry comes in about a date, you hold it provisionally, and three weeks later nobody is sure whether it is booked. Set up the way this guide describes and the enquiry captures the date and the headcount, the contract and deposit terms go out for signature, and every milestone before the event is scheduled.

16 chapters · 185 steps · about 11.9 hours end to end

Chapter 0

Before you begin

Five minutes of reading that will save you hours later — what the product is for, how consent works, and what you need to have to hand.

  • What Respectly does

    Knowing which of the five building blocks you are in stops most early confusion.

    Respectly is one place to reach the people you do business with — and to prove you were allowed to. Everything in the app is one of five things:

    • Contacts — the people you talk to, the consent you hold for each of them, and the pipeline stage they are at.
    • Templates — reusable SMS, email and voice-call content with merge fields.
    • Forms and documents — forms collect information and consent; documents (called "Agreements" in the UI) get signed.
    • Sends — the wizard that puts a message, a form or a document in front of the right people, lawfully.
    • Automation — workflows and sequences that do the above without you.

    The Inbox is where every one of those lands afterwards, and the Dashboard is the summary. That is the whole product.

  • What to have ready

    Two of these gate features later, and chasing them mid-setup is the usual reason people stall.

    Business name, website and EIN (or local tax ID)Required for a dedicated US SMS numberCarriers demand it for 10DLC registration. Without it you can still send on the shared pool.
    Full billing addressRequired for 10DLC, and it sets your home jurisdictionYour billing country decides which consent rules apply to you by default.
    A logo and a brand colourOptional but do it earlyThey are applied to every form, email and signing page.
    A contact listCSV, Google Contacts or OutlookMax 10,000 contacts and 5 MB per CSV import.
    A payment cardRequired to finish setupThe trial is 14 days; the card is captured during the wizard.

    Watch out

    A dedicated US long-code number needs an EIN and a business — sole proprietors and personal accounts are hard-blocked from 10DLC by the carriers, not by us. If that is you, plan on the shared number pool or a toll-free number.

  • Who on your team does what

    Deciding roles now avoids a rebuild once several people are in the account.

    Access is controlled by roles, and each role is a set of permissions grouped by area — Contacts, Documents, Forms, Campaigns, Inbox, Templates, Analytics, Team, Roles, Settings, Billing, Webhooks and AI. System roles cannot be deleted or renamed, but you can edit what they are allowed to do, and you can create your own.

    Tip

    A useful default: one owner who holds Billing and Team, everyone who sends holds Campaigns and Contacts, and whoever owns compliance holds Settings. You can change all of this later in Settings > Roles & Permissions.

Chapter 1

Create your account

Sign up, verify your email, create the organization, and get past the plan gate.

  • Sign up

    Everything else hangs off the organization this creates.

    app.respectly.aiCreate an account
    1. 1

      Go to app.respectly.ai and click Create an account.

    2. 2

      Fill in your first name, work email, company name and a password.

      Or click Continue with Google, Microsoft or Apple and you will be asked for the company name and industry straight afterwards.

    3. 3

      Set the industry, even though it is marked optional.

      It picks your recommended starter kit, the sample copy in the send composer, and which version of this guide you are shown. Skipping it costs you all three.

    4. 4

      Submit the form.

  • Verify your email

    This is a hard gate — an unverified user is bounced out of every screen in the app.

    1. 1

      Open the verification email and click the link.

      This is a hard gate — an unverified user is bounced out of every screen in the app.

    2. 2

      Sign in.

    3. 3

      If it never arrives, click Resend verification email on the same screen and check your spam folder.

      It comes from Respectly, not from your own sending domain, which you have not set up yet — so your own domain rules will not help it through.

  • Create your organization

    The organization is the tenant — contacts, templates, consent and billing all belong to it.

    1. 1

      Confirm your email address, company name and industry.

    2. 2

      Click Create Organization.

    3. 3

      You land on a short "You're all set!" screen and then the setup wizard.

      The organization is the tenant — contacts, templates, consent and billing all belong to it.

    4. 4

      Bring colleagues in by invitation from inside this organization.

      One organization per business, not one per user. Anyone who signs up separately gets their own isolated account and will not see your contacts.

  • Understand the trial and the card gate

    Until a card is on file the app redirects you back to setup from every route — this surprises people.

    1. 1

      Expect to be redirected. A new signup starts a 14-day trial in a pending-card state.

      While in that state, opening any page sends you back to the plan step. This is the behaviour, not a bug.

    2. 2

      Add a card at the plan step.

    3. 3

      The whole app unlocks.

      Adding a card early does not cost you trial days — the 14 days run regardless.

Chapter 2

Finish guided setup

The eight-step wizard, what each step really does, and what the starter kit builds for you.

  • Walk the setup wizard

    It collects, in one pass, the things half a dozen features later depend on.

    1. 1

      Work through the steps in the left-hand list. Progress saves on every change.

      Closing the browser costs you nothing, and a banner on the dashboard brings you back.

    2. 2

      Welcome — orientation only, and not skippable.

    3. 3

      Business Details — personal details plus an Individual/Business selector.

      Choose Business and fill in the org name, industry, website, EIN and billing address. The EIN is what a dedicated US number later depends on.

    4. 4

      Branding — logo, brand colour and logo position, with a live preview of your intake form.

    5. 5

      Your Goals — pick Send Campaigns, Collect Documents & eSignatures, or Explore Everything.

      At least one is required, and it decides which later steps you are shown.

    6. 6

      Import Contacts — CSV with column mapping, or Google / Outlook.

    7. 7

      Communications — your email sender, and whether you want a shared or dedicated phone number.

    8. 8

      Choose a Plan — the card gate. Not skippable for new signups.

    9. 9

      What's Next — a short feature tour.

    Tip

    Every step except Welcome and Choose a Plan has its own skip link. Skipping is safe — each one has a permanent home in Settings, and this guide covers all of them.

  • Pick your industry starter kit

    This is the single highest-leverage click in setup: it builds a working configuration instead of leaving you with an empty account.

    SidebarUse Cases

    A starter kit is a curated set of tags, a pipeline with named stages, forms, signable documents, SMS and email templates, and live workflows — all built for one industry.

    1. 1

      In the setup wizard, look for the recommended kit.

      It is picked from the industry you chose at signup.

    2. 2

      If no kit is recommended for your industry, browse the gallery instead.

      There is no kit tailored to your industry yet, so the wizard leads with the gallery. That is expected, not an error.

    3. 3

      Apply whichever of the ten kits is structurally closest to how you work.

      Nothing is locked to a vertical and everything a kit creates is editable.

    4. 4

      Or skip it and build as you go through this guide.

      The kit is a head start, not a prerequisite.

    Tip

    If you later set a more specific industry in Settings, Profile, both the recommended kit and this guide follow it.

    Browse all starter kits

    For your industry the recommended kit is "Event Planning" — Turn date inquiries into signed events — check availability, send proposals, and lock the deposit on autopilot. Applying it creates 4 tags, the Event Pipeline (4 stages), 1 form, 1 document, 2 message templates and 2 ready-to-run workflows.

    What this looks like for you

    A couple fills out your inquiry form asking if their date is open. Respectly tags them, places a soft hold on the calendar, drops them into your Event Pipeline, and texts back to schedule a tasting — then has the Event Services Contract ready to e-sign the moment the proposal is approved.

    Tip

    Applying a kit is safe to re-run. Tags and pipelines are matched by name, so nothing is duplicated, and anything you have already built is left alone.

  • Know what the kit created — and change it

    A kit is a starting point, not a black box; everything it makes is ordinary, editable content.

    SidebarUse Cases
    1. 1

      Open the Use Cases page. Every kit is shown as a full walkthrough.

      The tags, the pipeline stages and their exit criteria, each form and document with the AI prompt that generates it, the message templates, and the workflows.

    2. 2

      Read the kit you applied — especially the workflows.

      They were created AND activated. They are already running.

    3. 3

      Click Apply this kit to provision the whole set for real.

    4. 4

      Edit anything it made. It is ordinary content with no special status.

    Tip

    Re-applying is safe. Tags and pipelines are matched by name, so nothing is duplicated, and anything you have edited is left alone.

    Open Use Cases
  • Resume setup later

    Knowing where the unfinished steps live means an interrupted setup never becomes an abandoned one.

    1. 1

      Open the dashboard. A resume banner lists the setup steps you have left.

      That is where an interrupted setup lives — it is not lost and it is not hidden in a menu.

    2. 2

      Click through the banner to pick up where you stopped.

    3. 3

      Work the Getting Started widget alongside it.

      It tracks the practical first tasks: add a contact, create an SMS template, create an email template, create a document, build a form, invite your team.

Chapter 3

Business profile and branding

The details that unlock SMS registration, set your compliance jurisdiction, and brand every page a customer sees.

  • Complete your business details

    These exact fields are what a carrier checks before it will let you send SMS from your own number.

    SidebarSettingsProfile
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Profile.

    2. 2

      Check the account is set to Business, not Individual. Click Switch to Business if it is not.

      Only a Business profile exposes the company fields SMS registration depends on.

    3. 3

      Fill in Company Name — your registered legal name.

      It must match the EIN registration, not a trading name.

    4. 4

      Set the Industry.

    5. 5

      Fill in Business ID / EIN and Website.

    6. 6

      Fill in the full billing address — country, state or province, street, city, postal code.

      The country sets your home compliance jurisdiction as well as your billing currency.

    7. 7

      Press the Save Changes button on each card you filled in.

      Every card on this page saves separately. Filling three cards and pressing one button saves one card.

    Company NameYour registered legal nameMust match the EIN registration, not a trading name.
    IndustryYour verticalDrives the recommended kit and this guide.
    Business ID / EINYour tax IDRequired for 10DLC.
    Websitehttps://...Required for 10DLC and for toll-free verification.
    Billing addressCountry, state/province, street, city, postal codeRequired for 10DLC and it sets your home compliance jurisdiction.

    Watch out

    Leave any of these blank and the SMS brand registration will fail later with "Tenant business identity incomplete". It is much less painful to fill them in now.

  • Set your logo and brand colour

    These are applied automatically to every form, email header and signing page your customers see.

    SidebarSettingsProfile
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Profile.

    2. 2

      Upload a logo.

      It is auto-cropped, and the variants used across hosted forms, emails and signature pages are generated for you.

    3. 3

      Pick a brand colour from the six presets, or enter a custom hex.

    4. 4

      Press Save Changes on that card.

    5. 5

      Check a public form afterwards.

      The banner should carry your logo and company name. If it shows the Respectly wordmark, something above did not save.

    Tip

    These are applied automatically to every form, email header and signing page your customers see. Skipping this puts the Respectly wordmark on your contracts, which is not the impression you want.

  • Secure your login

    This account holds other people's personal data and their consent record. Treat it accordingly.

    SidebarSettingsSecurity
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Security.

    2. 2

      Read the Login Methods section — Password, Google, Microsoft and Apple.

      Each row shows either Connect, or the linked email address and an Unlink button.

    3. 3

      Click Connect on a provider to add a second way in, or Unlink to remove one.

    4. 4

      Set or change your password from the Password row.

    5. 5

      Keep at least two ways in if you can.

      You cannot unlink your last remaining method — the app blocks it rather than locking you out.

    Tip

    This account holds other people's personal data and their consent record. A second sign-in method is worth the two minutes.

  • Change your password

    A password you share, reuse or half-remember is the weakest point in an account that holds other people's consent records.

    SidebarSettingsSecurityLogin MethodsChange password
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Security.

    2. 2

      Find the Password row in Login Methods and click Change password.

      It reads Set password instead if you signed up with Google, Microsoft or Apple and have never had one. Either opens the same dialog.

    3. 3

      Enter your Current password.

      Not asked for when you are setting a first password.

    4. 4

      Enter the New password. A strength meter scores it as you type.

      At least 8 characters with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a special character.

    5. 5

      Enter it again under Confirm password and save.

      A mismatch is rejected before anything is saved.

    Current passwordThe password you sign in with todayNot asked for when you are setting a first password.
    New passwordThe one you wantA strength meter scores it as you type.
    Confirm passwordThe same againA mismatch is rejected before anything is saved.

    Watch out

    Five failed sign-in attempts lock the account for 15 minutes. If you are locked out, wait it out or use the forgot-password link rather than guessing again.

    Open Security
  • Connect or unlink Google, Microsoft and Apple sign-in

    Linking a provider gives you a second way in, which matters on the day you cannot remember your password.

    SidebarSettingsSecurityLogin Methods
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Security.

    2. 2

      Read Login Methods — Password, Google, Microsoft and Apple.

      Each provider row shows either Connect, or the linked email address and an Unlink button.

    3. 3

      Click Connect on the provider you want to add.

      You go to the provider's consent screen and come back with the account linked.

    4. 4

      Click Unlink to remove one — but set a password first if it is your only method.

      The app blocks unlinking your last remaining method rather than locking you out.

    Tip

    Your email address is fixed on the Profile page and cannot be edited there. Linking a provider adds a way to sign in; it does not change which address the account belongs to.

  • Switch between an Individual and a Business profile

    Only a Business profile exposes the company fields that SMS registration and your compliance jurisdiction depend on.

    SidebarSettingsProfile
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Profile.

    2. 2

      Find the card below Personal Information carrying Switch to Business or Switch to Individual.

      Which one you see depends on where you are now.

    3. 3

      Click Switch to Business.

      Switching is not destructive — it changes which fields the page asks you for, nothing else.

    4. 4

      Fill in the fields that appear: Company Name, Industry, Business ID / EIN, Logo, Website and a billing address.

      An Individual profile has none of these — only First Name, Last Name, the read-only Email Address, Phone Number and Photo.

    5. 5

      Press Save Changes on each card separately.

      Fill a card in, press its own button, then move to the next one.

    Watch out

    Stay on Individual and there is nowhere to enter an EIN or a website, so a dedicated local number can never be registered for you. Switch to Business before you request one.

  • Add your billing address

    The country you put here decides your home compliance jurisdiction and the currency you are billed in.

    SidebarSettingsProfileSwitch to Business
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Profile, and make sure you are on a Business profile.

    2. 2

      Find the billing address on the Business card, alongside Company Name and Business ID / EIN.

    3. 3

      Set the Country first.

      The state and postal-code labels change to match it — a Canadian address asks for a province and a postal code rather than a state and a ZIP.

    4. 4

      Fill in the state or province, street, city and postal code.

      Carriers check this against your tax registration for 10DLC brand registration.

    5. 5

      Press Save Changes on that card.

    CountryWhere the business is registeredSets your home jurisdiction and your billing currency.
    State / provinceThe regional label follows the countryNeeded for 10DLC brand registration.
    Street, city, postal codeThe registered addressCarriers check this against your tax registration.

    Compliance

    Settings, Compliance shows a Contact Creation Defaults matrix with a row labelled "Your billing country". That row is derived from this field — get the country wrong and every new contact is evaluated against the wrong rulebook.

    Watch out

    Canada is billed in CAD and everywhere else in USD. Once a paid subscription exists the currency is fixed and cannot be changed, so set the country before you subscribe.

Chapter 4

Your sending identity

Which email address and which phone number your messages come from — and what it takes to use your own.

  • Send email from your own address

    Mail from your own domain gets opened and gets delivered; mail from a shared platform address does neither as well.

    SidebarSettingsEmail Configuration
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Email Configuration.

    2. 2

      Turn on Custom Email Sending.

    3. 3

      Choose a provider: Gmail or Microsoft for one-click OAuth, Apple, or Custom SMTP.

      Custom SMTP asks for host, port, username, password and the From address.

    4. 4

      Complete the connection — the consent screen for OAuth, or the credentials for SMTP.

    5. 5

      Click Send Test Email BEFORE you save.

      It uses the configuration on screen, so you find out it is wrong now rather than after a customer does.

    6. 6

      Press Save Changes.

    Watch out

    If you enable custom sending but do not finish connecting the provider, email keeps going out from the default Respectly address. The page warns you — read the warning.

  • Choose what your address is used for

    You may want contracts to come from you but bulk campaigns to come from elsewhere. This is where you decide.

    SidebarSettingsEmail Configuration
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Email Configuration.

    2. 2

      Set the use-case chips — Documents, Forms, Campaigns.

      They control which kinds of email use your custom sender. You may want contracts to come from you but bulk campaigns to come from elsewhere.

    3. 3

      Press Save Changes.

    Compliance

    Authentication, billing and support email always comes from Respectly regardless of what you set here. Those are not yours to re-route.

  • Choose a phone number

    Your options genuinely differ in cost, lead time and what you must prove, so pick deliberately.

    1. 1

      Reach this at the Communications step of the setup wizard.

      There is no phone-numbers page in Settings — if you need one later, raise a ticket from Support.

    2. 2

      Start on the shared Respectly pool unless you have a reason not to.

      Free, included on all plans, works immediately, no registration.

    3. 3

      For a dedicated toll-free number, have your website and billing address ready.

      Toll-Free Verification takes roughly 2 to 4 weeks. No EIN required.

    4. 4

      For a dedicated local (10DLC) number, have your EIN, business type, website and full billing address ready.

      Brand registration typically takes 1 to 7 business days, and the campaign takes longer. Sole proprietors are blocked by the carriers, not by us.

    5. 5

      Submit the request. The wizard raises a support ticket.

      A dedicated number is requested, not bought self-serve — the Respectly team provisions and registers it.

    Shared Respectly poolFree, included on all plans, works immediatelyNo registration. The right default — start here and upgrade later.
    Dedicated toll-freeToll-Free Verification, roughly 2-4 weeksNeeds your website and billing address. No EIN required.
    Dedicated local (10DLC)Brand then campaign registration, 1-7 business days for the brandNeeds EIN, business type, website and full billing address. Sole proprietors are blocked by the carriers.
  • Connect a Gmail or Microsoft account for sending

    It is the shortest route to sending from your own address — a consent screen instead of a set of SMTP credentials.

    SidebarSettingsEmail ConfigurationCustom Email Sending
    1. 1

      Turn on the Custom Email Sending toggle.

    2. 2

      Pick which use cases it applies to with the Documents, Forms and Campaigns chips.

    3. 3

      Choose Gmail or Microsoft in the provider picker.

    4. 4

      Click Connect.

      You are sent to the provider, you consent to send mail on your behalf, and you are returned to the page with the connected account shown.

    5. 5

      Press Save Changes.

    Before you start

    On a Microsoft work or school account the tenant administrator may have to approve the permission first. The flow redirects through the admin consent screen and back on its own — if you are not an administrator, someone who is will have to complete that step.

    Watch out

    If Custom Email Sending is on but the provider is not fully connected, email keeps going out from the default Respectly address. The page warns you when that is the case.

    Tip

    A connection can expire. If a send or a test fails asking you to reconnect, press Connect again — nothing else needs redoing.

    Open Email Configuration
  • Set up custom SMTP

    It is the route for Apple Mail and for any mailbox that is not Gmail or Microsoft.

    SidebarSettingsEmail ConfigurationCustom SMTP
    1. 1

      Turn on Custom Email Sending.

    2. 2

      Pick Apple or Custom SMTP in the provider picker. The credential panel appears.

      This is the route for Apple Mail and for any mailbox that is not Gmail or Microsoft.

    3. 3

      Enter the Host and Port from your mail provider's documentation.

    4. 4

      Enter the Username — usually the full mailbox address — and the Password.

      Use an app password where your provider offers one. The page shows app-password guidance for the host you entered, because most providers will not accept your normal login password from an application.

    5. 5

      Set the From email and name to what the recipient should see.

      Use an address on a domain you control.

    6. 6

      Click Send Test Email, then Save Changes.

    HostYour provider's SMTP serverFrom your mail provider's documentation.
    PortThe submission port your provider specifies
    UsernameUsually the full mailbox address
    PasswordAn app password where your provider offers oneStored encrypted and never shown back to you.
    From email and nameWhat the recipient sees in their inboxUse an address on a domain you control.

    Tip

    When you come back to edit the page the password field is blank — that is the saved password being withheld, not a lost one. Leave it blank and the existing password is kept; type a new one only when you actually want to replace it.

    Compliance

    Authentication, billing and support email always comes from Respectly regardless of what you configure here. Replies to your sends arrive in the Respectly inbox, not in the connected mailbox.

  • Send a test email

    It is the only way to find out your credentials are wrong before a customer does.

    SidebarSettingsEmail ConfigurationSend Test Email
    1. 1

      Type a recipient address into the test field.

      Send it to a mailbox on a different provider. Mail to yourself can be delivered when mail to the outside world is not.

    2. 2

      Click Send Test Email — before you save.

      It uses the configuration currently on screen, so you can test before saving rather than saving something broken and finding out later.

    3. 3

      Look for a message with the subject "Respectly — Test Email".

      Nothing arrives: check the host, port and username, and whether your provider requires an app password.

    4. 4

      If it arrives from the wrong address, correct the From email field.

    5. 5

      If you are asked to reconnect, the OAuth connection has expired — press Connect again.

Chapter 5

Compliance foundations

What the platform enforces on your behalf, the one switch you control, and where to look when a send is blocked or held.

  • Check your contact-creation defaults

    It explains why a brand-new contact already has some consent and, more importantly, why it does not have marketing consent.

    SidebarSettingsCompliance
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Compliance.

    2. 2

      Read the Contact Creation Defaults card — an Allow/Block matrix for your billing country and for the global floor.

      Read-only. This is what happens automatically when a contact is created.

    3. 3

      Note which cells are auto-granted. The engine starts wide open and only restricts where a jurisdiction rule says so.

      That is why a brand-new contact already has some consent, with a trail recorded for each cell.

    4. 4

      Note which cells are blocked — marketing, almost certainly.

      You cannot override this. It has to be captured from the contact instead.

    5. 5

      Check the row labelled "Your billing country" is the country you expect.

      It comes from your billing address on Settings, Profile. Wrong country, wrong rulebook, every new contact.

    Compliance

    Most US states BLOCK the automatic granting of marketing consent. That is deliberate. Marketing consent has to be captured from the contact — through a form they submit, or on the consent screen with evidence attached.

  • Decide on double opt-in

    This is the one compliance setting you control, and it is a real trade-off.

    SidebarSettingsCompliance
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Compliance.

    2. 2

      Decide the trade-off before you touch the toggle.

      On: a contact who opts in on a form is sent a confirmation link and stays Pending until they click it — slower, stronger. Off: consent is recorded immediately — faster, weaker.

    3. 3

      Set the toggle.

    4. 4

      If you see a "Managed by Respectly" banner instead of a toggle, stop — the platform sets this for you.

      Support can change it.

    Tip

    This is the one compliance setting you control. Everything else on this page is derived from your jurisdiction.

  • Read your jurisdiction rulebook

    Before you argue with a blocked send, read the rule that blocked it.

    SidebarSettingsPolicies
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Policies.

    2. 2

      Pick a jurisdiction and a channel.

    3. 3

      Read what it takes to send compliantly there, in plain language.

      Opt-in requirements, consent checks, permitted sending times, and opt-out handling.

    4. 4

      Read this BEFORE arguing with a blocked send.

      Rules inherit global, then country, then state, with the most specific one winning — so the rule that blocked you may not be the one you were looking at.

  • Understand calling hours and deferral

    A send that seems to have vanished has usually just been held until the recipient's local window opens.

    1. 1

      Do not look for a quiet-hours setting. There is not one.

      Calling hours are platform rules evaluated per recipient against their local time.

    2. 2

      When a send seems to have vanished, check the review step's sending groups.

      An out-of-hours send is deferred, not dropped.

    3. 3

      Check the Inbox: the campaign reads Scheduled with a live countdown.

      It goes on its own when the window opens. There is nothing to do.

    4. 4

      Complete country and state on your contacts to stop the fail-closed cases.

      A contact with no usable timezone is held rather than sent at a possibly illegal hour.

  • Use the decisions log

    It is the answer to "why did this not send?", and it is exportable when someone asks you to prove it.

    SidebarSettingsPoliciesView Decisions
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Policies, then View Decisions.

    2. 2

      Find the evaluation you are asking about and read its outcome — Allow, Conditional or Block.

      "Conditional" only appears here. The Inbox shows the same outcomes as Blocked or Needs Review.

    3. 3

      Expand the record for the routing path, the individual checks, and the suggested remediation.

      The remediation line is the useful one — it says what would have to change.

    4. 4

      Filter by channel, purpose, decision, date, country, state, rule id or recipient.

    5. 5

      Click Export CSV when someone needs it in writing.

  • Know how opt-outs are handled

    Opt-outs are sticky and channel-wide, and reinstating one deliberately takes real effort.

    1. 1

      Treat all four routes as identical, because the engine does.

      STOP on SMS, an email unsubscribe, a cleared box on a form, and an admin revoke all opt the contact out across that whole channel and record it.

    2. 2

      Expect it to be channel-wide, not cell-wide.

      An opt-out on SMS marketing takes SMS informational with it.

    3. 3

      To reinstate, capture a written express opt-in with an uploaded document.

      A checkbox cannot overturn a revocation — by design.

    4. 4

      Leave marketing email alone: an unsubscribe link and your business mailing address are added automatically.

      Adding your own is how you end up with two.

  • Run a compliance test and read the decision

    You can find out whether a send would be allowed without sending anything to anyone.

    SidebarSettingsPoliciesRun a compliance test
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Policies.

    2. 2

      Click Run a compliance test, alongside View Decisions.

      It runs the same engine a real send runs, so the answer you get is the answer you would have got — without sending anything to anyone.

    3. 3

      Read the outcome: Allow, Conditional or Block.

      Conditional does not mean blocked. It means the send may go ahead with a condition attached — commonly a calling-hours window, so the message is held until the recipient's local window opens rather than dropped.

    4. 4

      Expand the record for the detail.

      The routing path it took through global, country and state rules, each individual check it evaluated, the consent auto-captured at contact creation, and the remediation that would clear a failure.

    5. 5

      Reopen it later from Settings, Policies, Decisions rather than re-running it.

      A test is written to the decisions log like any other evaluation.

    Open Policies
  • Export the decisions log to CSV

    When a regulator, a carrier or a client asks you to prove what you sent and why, this is the file.

    SidebarSettingsPoliciesView DecisionsExport CSV
    1. 1

      Open Settings, Policies, View Decisions.

      The page opens with a stats bar — Total Evaluations, Allow, Conditional and Block — above the log itself.

    2. 2

      Set the Date Range to the period in question.

      Narrow first, then export, so the file contains the evidence you were asked for and nothing else.

    3. 3

      Filter by Channel, Purpose and Decision to isolate what you are proving.

    4. 4

      Narrow further by Country, State, Rule ID or Source, or search for a single recipient.

    5. 5

      Click Export CSV.

    Tip

    If the table reads "No decisions match your filters" the filters are too tight, not the log empty. "No decisions yet" is the genuinely empty state.

    Open Policy Decisions

Chapter 6

Contacts

Get your people in, organise them, and capture consent you can actually rely on.

  • The four ways contacts get in

    Picking the right door for each source saves a cleanup later.

    • CSV upload — bulk, with column mapping and duplicate handling.
    • Google or Outlook — OAuth import straight from your address book.
    • Manually — one at a time, from Add Contact.
    • Your intake form — a public link or QR code the contact fills in themselves, which is the only door that also captures marketing consent properly.
  • Import a CSV

    It is the fastest way to a useful account, and the options page matters more than it looks.

    SidebarContactsImport
    1. 1

      Click Import in the Contacts page header.

      On an account with no contacts yet the empty state offers Import CSV instead. On mobile, tap the round + button, then Import CSV.

    2. 2

      Leave the source tile on CSV File — it is selected already.

      Google and Outlook are the other two tiles; see Import from Google or Outlook.

    3. 3

      Under "Download the CSV template", click Download Template.

      Saves contacts-import-template.csv. Keep the header row exactly as it comes — matching it is what lets the wizard skip the mapping step entirely.

    4. 4

      Fill in your contacts, then drag the file onto Drag & drop CSV file — or click the box to browse.

      CSV only, up to 5 MB, and a maximum of 10,000 contacts per import.

    5. 5

      Nothing to click here: the file parses and the wizard moves on by itself.

      Straight to Import Options when every column auto-maps, otherwise to Map Columns.

    6. 6

      Only if Map Columns appears: set each Your Column to the right Our Field, leave anything you do not want on Skip this column, then click Continue.

      First Name plus either Email or Phone are required, as is every starred custom field. Continue stays blocked until they are mapped.

    7. 7

      On Import Options, choose one option under "When duplicate found (same email or phone):".

      The three choices are compared in the table below.

    8. 8

      Add a tag under "Apply tags to all imported contacts:".

      Optional, and worth doing — tag by source and you can still find this batch in a month.

    9. 9

      Click Import {N} Contacts — the button carries the row count, e.g. Import 1,250 Contacts.

    10. 10

      Wait on Importing Contacts. This step cannot be cancelled or closed.

      It reads "Processing X of Y..." with a live estimate of the time left.

    11. 11

      On Import Complete, check the created / updated / skipped / failed counts, then click View Contacts.

    Skip duplicate rowsThe default, and the safe oneLeaves existing contacts untouched.
    Update existing contactsUse when the CSV is more current than the app
    Create duplicates anywayReally does create a second recordIncluding for repeated rows inside the same file.

    Compliance

    Importing is not consent. Informational consent is auto-applied only where your jurisdiction rule expressly allows it, marketing consent is never imported, and smsOptIn / emailOptIn columns in your CSV are ignored on purpose.

    Tip

    Define your custom fields before a large import, not after. A required custom field with no mapped column forces the Map Columns step and blocks Continue with "Please map a column for: {field}".

    Open the import wizard
  • Import from Google or Outlook

    It skips the export/reformat step entirely and keeps the fields clean.

    SidebarContactsImport
    1. 1

      Click Import in the Contacts page header.

    2. 2

      Click the Google or the Outlook tile.

    3. 3

      Click Connect with Google (or Connect with Outlook) and finish the sign-in in the popup.

      The panel says what is read before you agree: only contact names, emails and phone numbers.

    4. 4

      On Select Contacts, tick the people you want.

      Use Select all / Deselect all, or the "Search by name, email, phone..." box to narrow the list first. The heading tracks it: "Select contacts (X of Y selected)".

    5. 5

      Click Continue.

    6. 6

      On Import Options, pick your duplicate handling and any tags — the same choices as a CSV import.

    7. 7

      Click Import {N} Contacts, wait for Importing Contacts, then click View Contacts.

    Tip

    There is no mapping step on this route — the fields come across already named, which is the whole reason to prefer it over exporting to a spreadsheet first.

    Compliance

    The consent rules are identical to a CSV import: informational consent only where the jurisdiction rule allows it, and never marketing.

    Import from GoogleImport from Outlook
  • Define your custom fields

    Do this before importing — custom fields are what make your messages specific instead of generic.

    SidebarContactsCustom Fields

    Custom fields are the data unique to your business — a policy number, a renewal date, a property address, a membership tier. Each one becomes a merge variable available in every template, form and document.

    1. 1

      Click Custom Fields in the Contacts page header to open the Manage Custom Fields drawer.

    2. 2

      Click Add Field.

      If the name you type matches a field you deleted before, an amber notice tells you that creating it will restore that field along with the values already saved on your contacts.

    3. 3

      Name the field, pick its type, and save it.

    4. 4

      Drag the rows to reorder them.

      The order here is the order the fields appear on the contact form and card.

    5. 5

      To remove one, use its delete action and confirm Delete Field.

      The dialog names the field and its key. The field leaves contact forms and cards, but values already saved on contacts stay stored.

    6. 6

      To bring one back, scroll to Deleted fields at the bottom of the drawer and click Restore.

      It returns to the bottom of the active list with its saved values intact — unless another active field has since taken its display name, which the server refuses with a message.

    Watch out

    Deleting a custom field does not clean up the templates that use it. Those merge tags turn into red warning chips and would send as blank text — the app warns you before letting the send through.

    Tip

    Do this before your first import. A required custom field with no CSV column to map forces the mapping step and blocks the import until you give it one.

  • Set up tags

    Tags are how you choose who receives what, so a small deliberate set beats a sprawling one.

    SidebarContactstag filterManage Tags

    Tags are free-form labels. Filter the contact list by them, apply them in bulk, target a send with them, and add or remove them automatically from a workflow.

    1. 1

      Open the tag-filter dropdown above the contact list and click Manage Tags.

    2. 2

      Give the tag a Tag Name and a Color, then save it.

      The drawer previews the tag as you type, so you can see it the way it will look on a contact card.

    3. 3

      To tag people in bulk, switch the list to Table view, tick the rows you want, and use Add Tag in the toolbar that appears.

      Selection only exists in Table view — Grid, Kanban and the mobile card list have no checkboxes, so every bulk action is desktop-table-only.

    4. 4

      Use Remove Tag in the same toolbar to take one off the selected contacts.

    5. 5

      To use a tag as a filter, pick it in the tag-filter dropdown; the list narrows immediately.

    Tip

    A small deliberate set beats a sprawling one. Tags are how you choose who receives what, so every tag you cannot define in a sentence is a send you will get wrong later.

    Tags in the Event Planning kit

    New Inquiry · Date Hold · VIP · Booked

    Use these as your starting vocabulary and add your own — tags are how you segment who gets what.

  • Build your pipeline

    A pipeline turns a contact list into a process you can see, and stages can trigger automation.

    SidebarContactspipeline selectorManage Pipelines

    A pipeline is an ordered set of stages a contact moves through. Moving a contact into a stage is itself a workflow trigger, which is what makes a pipeline more than a label.

    1. 1

      Open the pipeline selector above the contact list and choose Manage Pipelines.

    2. 2

      Create the pipeline, then add its stages in the order a contact actually moves through them.

    3. 3

      Close the drawer and pick your new pipeline in the selector.

    4. 4

      Switch the view switcher from Table to Kanban.

      The switcher sits above the list and toggles Table / Grid / Kanban.

    5. 5

      Drag a contact card between stage columns to move them.

    6. 6

      To move several at once, switch back to Table, tick the rows, and use the Add to Pipeline modal from the toolbar — pick the Pipeline and Stage, then Add to {Pipeline}.

    Tip

    Build the stages before the automation. A workflow that triggers on "moved to stage" needs the stage to exist first, and renaming a stage afterwards means revisiting every workflow that names it.

    The Event Planning kit builds the "Event Pipeline" with these stages, in order:

    1. Availability Check — move on once: Date confirmed; Soft-hold placed
    2. Proposal Sent — move on once: Proposal sent; Estimated headcount provided
    3. Tasting / Tour — move on once: Menu finalized; Floor plan approved
    4. Contract Signed — move on once: Contract signed; Deposit cleared

    Tip

    Those exit criteria are the useful part. Agreeing what "done" means for each stage is what stops a pipeline turning into a list of everyone you have ever met.

  • Publish your intake form

    A contact filling in their own preferences is the strongest consent evidence you can get, and the cheapest to collect.

    SidebarContactsIntake Form

    Every account gets a built-in intake form, public at /collect/{slug}. A contact filling in their own preferences is the strongest consent evidence you can get, and the cheapest to collect.

    1. 1

      Click Intake Form in the Contacts page header.

    2. 2

      In the editor, choose which contact fields appear and which custom fields to include.

      Ask for the least you need. Every extra field costs you completions.

    3. 3

      Set the branding so the page looks like you, not like a generic form.

    4. 4

      Turn on the consent options you actually want — SMS, email and voice, each split into informational and marketing.

      The public page groups these into two cards, Service Notifications and Marketing Messages, so the contact chooses each deliberately.

    5. 5

      Save, then share the form as a link or a QR code.

    6. 6

      To send it to contacts you already have, use Send intake link on a contact consent screen, or tick rows in Table view and click Send Intake Form.

      The bulk dialog previews the outcome before you commit — "18 of 20 will be sent", plus the reason for each skip.

    Compliance

    Submitting the form replaces the contact's previous preferences rather than adding to them — anything left unchecked is turned off. That is what makes it a lawful opt-out route as well as an opt-in one, and the page says so to the contact.

    Open intake forms
  • Bulk actions, intake links and export

    The fastest way to fix consent across an imported list, and the export you will want at audit time.

    SidebarContactsTableselect rows
    1. 1

      Switch the contact list to Table view.

      Selection exists only here — Grid, Kanban and the mobile card list have no checkboxes.

    2. 2

      Filter the list to the set you want FIRST, then tick rows.

      Changing any filter clears the selection.

    3. 3

      Tick rows, or use the header checkbox to take the current page of 20.

      When the whole page is checked and more contacts match, a banner offers "Select all {N} contacts matching this filter" — capped at 500, the same ceiling the bulk endpoints enforce.

    4. 4

      Pick an action from the bulk bar: Send Message, Send Document, Send Intake Form, Add Tag, Remove Tag, Update Consent, Export or Delete.

    5. 5

      For an imported list, reach for Send Intake Form.

      It is the practical way to collect real marketing consent from people whose consent you only assumed.

    6. 6

      For Export, check the scope the dialog opened on before confirming.

      It picks the narrowest available — your selection, then your filter, then everything — so it never silently widens.

  • Add one contact by hand

    It is the quickest way to get a single person into the app, and the form decides what you are allowed to send them.

    SidebarContactsAdd Contact
    1. 1

      Click Add Contact in the Contacts page header.

      On mobile the same modal opens from the floating add button instead.

    2. 2

      Fill in Identity — First Name, and at least one of Phone or Email.

      First Name is the only starred field, but the line "Add at least one — phone or email." under the row turns red if you leave both blank.

    3. 3

      Add Tags while you are here.

      Tagging on the way in is the difference between finding this contact by source later and not.

    4. 4

      Fill in Address — Street Address, Country, State, City, ZIP Code.

      Country and State are not cosmetic: they decide which consent rules apply to this contact.

    5. 5

      Fill in any custom fields your account defines.

    6. 6

      Read the Consent section, but do not expect to set anything in it.

      When adding a contact it is a read-only jurisdiction preview of what will be auto-granted on save.

    7. 7

      Click Add Contact to save, or Cancel to leave.

      If your plan is already at its contact limit, the button is blocked before the form even opens.

    First NameRequiredThe only starred field on the form.
    Last NameOptional
    Phone / EmailAt least one of the twoNeither is required on its own.
    TagsOptionalTag on the way in so you can find this contact by source later.
    AddressStreet Address, Country, State, City, ZIP CodeCountry and state decide which consent rules apply to this contact.

    Compliance

    Informational consent is applied only where the jurisdiction rule allows it; marketing consent is never granted automatically. To record real consent you need evidence, on the consent screen or from a form the contact submitted.

    Open Contacts
  • Search and filter the contact list

    Every bulk action, export and send starts from the set of contacts you have filtered down to.

    SidebarContacts
    1. 1

      Type into the box marked Search contacts... above the list.

      For a single person whose name you already know, the top-bar search — "Search contacts, documents, forms..." — is faster than filtering the list at all.

    2. 2

      Narrow further with the tag-filter dropdown.

      It lists your tags, with a Manage Tags link at the bottom.

    3. 3

      Narrow further again with the pipeline selector next to it — the same selector that drives the Kanban view.

    4. 4

      All three combine. Whatever is left on screen is the "filtered contacts" scope.

      That scope is what Export and the bulk actions operate on, so getting it right here is the whole job.

    5. 5

      Only now tick the rows you want.

      Do this last. Changing any filter clears the selection.

    Watch out

    Changing any filter clears your row selection — including a filter you change by accident. If a bulk action suddenly says nothing is selected, this is why.

  • Switch between Table, Grid and Kanban

    Only one of the three lets you select rows, which is why bulk actions sometimes seem to be missing.

    SidebarContactsview switcher
    1. 1

      Find the view switcher above the contact list — it toggles Table / Grid / Kanban.

    2. 2

      Click Table for the full list with checkboxes.

      The only view with row selection, and therefore the only view where bulk actions exist.

    3. 3

      Click Grid for contact cards — good for browsing, not for working.

    4. 4

      Click Kanban for the pipeline board, then pick a pipeline in the selector and drag cards between stages.

    5. 5

      In Table view, use the header checkbox to select the current page of 20 rows.

      When the whole page is checked and more contacts match your filter, a banner offers "Select all {N} contacts matching this filter", capped at 500 — the same ceiling the bulk endpoints enforce.

    Watch out

    Selection exists only in Table view. Grid, Kanban and the mobile card list render no checkboxes, so every bulk action — Send Message, Send Document, Send Intake Form, Add Tag, Remove Tag, Update Consent, Export, Delete — is desktop Table view only. That is the answer to "where did the bulk actions go".

  • Edit a contact's details

    Changing a phone, email, country or state re-runs the jurisdiction rules, so an edit can change what you may send.

    Contactsa contactEdit Contact
    1. 1

      Open the contact, then click Edit Contact.

      It is a button on the contact page and an item in the Contact actions menu (the vertical-dots button, top right).

    2. 2

      Change what you need across Identity, Address and your custom fields.

      The modal is the one you added the contact with, now described as "Update the contact information below."

    3. 3

      Click Save Changes.

      Or Cancel to drop the edits — but see the next step, because Cancel does not undo everything.

    4. 4

      To change consent while you are here, click a cell in the Consent matrix.

      In edit mode this section is the live 3x2 matrix, not the preview you saw when adding. It opens the same evidence drawer as the full consent screen.

    5. 5

      Be aware that a consent write from this modal applies immediately.

      It does not wait for Save Changes, and Cancel does not undo it. The Full history link jumps to the consent screen.

    Compliance

    If your edit changes the phone, email, country or state, the jurisdiction rule is re-applied: cells the new jurisdiction allows are granted, and cells it now blocks are revoked if they had only been auto-granted in the first place. An explicit opt-out and anything captured with evidence — a form submission, the consent screen, a double opt-in confirmation — are never touched.

  • Move a contact to another pipeline stage

    Stage changes are a workflow trigger, so moving a card can be what starts your follow-up automation.

    ContactsKanbanpipeline selectordrag the card
    1. 1

      Switch the contact list to Kanban in the view switcher.

    2. 2

      Choose the pipeline you want in the pipeline selector.

    3. 3

      Drag the contact card from one stage column to another.

      The contact page shows the same thing as a Pipeline Progress section.

    4. 4

      To put contacts into a pipeline in the first place, switch to Table, tick the rows, and open the Add to Pipeline modal from the bulk toolbar.

      Pick a Pipeline and a Stage, then click Add to {Pipeline}.

    Tip

    A contact sits in at most one stage per pipeline, so moving is a move and not a copy. Both adding a contact to a pipeline and moving them between stages fire workflow triggers you can build automation on — which is why a stage change is worth doing deliberately.

  • Deal with duplicate contacts

    Duplicates split a person's consent record and history across two rows, which is exactly what you do not want at audit time.

    Respectly treats two contacts as the same person when their email matches exactly (ignoring case) or their phone digits match. The check runs on create and on import, within your account only.

    1. 1

      Decide the outcome before the import, not after: the Import Options step is where duplicates are settled.

      By the time a duplicate exists, your only tool is a re-import.

    2. 2

      Pick Skip duplicate rows to leave existing contacts exactly as they are. This is the default.

    3. 3

      Pick Update existing contacts when the CSV is more current than the app — the matching contact is updated from the file.

    4. 4

      Pick Create duplicates anyway only if you mean it.

      It really does create a second record, including for rows repeated inside the same file.

    5. 5

      To consolidate two records that already exist, re-import the good data with Update existing contacts, then delete the record you no longer want.

      There is no merge action in the contact list.

    Watch out

    Duplicates split a person's consent record and history across two rows. One row can be opted out while the other still looks sendable, which is exactly the state you do not want to be in at audit time.

    Tip

    Phone matching compares digit sequences, so a shorter number contained inside a longer one can match. Store numbers in a consistent full format and this stops happening.

  • Delete contacts, one or many

    Deletes here are permanent from your side — there is no undo and no bin to restore from.

    Contactsa contactContact actionsDelete Contact
    1. 1

      Export first if there is any chance you will need the data.

      There is no undo and no bin. This is the only safety net that exists.

    2. 2

      Open the contact, then open the Contact actions menu — the vertical-dots button, top right.

    3. 3

      Choose Delete Contact and confirm.

      The dialog asks "Are you sure you want to delete {name}? This action cannot be undone."

    4. 4

      To delete several at once, switch to Table view, tick the rows, and click Delete in the bulk-action toolbar.

      Capped at 500 contacts per go, like every bulk action.

    Watch out

    A deleted contact disappears from the list, from search and from their activity timeline, and the app offers no way to bring them back.

  • Export contacts to CSV

    It is your backup, your migration path and the file you hand over when someone asks what you hold on a person.

    SidebarContactsExport
    1. 1

      Narrow the list first if you want a subset — search, tag filter, pipeline selector, or ticked rows.

      The dialog offers scopes based on what is live when you open it, so set this up before clicking Export.

    2. 2

      Click Export in the Contacts page header.

      The same dialog opens from Export in the bulk-action toolbar.

    3. 3

      Pick a scope. The dialog has already chosen the narrowest one available.

      Your selection first, then your active filter, then everything — so an export never silently widens back out.

    4. 4

      If you deliberately want everything, pick All contacts (N).

      A note appears telling you it ignores your active filter or selection. That note is the point.

    5. 5

      Click Export {N} Contacts.

      The CSV downloads straight away — name and contact information, company and address, tags, consent status, and a column per custom field.

    All contacts (N)Everything in the account
    Filtered contacts (N)Only shown when a search, tag or pipeline filter is active
    Selected contacts (N)Only shown when rows are checked
  • Resend a double opt-in confirmation

    A contact stuck as Pending has consented on your form but is not yet reachable, and a resend is the only way to finish it.

    Contactsa contactConsent preferencesResend
    1. 1

      Open the contact and find the Consent preferences card.

      A channel mid double opt-in shows a blue banner: "Awaiting {SMS|email} confirmation from contact".

    2. 2

      Click Resend beside that banner.

      It cancels the outstanding confirmation and issues a fresh one, which expires 72 hours later.

    3. 3

      Check the cell afterwards. It reads Pending, not Granted.

      Until the contact clicks the link the channel is not opted in, and nothing may be sent on it.

    Before you start

    This state only exists when double opt-in is switched on. It is a Settings, Compliance option, and the platform can decide whether tenants may change it at all — so if you never see a Pending cell, that is why.

  • Restore a custom field you deleted

    Deleting a field hides its values rather than destroying them, so a mistaken delete is fully recoverable.

    SidebarContactsCustom FieldsDeleted fieldsRestore
    1. 1

      Click Custom Fields in the Contacts page header.

    2. 2

      Scroll to the Deleted fields section at the bottom of the drawer.

    3. 3

      Click Restore on the row you want back.

      The field returns to the end of the active list and its saved values reappear on every contact card.

    4. 4

      If the restore fails, read the message: another active field has taken the deleted one's display name.

      Rename or remove the newer field, then restore again.

    Tip

    If you recreate the field by name instead, Add Field notices: typing a name that matches a deleted field shows an amber warning that creating it will restore that field along with its previously saved values. The create endpoint reuses the soft-deleted row rather than reserving the key forever.

    Watch out

    Deleting a field only removes it from forms and cards — the "Delete Custom Field" dialog says so. Values already saved on contacts stay stored, which is why this recovery works at all.

Chapter 7

Message templates

Reusable SMS, email and voice content — generated by AI from one prompt, then edited.

  • Find your templates

    All three channels live in one library, which is not obvious from the sidebar label.

    SidebarTemplatesMessages
    1. 1

      Open Messages under the Templates section of the sidebar.

      The heading reads "Messages" and the subtitle spells out why all three channels share one page: "All your SMS, Email, and Voice templates in one place."

    2. 2

      Narrow the library with the channel pills — All, SMS, Email, Voice.

      SMS is tinted violet, Email blue and Voice amber, so you can pick a channel out of the grid at a glance.

    3. 3

      Narrow further with the status filter (All / Active / Archived), the Category filter, or the "Search templates..." box.

    4. 4

      Switch between the grid and list toggle — your choice is remembered for next time.

    5. 5

      Use the actions on any card: Send, Edit, Archive (or Restore), Duplicate and Delete.

      Send is offered on active templates only, which is what makes archiving a way to retire a template without deleting it.

    Open Messages
  • Generate all three channels from one prompt

    One description produces an SMS, an email and a voice script that say the same thing — far faster than writing three.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesCreate Template
    1. 1

      Click Create Template on the Messages page.

    2. 2

      Describe the message in the prompt box.

      Say what the message must achieve and what it must contain, not how to word it. "Confirm the appointment was booked and include the date and a calendar link" beats "write a nice confirmation".

    3. 3

      Pick a Tone — Professional, Friendly, Casual or Urgent.

    4. 4

      Click Generate All Templates.

      The button reads "Generating..." while it works, and lands you on Step 2.

    5. 5

      On Review your templates, use the channel toggle pills to keep only the drafts you want.

      Turning a channel off hides its card and drops it from the save count.

    6. 6

      Give each remaining draft a Template name, an optional Description and a Category, and edit the content inline.

    7. 7

      Click Save {N} Template(s).

      Nothing is stored until you do — see "Save templates from the review step" for what a refresh costs you here.

    Tip

    If you only want one channel, do not use this route — scroll past the prompt box to "Or skip the AI and create one" and start from blank instead. It makes no AI request at all.

    Create templates
  • Use merge tags safely

    A broken merge tag sends as blank text, which is worse than not sending at all.

    1. 1

      Use the variable picker or the Insert Variable chips. Do not type a tag by hand.

      The picker is fed by the same catalogue the delivery worker resolves at send time, so nothing you pick from it can send blank. Typing is where blanks come from.

    2. 2

      Match the syntax to the channel: {{first_name}} for SMS and email, {first_name} for voice scripts.

      Double braces on two channels, single on the third. This is the single most common merge mistake.

    3. 3

      Check the Variables in this template panel before you save.

      A tag pointing at a deleted custom field, or simply mistyped, shows there as a red chip with the reason — "this custom field was deleted" or "isn't a recognized merge tag" — plus "It will send as blank text".

    4. 4

      Look at the preview. A broken tag renders blank there.

      That blank is exactly what the recipient would see.

    5. 5

      If Unresolved merge tags appears on save, click Go back and fix — not Save anyway.

      A broken merge tag sends as blank text, which is worse than not sending at all.

    Watch out

    In the email editor the subject line takes variables too, and it is checked separately from the body. A broken tag in a subject line is the one people miss.

  • Write an SMS template

    SMS is billed and read by the segment, so the counter matters.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesCreate TemplateSMS Template
    1. 1

      Open Create SMS Template — from the quick-create SMS Template button, or by clicking Edit on an existing SMS card.

    2. 2

      In the Template Details card, fill in Template Name and pick a Category; add a Description if it needs one.

    3. 3

      Write the Message.

      The placeholder tells you the syntax: "Type your message here... Use {{variable}} to add personalization."

    4. 4

      Insert any personalisation from the variable picker rather than typing it.

      It lists the system tags plus your own Contact Custom Fields and Organization fields.

    5. 5

      Watch the live segment and character counter as you type, and check the Live Preview panel beside it.

      SMS is billed and read by the segment. Keep to one where you can.

    6. 6

      Click Save Template.

      If a merge tag will not resolve, an "Unresolved merge tags" confirmation appears with Go back and fix and Save anyway. Go back and fix it.

    Compliance

    Marketing SMS needs a visible opt-out and the editor reminds you. Replying STOP is handled automatically when a contact sends it, but the words have to be in your message.

    Example — Tasting Invitation

    Hi {{first_name}}, great news — {{date}} is available for your event! Let's get you in for a tasting & tour. Book a time here: {{booking_link}} — {{company}}

    Prompt used to generate it: "Write a friendly SMS confirming the client's date is available, inviting them to book a tasting and venue tour, with a link to schedule."

  • Write an email template

    The subject line does most of the work, and preview text does the rest.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesCreate TemplateEmail Template
    1. 1

      Open Create Email Template — from the quick-create Email Template button, or Edit on an existing email card.

    2. 2

      Fill in Template Details: Template Name, Category, and a Description if useful.

    3. 3

      Write the Subject Line.

      It does most of the work. Merge tags are allowed here — the placeholder shows the shape: "e.g., Welcome to {{company}}, {{first_name}}!"

    4. 4

      Write the Email Body in the rich-text editor.

      Bold, italic, H1, H2, bullet and numbered lists, links, undo and redo.

    5. 5

      Open Advanced Options and set the Preview Text.

      This is the line the inbox shows after the subject. Leaving it empty wastes the second-best piece of real estate you have.

    6. 6

      Check the Live Preview on both the Desktop and Mobile toggles.

    7. 7

      Click Save Template.

      The subject is checked for broken merge tags separately from the body, and both are flagged in the same "Variables in this template" panel.

    Tip

    Marketing emails get an unsubscribe link and your business mailing address added automatically. Do not hand-roll your own.

    Example — Proposal Sent

    Subject: Your event proposal is ready to review Preview: We've put together a custom proposal for {{date}} — take a look inside.

    Prompt used to generate it: "Write an email letting the client know their custom event proposal is ready to review, with a button to view it and a note that their date is on soft hold for 7 days."

  • Write a voice script

    Voice is a separate channel with its own consent and its own variable syntax.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesCreate TemplateVoice Template
    1. 1

      Open Create Voice Script — from the quick-create Voice Template button, or Edit on an existing voice card.

    2. 2

      Enter a Script Name (up to 100 characters) and a Description (up to 500).

    3. 3

      Pick a Call Type.

      Required before the script can be saved. The three options are outbound AI, inbound hotline and three-way merge.

    4. 4

      Write the Script Content — between 50 and 5,000 characters.

      Voice uses SINGLE braces: {first_name}, not {{first_name}}. Pasting a body across from an SMS template will not substitute.

    5. 5

      Open Call Settings (optional) if the defaults do not suit.

      Max Duration, Retry Attempts and Retry Interval — left alone they are 10 minutes, 2 retries and 24 hours.

    6. 6

      Add Tags if you want the script findable by them.

    7. 7

      Click Preview to hear it back with sample values and an estimated duration, then Save.

      A save-status indicator tracks it: Saving, Saved, Save failed, or Unsaved changes.

    Watch out

    Voice is a separate channel with its own consent and its own variable syntax. Both differences bite people who assume a voice script is just an SMS read aloud.

  • Find a template in the library

    All three channels share one list, so without the filters you are scrolling past two channels you did not want.

    SidebarTemplatesMessages
    1. 1

      Open Messages — every template you have, all three channels, one list.

    2. 2

      Click a channel pill: All, SMS, Email or Voice.

    3. 3

      Set the status filter — All, Active or Archived.

    4. 4

      Set the Category filter to whatever you categorised the template as.

    5. 5

      Type into "Search templates..." for anything the filters cannot express.

    6. 6

      Toggle grid or list. The choice sticks between visits.

      The channel filter lives in the URL, so /templates?filter=sms is a link you can bookmark or share. Accepted values are sms, email, voice and all.

    Tip

    Two empty states, two different problems. "No templates yet" means the library really is empty. "No templates match your filters" means you have templates and the current filters are hiding them — clear the filters rather than creating a duplicate.

    Open Messages
  • Quick-create a single-channel template

    When you only want one SMS or one email, the AI route makes you discard two drafts you never asked for.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesCreate Template
    1. 1

      Click Create Template on the Messages page.

    2. 2

      Ignore the prompt box. Scroll past it to the divider reading "Or skip the AI and create one".

      The AI route drafts all three channels at once, so using it for a single SMS means discarding two drafts you never asked for.

    3. 3

      Click SMS Template, Email Template or Voice Template — each labelled "Start from blank".

      No AI request is made and no AI credits are consumed, so this route works even when your AI balance is exhausted.

    4. 4

      You land straight on the review step with a single card and its editor already open.

      Fill in the name and the content, then save.

  • Save templates from the review step

    Generation does not save anything — until you press the save button on step 2 the drafts exist only in the browser.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesCreate TemplateGenerate All Templates
    1. 1

      After Generate All Templates, you land on "Review your templates", badged Step 2 — Review & edit.

      Nothing has been saved yet. The drafts exist only in your browser.

    2. 2

      Turn off the channel toggle pills for any draft you do not want to keep.

      Turning one off hides its card and drops it from the count on the save button.

    3. 3

      Edit each remaining draft inline, and give it a Template name, an optional Description and a Category.

    4. 4

      Click Save {N} Template(s) — the count tracks your toggles.

      Saved templates land in the library and are immediately selectable from a send.

    Watch out

    This step does not auto-save. Refreshing the page — unlike the Send wizard — puts you back at the start of the create flow with the drafts gone. Back to Generate is safe: the drafts survive it.

  • Name, describe and categorise a template

    The name and category are the only things you have to find a template by later, and every send-time picker shows them.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesCreate Template
    1. 1

      Fill in Template name — what the template is for, in a few words.

      Required. AI-generated drafts arrive with a suggested name you can overwrite.

    2. 2

      Add a Description (optional) saying when to use it.

      On generated drafts this is seeded from the start of your prompt.

    3. 3

      Pick a Category.

      No category, Notification, Reminder, Confirmation, Marketing, Welcome, Follow-up, Receipt or Other. Optional, and never guessed for you — generated drafts always start with none.

    4. 4

      To rename or recategorise later, open Edit from the template card in the library.

      The same three fields appear there as the Template Details card in the standalone SMS and Email editors.

    Template nameWhat the template is for, in a few words.Required. AI-generated drafts arrive with a suggested name you can overwrite.
    Description (optional)A longer note about when to use it.Seeded from the start of your prompt on generated drafts.
    CategoryOne of No category, Notification, Reminder, Confirmation, Marketing, Welcome, Follow-up, Receipt or Other.Optional, and never guessed for you.

    Tip

    The name and category are the only things you have to find a template by later, and every send-time picker shows them. Name it for the job it does, not for the day you wrote it.

  • Insert variables into a template

    Picking a variable from the list is the only way to be sure the tag you typed actually exists.

    1. 1

      In an inline editor — the template review step, or the Send wizard — use the Insert Variable chip row above the field.

      It opens with a few favourites for that channel, then every custom field your tenant has defined.

    2. 2

      Click All variables in that row for the full categorised picker.

    3. 3

      In the standalone SMS, Email and Voice editors, use the variable picker instead.

      It lists the system tags plus your own fields, grouped as Contact Custom Fields and Organization.

    4. 4

      Let it insert the namespaced form — {{custom.<key>}}.

      Typing the bare {{<key>}} works just as well, but only if you spell it right, which is the whole argument for the picker.

    5. 5

      In the email editor, insert into the Subject Line the same way.

      The subject takes variables and is checked separately from the body.

    Tip

    The chips come from the same catalogue the delivery worker resolves at send time, so nothing you pick from the list can send blank. Typing a tag by hand is where blanks come from.

  • Set a voice script call type and call settings

    The call type decides what kind of call the script belongs to, and it is required before the script can be saved.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesVoice
    1. 1

      Open a voice script for editing, or start a new one.

    2. 2

      Enter the Script Name — up to 100 characters, with a live counter.

    3. 3

      Enter the Description — up to 500 characters.

    4. 4

      Choose a Call Type: outbound AI, inbound hotline, or three-way merge.

      Required. The script cannot be saved without it.

    5. 5

      Write the Script Content — between 50 and 5,000 characters, using single-brace variables.

      The placeholder says it: "Write your voice script here... Use {variable_name} to insert dynamic values."

    6. 6

      Expand Call Settings (optional) to change Max Duration (minutes), Retry Attempts or Retry Interval (hours).

      Defaults are 10 minutes, 2 retries and 24 hours. Add Tags here too.

    7. 7

      Click Preview to render the script with sample values and an estimated duration, then Save.

      The save-status indicator reads Saving, Saved, Save failed or Unsaved changes.

  • Duplicate a template

    Copying a working template is safer than editing it, because anything already sending from it keeps the wording it had.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesDuplicate
    1. 1

      Find the template in the library and click Duplicate on its card.

    2. 2

      The copy appears with " (Copy)" appended to the name.

      Voice scripts duplicate the same way, tags included.

    3. 3

      Click Edit on the copy, rename it, and change the wording.

    4. 4

      Leave the original alone.

      That is the point: anything already sending from it keeps the wording it had.

    Tip

    Duplicating is also how you build channel variants of the same message. The library stores one channel per template, so an SMS and an email version are always two separate rows.

  • Archive, restore or delete a template

    Archiving takes a template out of the pickers without destroying the record behind messages you already sent.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesArchive
    1. 1

      To retire a template, click Archive on its card.

      It drops out of the default view immediately.

    2. 2

      To see archived templates again, switch the status filter from Active to Archived.

    3. 3

      To bring one back, click Restore on the archived card.

    4. 4

      Use Delete only when you genuinely want the record gone.

      Archiving already stops a template being used — Send is offered on active templates only.

    Watch out

    Archiving takes a template out of the pickers without destroying the record behind messages you already sent. Deleting is the one that does not. Reach for Archive first.

  • Send a campaign straight from a template

    You do not have to start at the Send screen — the library can launch a send with the template already loaded.

    SidebarTemplatesMessagesSend
    1. 1

      Find the template in the library and click Send on its card.

      Offered on active templates only.

    2. 2

      The send flow opens with that template already chosen.

      You go straight to recipients and review rather than starting from the Send screen and picking it again.

    3. 3

      While editing an active SMS or Email template, use the Send Campaign button instead.

      Same shortcut, without leaving the editor.

    4. 4

      From inside the Send wizard, reach the same templates per channel: set a channel card to Template mode and pick from the selector.

      Or @-mention the template in the prompt box before generating.

    Before you start

    Sending from here needs the campaigns:send permission, which is separate from the permission to read and edit templates. Without it the library still opens, but the Send action does not appear.

Chapter 8

Forms

Collect information and consent with a link or a QR code.

  • Forms or agreements?

    They share one list and one builder, so knowing which you are making avoids a wrong turn at step one.

    The Forms & Documents page holds both. An Information Form gathers responses, consent or registrations through a shared link or QR code. An Agreement is sent to named people for e-signature. Chapter 9 covers agreements.

  • Build a form

    Describing what you need in a sentence is dramatically faster than dragging fields.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsCreate New
    1. 1

      Open Forms & Documents in the sidebar and click Create New.

    2. 2

      Tell the Smart Create wizard what you are making.

      An Information Form gathers responses, consent or registrations through a shared link or QR code. An Agreement is sent to named people for e-signature.

    3. 3

      Say whether you have existing content to start from.

    4. 4

      Describe what you need in a sentence.

      This is dramatically faster than dragging fields. "Registration for a Saturday class, name, phone, which session, and consent to text reminders" is enough.

    5. 5

      Click Create with AI.

    6. 6

      Edit the result like any other form — the wizard gives you a starting point, not a finished thing.

    The Event Planning kit ships "Event Inquiry & Availability" — Capture event details and check date availability for prospective clients..

    Prompt that generates this form

    Create an event inquiry form that captures full name, email, phone, event type, requested event date, estimated guest count, preferred venue space, budget range, and how they heard about us — and capture SMS and email consent.

    Paste that into the AI form wizard to produce the same form yourself, then edit the fields.

  • Publish and share it

    A form that is not published is invisible; the three distribution routes suit different situations.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsPublishShare Form
    1. 1

      Click Publish.

      A form that is not published is invisible — the public address serves nothing.

    2. 2

      Click Share Form.

    3. 3

      For print, download the QR code as PNG or SVG.

      This is the one people underuse. On a counter, a leaflet or a van door it collects contacts and consent with no work from you at all.

    4. 4

      For anywhere online, copy the public URL and paste it.

    5. 5

      To send it to specific contacts, click Open Send Wizard and distribute by email or SMS.

  • Read the submissions

    There are two views — a table for the data and a dashboard for the pattern.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsView Submissions
    1. 1

      For the data: click View Submissions on the form card.

      A searchable table with a date filter and CSV export.

    2. 2

      For the pattern: open the form from the Inbox instead.

      The richer dashboard lives there — submission trends, per-field completion rates and answer distributions.

    3. 3

      Read the completion rates before you read the answers.

      They tell you where people gave up, which is the thing you can actually fix.

  • Which field type to use

    Picking the wrong type is what produces unusable answers — free text where you needed a date, or a phone number nobody can dial.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEdit
    1. 1

      Decide first whether the block should collect an answer.

      Field blocks ask the respondent for something and store an answer. Content blocks — paragraph, heading, list, image, table, divider, spacer, section header, page break — only explain, and collect nothing.

    2. 2

      For anything free-form, drag a Text Field, then set its input type.

      text, textarea, email, phone or number — so the answer is checked the way you would expect.

    3. 3

      For a calendar date, use a Date Field, never a text field.

      A typed date arrives in a dozen formats and none of them sort.

    4. 4

      For a choice, use a Select Field and pick dropdown, radio or checkbox, then edit the options.

    5. 5

      For a document or photo, use File Upload.

      The submission stores a link to the uploaded file, not the file itself.

    6. 6

      For an acknowledgement, use Signature.

      Fine as an acknowledgement. For a legally binding signature, send an agreement instead.

    Text FieldNames, addresses, reference numbers, free commentsSet its input type to text, textarea, email, phone or number.
    Date FieldA calendar dateUse this rather than a text field.
    Time FieldA time of day
    Select FieldA choice from a list you controlChoose dropdown, radio or checkbox, then edit the options.
    File UploadA document or photo from the respondentStores a link to the file, not the file itself.
    SignatureA signature drawn inside the formFor a legally binding signature, send an agreement instead.
    Overlay FieldA field positioned on top of an uploaded PDFOnly appears on PDF-backed agreements, not on a normal form.

    Tip

    A section header and a page break together turn one intimidating page into three short ones. Section headers become real headings on the public page, so they also help anyone using a screen reader.

  • Set a field's label, validation and width

    The properties panel is where a generic field becomes one that collects exactly what you need and rejects what you do not.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEditField Properties
    1. 1

      Click any field to open the Field Properties panel.

      On the right on desktop, a bottom sheet on mobile. Everything about that one field is set here, including deleting it.

    2. 2

      Write the Label — the question as the respondent reads it.

      It also becomes the column heading in the CSV export, so write it for both audiences.

    3. 3

      Set Required if the form should not submit without it.

    4. 4

      Set the Input type (text fields) or the Options and their display style (select fields).

    5. 5

      Add a Placeholder and Help text where the label alone is not enough.

    6. 6

      Set Validation — minimum and maximum length, a pattern, and the message shown when it fails.

      The failure message is the one the respondent reads, so make it say what to do.

    7. 7

      Set the Width — Full, Half or Third.

      The quickest win in the panel. Half and third-width fields sit side by side and stack back to full width on a phone, so First name and Last name take one line instead of two and the form looks half as long.

  • Brand the form

    A form carrying your logo and colours is completed far more often than one that looks like it came from a stranger.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEditBranding
    1. 1

      Open the Branding section in the form editor.

      The logo starts as the one on your profile, so most accounts need to change very little here.

    2. 2

      Set the logo and where it sits.

    3. 3

      Set the primary colour — it drives the accents and the submit button.

    4. 4

      Set the input styling: border radius, border colour, background colour and text colour.

      Leave these alone unless you have a house style to match. The defaults are fine.

    5. 5

      Check your profile has a logo and a company name.

      The hosted form carries a banner strip above the page with both. With neither set it falls back to the Respectly wordmark, which is not the name you want on your own form.

    Tip

    A form carrying your logo and colours is completed far more often than one that looks like it came from a stranger. This is not decoration.

    Set your logo and brand colour
  • What happens after someone presses submit

    These settings control the last thing a respondent sees, and three of them do less than their labels suggest.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEditForm Behavior
    1. 1

      Open Form Behavior in the editor.

    2. 2

      Set the Submit button text.

      Defaults to "Submit". "Book my place" converts better than "Submit" does.

    3. 3

      Write the Success message.

      Defaults to "Thank you for your submission!". This is the last thing a respondent reads — say what happens next.

    4. 4

      Set a Redirect URL if they should go somewhere afterwards.

      It is shown as a continue button on the success screen, not an automatic jump.

    5. 5

      Set the consent toggles — Capture email consent and Capture SMS consent.

      These two genuinely work; see "Capture email and SMS consent on a form".

    6. 6

      Ignore Notify on submission, Allow multiple submissions and Require auth for now.

      They are stored but not yet acted on. Watch the form dashboard or the Inbox instead of waiting for an email.

    Submit button textThe wording on the buttonDefaults to "Submit".
    Success messageWhat the respondent reads once it is sentDefaults to "Thank you for your submission!".
    Redirect URLA page to send them on toShown as a continue button on the success screen.
    Notify on submissionAddresses to tell about new submissionsStored but not yet acted on.
    Capture email consentShow the email consent box
    Capture SMS consentShow the SMS consent box
    Allow multiple submissionsWhether one person may submit more than onceStored but not yet acted on.
    Require authWhether the form asks who they are firstStored but not yet acted on.

    Watch out

    Three of these settings do less than their labels suggest. No submission notification email is sent, nothing is blocked by the multiple-submission or auth toggles. Do not build a process on them yet.

  • Embed the form on your own website

    An embedded form keeps people on your own page instead of asking them to follow a link they may not follow.

    SidebarInboxFormsPublic AccessEMBED ON WEBSITE
    1. 1

      Publish the form first.

      An embedded snippet pointing at an unpublished form shows your visitors nothing.

    2. 2

      Open the form from the Inbox to reach its dashboard.

    3. 3

      Find the Public Access panel.

    4. 4

      Under EMBED ON WEBSITE, click Copy HTML.

    5. 5

      Paste the snippet into your own page wherever the form should appear.

      It loads the same hosted form as the public link, so branding, consent capture and submissions all behave identically.

    Tip

    An embedded form keeps people on your own page instead of asking them to follow a link they may not follow. The same panel also carries the PUBLIC LINK and QR CODE if you want those instead.

  • Take a form offline

    Unpublishing stops new submissions without losing a single one you already have.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsUnpublish
    1. 1

      To stop new submissions, unpublish it. There are three switches for the same thing.

      "Unpublish form" at the bottom of the Share Form modal, Unpublish in the editor's top-right menu, or the toggle in the Public Access panel on the form dashboard.

    2. 2

      Check what happens: the public address stops serving the form.

      Everything already collected stays exactly where it was.

    3. 3

      To bring it back, republish. The same address returns.

      Which is why a printed QR code survives an unpublish.

    4. 4

      To remove it from the list entirely, use Delete in the card's More menu.

      It stops the public address working. It is not a hard erase — the record and its submissions are retained — but the form is gone from your list.

    Watch out

    Unpublish before you delete anything you have printed a QR code for. A deleted form and an unpublished one look identical to the person scanning it, but only one of them can be brought back from the list.

  • Export submissions to CSV

    The export is the copy you can hand to an accountant, an auditor or a spreadsheet.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsMoreView Submissions
    1. 1

      Open the form card's More menu and click View Submissions.

    2. 2

      Narrow the table if you want to check something first — search box, date-range filter, pagination.

      Set the range the right way round: backwards gives you "Start date must be on or before the end date."

    3. 3

      Click export.

      It covers every submission, not just the page in front of you — the filter narrows the view, not the file.

    4. 4

      Open the CSV.

      Columns are the submission ID, the linked contact's name, email and phone, one column per field using your field labels, the IP address and the submitted time. A field allowing several answers is joined into one cell with commas.

    Tip

    A submission that arrived with no email and no phone has no contact attached, so those columns are blank. You can link it to the right contact from the table afterwards. Signature fields render as images in the table rather than text.

  • Read the form dashboard

    The submissions table tells you what people answered; the dashboard tells you where they gave up.

    SidebarInboxForms
    1. 1

      Open the form from the Inbox — this is the dashboard, not the submissions table.

    2. 2

      Read the four tiles: Submissions, Today, Response Rate, Linked Contacts.

    3. 3

      Read Submission Trends over 7, 30 or 90 days.

      It names the peak day and a daily average.

    4. 4

      Read Field Insights — a completion percentage and answer distribution for every field.

      This is the one to act on. A field with a much lower completion percentage than the ones around it is where people are abandoning the form, usually because it is required and it should not be.

    5. 5

      For an individual answer, click View on a row in the submissions table.

      A side panel opens with the full responses, the device and IP, the consent given and a View Contact link.

    6. 6

      Use the actions menu for Duplicate Form or Delete Form.

Chapter 9

Documents and e-signature

Create agreements, send them for signature, and keep an audit trail that stands up.

  • Create an agreement

    Describing the agreement gets you a working draft in seconds; you keep the legal judgement.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsCreate NewAgreement
    1. 1

      Open Forms & Documents and click Create New.

    2. 2

      Choose Agreement — the thing you send to named people for e-signature.

    3. 3

      Choose your starting point: No, start from scratch to describe what you need, or Yes, I have an existing document to upload a PDF.

    4. 4

      If you described it, read the draft that comes back and accept it with Use This Document.

      It arrives with its signature and date fields already placed, which is most of the work.

    5. 5

      If you uploaded, answer the one question that is hard to change later: Keep as PDF and add fields, or Make it editable.

      Keep it as a PDF when the wording belongs to someone else. Make it editable when the wording is yours.

    Watch out

    An AI-generated agreement is a starting draft. Have anything legally significant reviewed before you send it to a customer.

    The Event Planning kit ships "Event Services Contract" as a reusable, signable template.

    Prompt that generates this document

    Draft an event services contract between {{company}} and the client for an event on {{date}}, with sections for services and headcount, a non-refundable deposit, a cancellation policy, a force majeure clause, and a client signature and date field.

  • Add signers and signing fields

    Assigning each field to a signer is what makes multi-party signing work in the right order.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEdit
    1. 1

      Open the agreement in the editor and type the prose directly.

    2. 2

      Type / to open the slash menu wherever a field belongs.

      It inserts signing fields — Signature, Text, Date, Time, Select, File Upload — and merge tokens: Date Signed, recipient tokens, your organisation tokens and your custom fields.

    3. 3

      Add each party in the signers panel.

    4. 4

      Click a field to open Field Properties and set its assigned signer.

      This is the step that makes multi-party signing work in the right order. Do it for every field.

    5. 5

      Set the label, whether it is required, validation and width while you are in there.

    6. 6

      Walk the document once before sending and check every field has an owner.

      A field left unassigned is a field nobody is asked to complete.

    Tip

    In a multi-signer agreement each party sees earlier signatures and values read-only in place, and fields belonging to others are locked. Assign every field deliberately.

  • Place fields on an uploaded PDF

    When the wording is fixed — a carrier form, a regulator's form — you overlay rather than rebuild.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEdit
    1. 1

      Open a PDF-backed agreement. The editor shows the pages with a signers panel.

      Use this route when the wording is fixed — a carrier form, a regulator's form — and you overlay rather than rebuild.

    2. 2

      Drag signature and text fields onto each page where they belong.

    3. 3

      Check placement with Preview, which opens the document read-only.

      An Edit button switches back. It is the safe way to check placement without nudging a field out of position.

    4. 4

      Note how this editor saves: about every 30 seconds, automatically.

      The newer full-screen editor does NOT — it saves only when you press Save. Do not assume one behaves like the other.

  • Send it for signature

    Signature sends run through the same wizard and the same consent checks as everything else.

    SidebarSendRequest a Signature
    1. 1

      Click the Send icon on the document card, or use Request a Signature on the Send screen.

      Both land in the same wizard, running the same consent checks as everything else.

    2. 2

      Pick the document.

    3. 3

      Set the delivery channels the invitation goes out on.

    4. 4

      On the recipients step, pick your contacts — or, for a multi-signer agreement, assign one contact per role.

      The step changes to Assign signers on its own when the document has more than one signer.

    5. 5

      Continue to review, then send or schedule.

  • Know what your signer sees

    You will be asked. Being able to answer without guessing saves a support call every time.

    1. 1

      Your signer opens the link. There is no login.

      You will be asked about this. Being able to answer without guessing saves a support call every time.

    2. 2

      They confirm their identity and agree to the terms.

    3. 3

      The document renders with clickable fields, a required-field count and a Sign next field button.

      They cannot miss a required field — the count tracks it.

    4. 4

      They provide a signature: drawn, typed in one of four fonts, or uploaded as an image.

    5. 5

      They click Complete Signing — or Decline to Sign, which asks for a reason.

    6. 6

      They see a confirmation and get an email with the signed document attached.

  • Verify a signed PDF and pull the audit trail

    This is what you produce when someone disputes a signature.

    SidebarSettingsVerify PDF Signature
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Verify PDF Signature.

    2. 2

      Drop the signed PDF in.

    3. 3

      Read the result: the signer details, the certificate information and an integrity result.

      This is what you produce when someone disputes a signature.

    4. 4

      For the fuller picture, open the document campaign in the Inbox and click Download Audit Trail PDF.

      It is generated from the record rather than stored as a file, so it is current at the moment you download it.

  • Upload a PDF and choose how to use it

    The choice you make straight after the upload decides which editor you get and whether the wording stays fixed.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsCreate NewAgreementYes, I have an existing document
    1. 1

      Click Create New, choose Agreement, then Yes, I have an existing document.

    2. 2

      Upload the file. PDF only, up to 50 MB.

      Anything else is rejected at this step.

    3. 3

      Answer the question that follows — and answer it deliberately, because it is hard to change later.

      "Keep as PDF and add fields" or "Make it editable".

    4. 4

      Choose Keep as PDF and add fields whenever the wording belongs to someone else.

      A carrier form, a regulator's form, a landlord's lease. The original pages stay untouched and signatures are stamped where you put them.

    5. 5

      Choose Make it editable when the wording is yours and you expect to change it.

      You get the inline editor, and each signed copy is rendered fresh rather than stamped.

    Keep as PDF and add fieldsThe original pages, untouchedYou drag fields onto the pages and signatures are stamped onto the PDF where you put them.
    Make it editableThe wording becomes text you can editYou get the inline editor, and each signed copy is rendered fresh rather than stamped.
  • Generate an agreement from a description

    A described agreement arrives as a working draft with its signature and date fields already placed, which is most of the work.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsCreate NewAgreementNo, start from scratch
    1. 1

      Click Create New, choose Agreement, then No, start from scratch.

    2. 2

      Write your description in the "Tell us about it" box — between 10 and 2,000 characters.

      Name the parties and say what each one has to do. A description that reads like instructions to a junior colleague produces a far better draft than one that names a document type.

    3. 3

      Or pick from the prompt library instead of writing your own.

      Example prompt chips sit beneath the box.

    4. 4

      Click Create with AI and wait through "Building your content...".

    5. 5

      Read the block-by-block preview that comes back.

      Regenerate it if it is wrong, rather than accepting and fixing by hand.

    6. 6

      Click Use This Document to accept it.

      It becomes a normal agreement you can edit like any other.

    7. 7

      To rebuild an existing file instead, use the wizard's Import Document mode.

      Drop in a PDF, Word or Excel file or an image up to 20 MB and it is read and rebuilt as an editable agreement rather than left as a flat page.

    Watch out

    Generating and importing both spend AI credits from your plan.

  • Place signature and data fields on a PDF

    Nothing can be signed until there is a field to sign in, and the spot you drop it on is exactly where the signature lands.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEdit
    1. 1

      Open the PDF-backed agreement in the editor.

      You get the document pages, a name field, a signers panel starting with Signer 1, a preview toggle, and Save and Send actions.

    2. 2

      Drag signature, initials, text, date and checkbox fields onto the page where each belongs.

      The spot you drop it on is exactly where the signature lands. Positions are recorded per page, so a field dropped on page three is stamped onto page three of the signed copy at that spot, whatever size screen the signer uses.

    3. 3

      Click Preview to check placement read-only.

      An Edit button goes back. It is the safe way to check without nudging a field out of position.

    4. 4

      Click Save.

      The full-screen editor saves only when you press Save, and returns you to Forms & Documents once it has.

    Watch out

    The two PDF editors save differently. The full-screen editor saves on Save only; the older PDF editor auto-saves about every 30 seconds. Do not assume your work is safe because the other one behaves that way.

  • Add more than one signer

    Assigning every field to a named signer is what makes a two-party agreement sign in order instead of all at once.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsEditField Properties
    1. 1

      Add each party in the signers panel.

    2. 2

      Open each field and set its assigned signer in Field Properties.

      Once there is more than one signer the fields are colour-coded, so you can see at a glance who is being asked for what.

    3. 3

      Walk the whole document and check every field has an owner.

      A field left unassigned is a field nobody is asked to complete.

    4. 4

      At send time the recipients step becomes Assign signers — choose one contact per role.

      That happens whether you picked the agreement inside the wizard or opened it with the Send icon on its card.

    Tip

    The signers go one at a time. When one finishes, the next is notified. Each sees the earlier signatures and answers read-only in place, with the other parties' fields locked; a signature field waiting on somebody else says it is awaiting another signer rather than offering a signing pad.

  • Preview an agreement before you send it

    Preview is read-only, so you can check the wording and the field placement without nudging anything by accident.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsPreview
    1. 1

      Click Preview on the agreement.

      It opens the same full-screen editor Edit does, but read-only — so you can check the wording and the field placement without nudging anything by accident.

    2. 2

      Read it as the recipient will.

      In the rich-text editor, preview fills your merge tokens with sample data, so you read the sentence rather than a row of placeholders.

    3. 3

      Click Edit when you find something to fix.

      An editable agreement opens in the inline editor; a PDF-backed one opens in the PDF editor.

    Tip

    Preview on a FORM behaves differently — it opens the live public form in a new tab, which is exactly what a respondent would see.

  • Duplicate an agreement

    Duplicating keeps a proven agreement untouched while you make the version with the one clause that differs.

    SidebarForms & DocumentsMoreDuplicate
    1. 1

      Open the agreement card's More menu and click Duplicate.

    2. 2

      The copy is named "Copy of" plus the original name and starts as a draft.

      The content, the fields and the tags all come with it.

    3. 3

      Rename it, change the clause that differs, and send.

    4. 4

      Leave the original alone. That is the point.

      Duplicating keeps a proven agreement untouched while you make the version with the one clause that differs.

    Tip

    Signatures belong to the send, not to the agreement, so a duplicate always starts clean. Duplicating a document that has been signed a hundred times gives you a fresh template, not a hundred signatures.

  • Track who has viewed and who has signed

    Every signature request moves through the same states, and which one a recipient is stuck in tells you what to do next.

    SidebarInboxDocuments
    1. 1

      Click the Documents filter in the Inbox.

      This is the list of everything you have sent for signature.

    2. 2

      Read each recipient's own status — see the table below.

      Which state a recipient is stuck in tells you what to do next.

    3. 3

      Open the send itself for the campaign dashboard.

      The recipients table with each contact's consent and compliance, a compliance score, and Download Audit Trail PDF.

    4. 4

      For anyone sitting on Pending or Viewed, send a reminder from the document panel.

      Most unsigned documents are forgotten rather than refused.

    PendingSent to them, not yet opened
    SentQueued behind someone elseMulti-signer only — they are waiting their turn.
    ViewedThey opened the signing page
    SignedDone
    DeclinedThey refused, and gave a reason
    ExpiredThe agreement passed its expiry date before they signed

    Tip

    Expiry comes from the agreement's own expiry date, not from the send. Once it passes, anyone opening the link gets an expired page rather than a signing page.

  • What happens when a signer declines

    A decline stops the agreement dead and does not chase you about it, so you need to know where it turns up.

    SidebarInboxDocuments
    1. 1

      Check the Documents filter in the Inbox. Do not wait for an email.

      A decline does not reliably notify you, and it stops the agreement dead without chasing you about it.

    2. 2

      Find the request recorded as declined and read the reason.

      The decline modal on the signing page will not close without one, so there is always a reason, a time and an IP address on the record.

    3. 3

      On a multi-signer agreement, expect everything to have paused.

      Nobody further down the order is asked to sign — which is right. You do not want three parties signing something the first one rejected.

    4. 4

      Fix whatever they objected to and send the agreement again.

      The declined link cannot be reused: once a request is signed, declined or expired it returns a completed page. Sending again gives them a fresh link.

    Tip

    A decline is a workflow trigger, alongside viewed and signed. If declines matter to you, build a workflow on it rather than remembering to check.

  • What happens after the last signature

    The signed copy, the emails and the seal are all produced after the signer closes the page, not while they are on it.

    1. 1

      Nothing happens while the signer is on the page — the signed copy is built after the last required signature arrives.

      An uploaded PDF has the signature images and answers stamped onto the original pages; an editable agreement is rendered fresh with them baked in.

    2. 2

      Your original is untouched either way, and can be sent again.

      That is what makes an agreement a template rather than a one-shot.

    3. 3

      The signer gets a confirmation email with a link to the signed document.

      Every owner on your account gets a "document signed" notification with a link back to it. On a multi-signer agreement those go out only once everybody has finished.

    4. 4

      The finished document is sealed with a digital signature.

      On a multi-signer agreement the seal is applied to the final copy only — sealing an intermediate version and then adding another signature would break the seal it just applied.

    5. 5

      Get the signed copy from the app rather than from the email if any time has passed.

      The download links in those emails are good for 24 hours.

    Tip

    To prove a signature later, drop the PDF into Verify PDF Signature — you get the signer details, the certificate information and an integrity result.

    Verify a signed PDF

Chapter 10

Send

The one flow that puts a message, a form or a document in front of people — and the checks it runs first.

  • Start every send in one place

    There is exactly one compose screen; every entry point in the app lands here.

    SidebarSend
    1. 1

      Click Send in the sidebar.

      Every entry point in the app lands here — the floating button, the inbox, the dashboard, and the Send actions on a contact.

    2. 2

      Describe the message in the prompt box.

    3. 3

      Set the Tone dropdown beside it.

      Professional, Friendly or Casual, with Professional as the default.

    4. 4

      Turn on the channel pills you want — SMS, Email, Voice.

      Email is on by default. Turn it off if you only want a text.

    5. 5

      Or skip the prompt entirely with a shortcut: Request a Signature, Send a Form or Templates.

      Each opens a different branch of the wizard rather than drafting a message.

    6. 6

      Use the + button to @-mention an existing template, document, form, tag or pipeline stage.

      What you mention decides the branch — see "Attach a template, form or document to the prompt".

    7. 7

      Click Generate Draft.

      Arriving from Contacts with rows ticked carries them here as a "To:" chip, so recipients are already set.

    Tip

    Drafts auto-save. If you walk away mid-send, the Draft Campaigns panel on this screen offers it back — but only on this screen, never from inside the wizard.

    Open Send
  • Generate the draft and edit per channel

    Each channel gets its own card, so the SMS is not just a truncated email.

    SidebarSendGenerate Draft
    1. 1

      Click Generate Draft. You land on "Customize your content", one card per enabled channel.

      Each channel gets its own card, so the SMS is not just a truncated email.

    2. 2

      Set each card to Template, Compose or AI.

      Template loads a saved template into the card, Compose is hand-written, AI is the generated draft.

    3. 3

      Click Edit on a card to open the inline editor beside its live preview.

    4. 4

      Use the Insert Variable row rather than typing merge tags by hand.

    5. 5

      Read the compliance strip under each card before moving on.

      It shows the message type — Marketing, Informational or Transactional — and whether the content passes. That classification is what decides who is eligible two steps later, so check it rather than skimming it.

    6. 6

      Continue to Select Recipients once every card has content.

  • Choose recipients and read the eligibility flags

    This screen tells you, per contact, exactly why someone will not receive it.

    SidebarSendSelect Recipients
    1. 1

      Pick your recipients — individually, or by the tag or pipeline stage you mentioned earlier.

    2. 2

      Read the eligibility indicator on each row.

      It says "OK to send", or names the exact problem: "Missing phone for SMS & Voice", "No consent for SMS & Email".

    3. 3

      Read the consent badges beside it for the detail behind that verdict.

      This screen tells you, per contact, exactly why someone will not receive the send.

    4. 4

      Check the summary counts — selected, visible, hidden.

      A large hidden count usually means a filter is still applied from wherever you came in.

    5. 5

      Continue to review.

      Review Campaign stays disabled until at least one selected contact can actually receive the send. An amber note under the list says why — nothing selected yet, or everyone selected is blocked.

    Tip

    Consistently seeing "No consent for marketing" is not a bug — it is the auto-grant block. Marketing consent is never granted for you. Send those contacts your intake form and let them opt in themselves.

  • Review, then send or schedule

    The review screen is the last place the numbers are explained before anything leaves.

    SidebarSendReview & Send
    1. 1

      Name the campaign.

      Leave it and one is generated for you from the form, document or template name plus the date.

    2. 2

      Check the three summary rows — content, recipients and delivery.

    3. 3

      Read DELIVERY ELIGIBILITY carefully. This is the number that matters.

      It breaks down per channel and purpose, and names each excluded contact and why.

    4. 4

      Read WHEN TO SEND separately. These are sending groups, split by calling-hour rules.

      Each group is sent now, scheduled by you, or deferred automatically until its window opens. Expand a group to give it a specific time.

    5. 5

      Click Send Now, or Schedule Campaign if you set a time.

      The button label tells you which one you are about to do. Both stay disabled, with a "Nothing to send yet." alert, if no selected recipient can receive the send.

    Watch out

    Sending groups are about timing only — they do not check consent. Reading a sending-group count as an eligibility number is the easiest mistake to make on this screen. DELIVERY ELIGIBILITY is the number that tells you who will actually receive it.

    Compliance

    Post-stay review requests are marketing in most jurisdictions, not service messages. Collect that consent at booking, on the same form that captures the event details.

  • Compose an SMS

    An SMS that spills past one segment costs more to send and can arrive split in two.

    SidebarSendSMSGenerate Draft
    1. 1

      On the Send screen, describe the message in the prompt box.

    2. 2

      Turn on the SMS channel pill, and turn Email off if you only want a text.

      Email is on by default.

    3. 3

      Click Generate Draft.

      With no channel selected the button stays disabled and an inline note reads "Select at least one delivery channel".

    4. 4

      On "Customize your content", find the SMS card and click Edit to open the inline editor.

    5. 5

      Watch the live character and segment counter as you write.

      Plain GSM-7 fits 160 characters in one segment, or 153 per part once it splits. One accented or emoji character switches the whole message to UCS-2, dropping those limits to 70 and 67. The progress bar shifts green to amber to red as you cross them.

    6. 6

      Switch the card between Template, Compose and AI if the draft is not what you wanted.

      Template loads a saved SMS template into the card, Compose is hand-written, AI is the generated draft.

    7. 7

      Continue to Select Recipients once the card has content.

    Compliance

    The editor carries the reminder for a reason: keep messages under 160 characters to avoid splitting into multiple segments, and always include opt-out instructions for marketing messages.

  • Compose an email

    Email is the only channel with a subject line, a preview text and formatting, and all three are edited in the same card.

    SidebarSendEmailGenerate Draft
    1. 1

      Describe the message in the prompt box and click Generate Draft.

      Email is the default channel, so it is already on.

    2. 2

      Click Edit on the Email card to open the inline editor beside the live preview.

    3. 3

      Write the Subject. Merge tags are allowed.

      Required, and trimmed before saving.

    4. 4

      Set the Preview text — the snippet an inbox shows after the subject.

      Optional, and the most-wasted line in email. Fill it in.

    5. 5

      Write the Body using the toolbar: Bold, Italic, H1, H2, bullet and ordered lists, link, undo and redo.

      Required.

    6. 6

      Continue to Select Recipients.

    SubjectThe subject line. Merge tags are allowed.Required. Trimmed before saving.
    Preview textThe snippet an inbox shows after the subject.Optional, but recommended.
    BodyThe message, with the formatting toolbar.Required.

    Tip

    An unsubscribe link and your business mailing address are added automatically to every marketing email. Do not add your own.

  • Compose a voice call

    Voice is a spoken script rather than a written message, so it has its own length rules and its own variable syntax.

    SidebarSendVoiceGenerate Draft
    1. 1

      Turn on the Voice channel pill BEFORE clicking Generate Draft.

      Enabling it afterwards means generating again.

    2. 2

      Click Generate Draft. A Voice Call card appears alongside any other channel you enabled.

    3. 3

      Click Edit and write the script — between 50 and 5,000 characters.

      The editor shows a live word count and an estimated duration calculated at 150 words per minute, so you can hear roughly how long the call will run before you send it.

    4. 4

      Use single-brace variables: {first_name}.

      Not the double braces SMS and email use.

    5. 5

      Continue to Select Recipients.

    Watch out

    Pasting an SMS body into the voice card will not substitute — the braces are wrong and every variable will read out literally. Voice is a separate channel with its own consent and its own syntax.

  • Attach a template, form or document to the prompt

    Naming an existing resource in the prompt is what routes the send into the right branch instead of drafting a message from scratch.

    SidebarSend+
    1. 1

      Click the + button under the prompt box to open the resource picker.

    2. 2

      Search it. It covers your documents, forms, message templates, contacts, tags and pipeline stages.

      What you choose drops into the prompt as an @-mention.

    3. 3

      Mention a document to turn the send into a signature request, with that document already selected.

    4. 4

      Mention a form to turn the send into a form send, with that form already selected.

    5. 5

      Mention a message template to open the matching channel card in Template mode.

    6. 6

      Mention nothing and the prompt is drafted by AI for the channels you picked.

      That is the default branch, not a fallback.

    Tip

    The Templates shortcut below the composer skips the AI entirely and takes you into the wizard with the channel cards already set to Template mode.

  • Pick a tone for the draft

    Tone is the one dial that changes how the generated draft reads, and it is set before generation rather than after.

    SidebarSendTone
    1. 1

      Set the Tone dropdown beside the channel pills BEFORE generating.

      Tone is applied at generation, not afterwards.

    2. 2

      Choose Professional, Friendly or Casual. Professional is the default.

    3. 3

      Click Generate Draft. The tone carries into the wizard with the prompt, the channels and any recipients.

    4. 4

      To change tone afterwards, click Back to the entry screen — your prompt text is restored — pick the new tone, and click Generate Draft again.

      There is no re-tone button inside the wizard.

    Tip

    Urgent is not offered here. It exists on the template creation screen at /templates/create, so generate the template there and load it into the send.

  • Send a document for signature

    A signature request is a different branch of the send flow, not a message with a file attached.

    SidebarSendRequest a Signature
    1. 1

      Click the Request a Signature shortcut below the prompt box.

      The wizard opens on "Set up your signature request" — a different branch, not a message with a file attached.

    2. 2

      In the TEMPLATE section — "Choose the content to send for signature" — switch between Document Templates and Voice Consent Templates.

    3. 3

      Pick the item to send.

    4. 4

      Set the delivery channels the invitation goes out on.

    5. 5

      Continue to recipients, then to review, and send or schedule as normal.

    Tip

    From Contacts, the Send Document action jumps straight to this setup step with the selected contacts already filled in.

    Compliance

    Signing invitations are always transactional, so they are not gated by marketing consent the way a broadcast is.

  • Send a form to contacts

    Sending a form is how you collect answers or consent back from people rather than telling them something.

    SidebarSendSend a Form
    1. 1

      Click the Send a Form shortcut below the prompt box.

      The wizard opens on "Set up your form send".

    2. 2

      In the FORM section — "Choose the form to send to recipients" — pick the form.

    3. 3

      Set the delivery channels the invitation goes out on.

    4. 4

      Continue to recipients, then review, then send or schedule.

    5. 5

      Alternatively, @-mention a form in the prompt box.

      That reaches the same branch with the form already selected.

    Open Send
  • Read the compliance strip and the message type badge

    The message type shown here is what decides who is eligible to receive the send two steps later.

    SidebarSendGenerate Draft
    1. 1

      Look under each channel card preview, below the content, for the compliance strip.

    2. 2

      Read the message type badge — Marketing, Informational or Transactional.

      This is what decides who is eligible to receive the send two steps later.

    3. 3

      Read the second badge. TCPA Compliant means the content passes.

      When it fails it reads Compliance Issue, with the top risk named beneath it.

    4. 4

      Check every active channel, not just the one you wrote.

      The most restrictive type across your active channels governs the whole send: one marketing channel puts the entire campaign under the marketing rules.

    5. 5

      Act on a Compliance Issue before continuing — but note nothing forces you to.

      The panel is advisory. It never stops you moving on to Select Recipients; it only tells you what the eligibility numbers are about to look like.

    Tip

    The strip appears for all three source modes. A template you loaded or wording you typed by hand is classified exactly like an AI draft, because that classification drives recipient eligibility and the message type recorded on the campaign.

  • Use Regenerate & Fix on a flagged draft

    It rewrites the draft against the specific risk that was flagged, which is faster and more reliable than guessing at the wording yourself.

    SidebarSendGenerate DraftRegenerate & Fix
    1. 1

      Find the channel card showing Compliance Issue and read the risk named under it.

    2. 2

      Click Regenerate & Fix on that card.

      Offered on AI-drafted cards only.

    3. 3

      Wait. It re-runs the composer from your original prompt with the flagged risks appended.

      The result is re-checked automatically, so the badge updates on its own — there is nothing to click afterwards.

    4. 4

      If the card is in Template or Compose mode, there is no button. Open the inline editor and fix the wording yourself.

      Or switch the card to AI and generate a fresh draft, which brings the button back.

    Tip

    It rewrites against the specific risk that was flagged, which is faster and more reliable than guessing at the wording yourself.

  • Assign signers on a multi-signer document

    A document with more than one signer role needs a named contact per role before it can go out at all.

    SidebarSendRequest a SignatureAssign signers
    1. 1

      Pick a document with more than one signer role. Step 2 changes on its own.

      Instead of "Who are you sending to?" it reads Assign signers — "Assign a contact to each signer role".

    2. 2

      Pick the contact who fills each role.

    3. 3

      Continue to review, then send or schedule.

    Tip

    Signers are notified in order. Only the first signer is emailed when the send goes out; each later signer is notified once the one before them finishes.

    Watch out

    This also happens when the document was chosen outside the wizard — from a Send icon, an @-mention or a suggestion — because the wizard loads the document signer list first. If that lookup fails it falls back to treating the document as single-signer, so check the step you land on.

  • Fix an unresolved merge tag before sending

    A tag that cannot resolve sends as blank text, so the recipient sees a gap where their name should be.

    SidebarSendGenerate DraftEdit
    1. 1

      Look for the amber warning banner on a channel card.

      It names the cause: "{{tag}} — this custom field was deleted. It will send as blank text." or "{{tag}} isn't a recognized merge tag. It will send as blank text."

    2. 2

      Click Edit on the flagged card to open the inline editor.

    3. 3

      Remove the tag, or replace it using the Insert Variable row.

      The row only offers tags that exist, which is the point of using it.

    4. 4

      Save the card. The banner clears once no unresolvable tag remains.

      The preview stops rendering the tag as a blank red block at the same moment.

    Watch out

    If you click Send Now or Schedule Campaign with a tag still unresolved, an "Unresolved merge tags" dialog lists them and offers Go back and fix alongside Send anyway / Schedule anyway. The send is never hard-blocked, because re-creating a deleted custom field with the same key makes the tag work again — but a blank where a name should be is what the recipient sees.

  • Understand sending groups on the review step

    Sending groups are about calling hours only, and reading them as an eligibility count is the easiest mistake to make on this screen.

    SidebarSendReview & SendWHEN TO SEND
    1. 1

      On the review step, find the WHEN TO SEND section.

      It groups your recipients into SENDING GROUPS by the calling-hour rules that apply where they are.

    2. 2

      Read each group's disposition: sent now, scheduled by you, or deferred automatically until its window opens.

      A deferred group is not a problem — it is the product refusing to text someone at 3am.

    3. 3

      Expand a group to schedule a specific time for it.

    4. 4

      Then look UP at DELIVERY ELIGIBILITY for the number that actually matters.

      Sending groups say when; eligibility says who.

    Watch out

    These counts are scheduling only. They do not check consent and they are not an eligibility signal. Reading a sending-group count as "how many people will get this" is the easiest mistake to make on this screen.

  • Schedule a campaign for later

    Scheduling holds the whole campaign until a time you choose instead of sending the moment you finish the wizard.

    SidebarSendReview & SendSchedule Campaign
    1. 1

      Work through the wizard to the review step, "Ready to send".

    2. 2

      Give the campaign a name.

      Leave it and one is generated from the form, document or template name plus the date.

    3. 3

      Choose to schedule rather than send immediately, and pick the date and time.

      It has to be in the future.

    4. 4

      Check the timezone.

      It defaults to the one your browser reports, which is not always the one your recipients are in.

    5. 5

      Click Schedule Campaign.

      The button reads Send Now when no schedule is set, so the label tells you which one you are about to do.

    6. 6

      You land in the Inbox, where the campaign is listed with its scheduled status.

      Individual sending groups can still be given their own times in WHEN TO SEND.

    Open the Inbox
  • Resume a saved send draft

    A send you walked away from is not lost — but it is only offered back to you in one place.

    SidebarSendDraft CampaignsResume
    1. 1

      Go to the Send entry screen. Not into the wizard — the entry screen.

      Resuming is offered here only. If you are already partway through a different send, click Back first.

    2. 2

      Find the Draft Campaigns panel.

      Each row shows when it was saved — "Saved {time ago}".

    3. 3

      Click Resume on the row you want.

      The whole wizard is restored, including the step you were on.

    4. 4

      Use the delete action on a row to clear a draft you will not go back to.

    Tip

    Drafts save themselves as you move between steps, and again if you leave the page mid-send. They are held per user per tenant, up to 20 of them, and expire after seven days.

Chapter 11

Inbox

Everything that happened, in one stream — and the place replies come back to.

  • Work the unified inbox

    Campaigns, conversations, forms, documents and consent events all land here.

    SidebarInbox
    1. 1

      Click Inbox in the sidebar.

      Campaigns, conversations, forms, documents and consent events all land in the same stream.

    2. 2

      Click a filter pill to narrow it: All, Campaigns, Documents, Forms, SMS, Email, Voice, Website Chat, Opt-Out, Opt-In.

      Each carries a live count that respects your search and date filter.

    3. 3

      Type into "Search messages..." to narrow further — every pill count re-tallies against it.

    4. 4

      Tick rows to reveal the bulk bar: Archive, Read, Unread, Resend, Export, Delete.

    5. 5

      Read the status badges on a row before opening it.

      Scheduled with a countdown means a campaign is held for calling hours and will send itself. A red Blocked badge means it will not. Needs Review means something else wants your attention.

    Open the Inbox
  • Reply to conversations

    Inbound SMS and email are two-way here, and replies are still consent-checked.

    SidebarInboxSMS or Emailthe conversation
    1. 1

      Click the SMS or Email pill, then open a thread.

    2. 2

      Read the thread. Messages are grouped by day, with delivery and read receipts.

      The contact panel on the right carries consent and assignment.

    3. 3

      Check for an amber banner before you type.

      It appears when the contact has not opted in for that channel — the reply may be refused.

    4. 4

      Type in the composer, or click Suggest reply to draft one from the thread.

      Text conversations show a live segment counter and quick replies; email conversations have an attachment button.

    5. 5

      Send.

    Tip

    When the amber banner appears, fix the consent on the contact rather than retrying the send. Retrying a blocked reply just produces another blocked reply.

  • Read a campaign dashboard

    Delivered, opened and clicked are where you learn whether any of this worked.

    SidebarInboxCampaignsthe campaign
    1. 1

      Click the Campaigns pill and open the campaign.

    2. 2

      Read the headline numbers: Total Recipients, Sent, Delivered, Failed — plus Opened and Clicked for email.

      Sent is not delivered. The gap between the two is where the actual problem lives.

    3. 3

      Walk the Delivery Funnel card, which ends on Delivery Rate and Failure Rate.

    4. 4

      Read the Compliance Score card for how the send was judged, and Message Content for the message exactly as it went out.

    5. 5

      Scroll to the Recipients table for the per-person view.

      Search, a status filter, and the consent position of every contact.

    6. 6

      Use the Actions menu for Pause, Resume, Cancel, Duplicate or Resend to Failed.

      Only the actions that apply to the current status appear.

  • Watch the opt-out filter

    A rising opt-out rate is the earliest signal that your sending is off, and it is legally material.

    SidebarInboxOpt-Out
    1. 1

      Click the Opt-Out pill.

      It lists every consent withdrawal with its source.

    2. 2

      Read them. There is nothing to process — opt-outs are applied automatically.

      The reading is the job: a rising opt-out rate is the earliest signal that your sending is off, and it is legally material.

    3. 3

      Check the Recent Opt-Outs widget on the dashboard for the same signal without leaving the overview.

    4. 4

      When a source keeps recurring, go and change the sending behind it.

      Opt-outs cluster around one campaign, one list or one frequency far more often than they spread evenly.

    Open opt-outs
  • Know what each inbox filter shows

    The pills do not slice the same list ten ways — SMS and Email hold conversations only, and campaigns live elsewhere.

    SidebarInbox
    1. 1

      Pick the pill that matches the KIND of thing you are looking for, not the channel it used.

      This is the distinction people get wrong: SMS and Email hold two-way conversations only. A text campaign is under Campaigns.

    2. 2

      Read the count on the pill — it is exactly the number of rows that pill will show under your current search.

    3. 3

      If a badge and a list disagree, reload rather than working from the number.

      One of them is stale.

    4. 4

      Tick rows to reveal the bulk bar: Archive, Read, Unread, Resend, Export, Delete, with a "{N} selected" counter and Clear.

    AllEverything, newest activity first
    CampaignsSends you made from the Send screen
    DocumentsSignature requests and their progress
    FormsYour forms and the submissions against them
    SMSTwo-way text conversations onlyA text campaign is under Campaigns, not here.
    EmailTwo-way email conversations onlySame rule — email campaigns are under Campaigns.
    VoiceVoice sends
    Website ChatConversations from a chat widget on your siteOnly appears if your account owns a widget.
    Opt-OutEvery consent withdrawal, with its source
    Opt-InEvery consent grant
  • Find something in the inbox

    The inbox is one stream of everything you have ever sent, so search is how you get back to a particular message.

    SidebarInboxSearch messages...
    1. 1

      Click the All pill first if you are not sure what kind of item you are after.

      Search applies to whichever pill you are on, so starting narrow hides the answer.

    2. 2

      Type into "Search messages..." at the top of the list.

    3. 3

      Read the pill counts, not just the results.

      Every count re-tallies against your search, so the counts tell you which kind of item it was — the fastest way to find something you cannot place.

    4. 4

      Click that pill to see just those rows.

    Tip

    Empty results are worded for where you are: "No results for {your query}" when the search found nothing, versus a filter-specific message like "No campaigns yet" when the pill genuinely holds nothing. The two mean different things.

  • Reply to a text or email conversation

    A reply that comes back and sits unanswered is worse than not having asked, and the composer is also where consent gets checked.

    SidebarInboxSMS or Emailthe conversation
    1. 1

      Click the SMS or Email pill and open the conversation. It opens as a full page.

    2. 2

      Read the thread — grouped by day, inbound on the left, outbound on the right with delivery and read receipts.

    3. 3

      Check for the amber banner: "This contact has not opted in for {channel}".

      Your reply may be refused. Fix the consent on the contact rather than retrying the send.

    4. 4

      Type in the composer and press Enter to send.

      Shift+Enter starts a new line.

    5. 5

      Or click Suggest reply to draft an answer from the thread, then Use this reply — or Regenerate.

    6. 6

      Watch the extras for your channel: a live character and segment count plus quick replies on text, an attachment button on email.

    7. 7

      Click Back to Inbox to return to the list, or View Full Contact to open the contact record.

    Watch out

    Replying to a resolved conversation reopens it. The banner says so before you send, but it is easy to click past.

  • Assign, resolve and reopen a conversation

    Without an owner and a resolved state, a shared inbox is just a list nobody is sure has been dealt with.

    SidebarInboxthe conversationResolve
    1. 1

      Open the conversation and click Resolve — the green button in the header.

      Once resolved the same button becomes Reopen.

    2. 2

      To give it an owner, open the header menu (the vertical-dots button) and choose Assign to.

      Assigned is also editable in the contact panel on the right.

    3. 3

      Use Change Priority in the same menu — Low, Normal, High or Urgent.

    4. 4

      Use Archive Conversation at the bottom of that menu to take it out of the working list.

    Tip

    A thread stops counting as unread when you actually open or interact with it, not when it happens to refresh in the background. A reply that lands while the page sits untouched stays bold until someone genuinely looks at it.

  • Take over a website chat from the assistant

    A visitor asking for a person needs one, and joining the chat is the act that hands it over.

    SidebarInboxWebsite Chatthe chat
    1. 1

      Click the Website Chat pill and open the conversation.

      The pill only appears if your account owns a widget.

    2. 2

      Read the mode in the header: "The assistant is answering", "Waiting for a person", "You are in this chat", or "Ended".

      Below it: the widget name, the visitor email if they gave one, how many times they have been in touch, and the page they arrived on.

    3. 3

      Look for the amber banner — it carries the handover note from the assistant when the visitor has asked for a person.

      That is the one you want to act on first.

    4. 4

      Send a message. That is the takeover — there is no separate button.

      The strip says so: "The assistant is handling this. Sending a message takes it over." The composer placeholder changes from "Type to join this chat..." to "Reply to the visitor...".

    5. 5

      Click End chat when you are done, which closes it for both sides.

    Tip

    Every outbound turn is labelled with who wrote it — Assistant, or the name of the colleague who did — so the transcript stays a record of who said what.

    Watch out

    A website chat has no attachments, no text templates and no segment counter. None of them mean anything on this channel, so do not go looking for them.

  • Read the delivery funnel on a campaign

    Sent is not delivered, and the gap between the two is where the actual problem lives.

    SidebarInboxCampaignsthe campaign
    1. 1

      Open the campaign from the Campaigns pill.

    2. 2

      Read the six headline tiles — see the table below for what each one counts.

      The one to look at is the gap between Sent and Delivered.

    3. 3

      Walk the Delivery Funnel card, which puts the same numbers in order.

      Processing Complete, Delivered, then Opened and Clicked for email, ending on Delivery Rate and Failure Rate.

    4. 4

      Read Compliance Score for how the send was judged, and Message Content for the message exactly as it went out.

    5. 5

      Scroll to the Recipients table and set the status filter.

      All Status, Pending, Sent, Delivered, Failed, Opened, Clicked, Bounced — plus "Search recipients..." and the consent position of every contact.

    6. 6

      If the campaign is still running, leave it open.

      A LIVE pulse means it updates on its own — you do not need to reload to watch the numbers move.

    Total RecipientsEveryone the campaign was built for
    SentHanded to the provider, shown as a share of total
    DeliveredConfirmed as reaching the handset or mailbox
    FailedDid not arrive, shown with a failure rate
    OpenedEmail only — the message was opened
    ClickedEmail only — a link inside was clicked
  • Pause, resume, cancel or duplicate a campaign

    A send that is going out wrong can be stopped, but only while it is still going out.

    SidebarInboxCampaignsthe campaignActions
    1. 1

      Open the campaign and click Actions.

    2. 2

      Click Pause Campaign to stop it where it is.

      Only offered while it is sending. A send that is going out wrong can be stopped, but only while it is still going out.

    3. 3

      Click Resume Campaign to pick it back up from where it paused.

    4. 4

      Click Cancel Campaign to end it.

      Messages already sent stay sent. Nothing here recalls a message that has already gone.

    5. 5

      Click Duplicate Campaign to open Send with the same content and recipients already filled in, then change what you need and send it.

      The copy is also saved in your Send drafts, so you can leave and come back to it. Consent is checked again for each contact when you send.

    Watch out

    Only the actions that apply to the current status appear, so a finished campaign offers Duplicate and nothing else. If the button you want is missing, the campaign has moved past it.

    Tip

    A send held for calling hours is not stuck. It reads Scheduled with a countdown and sends itself when the window opens.

  • Resend the messages that failed

    Failures are usually a temporary provider problem, and a resend costs a click.

    SidebarInboxCampaignsthe campaignActionsResend to Failed
    1. 1

      Open the campaign from the Campaigns pill.

    2. 2

      Set the Recipients table status filter to Failed first.

      Optional, but it shows you exactly who you are about to resend to.

    3. 3

      Click Actions, then Resend to Failed.

      It only appears when there is something to resend, and targets only the recipients whose delivery failed — nobody who already received the message gets it twice.

    4. 4

      To resend to a hand-picked subset instead, tick those rows and click Resend in the bulk bar.

    Compliance

    A resend is a fresh send and is checked afresh. Anyone who has opted out since the original campaign will not receive it — which is correct, and worth expecting in the numbers.

    Tip

    Failures are usually a temporary provider problem, so a resend is worth a click before you go looking for a cause.

  • Send a reminder for a document nobody has signed

    Most unsigned documents are forgotten rather than refused, and a single nudge closes the majority of them.

    SidebarInboxDocumentsthe document
    1. 1

      Click the Documents pill and open the document row. A panel slides in.

    2. 2

      Read Signature Progress to see who is still outstanding.

      The panel also records Last Reminder, so you can see whether they have already been chased.

    3. 3

      Click Send Reminder for a single signer.

      When several are outstanding the button reads Remind All ({N}) instead.

    Tip

    Most unsigned documents are forgotten rather than refused, and a single nudge closes the majority of them. If you find yourself doing this by hand every week, it is a workflow: a document is opened, wait, then a text or email.

    Automate the chase
  • Read a form dashboard and share the form

    A form nobody can reach collects nothing, and the sharing panel is where its public link, QR code and embed code live.

    SidebarInboxFormsthe form
    1. 1

      Click the Forms pill and open the form.

    2. 2

      Read the four tiles — Submissions, Today, Response Rate, Linked Contacts.

      Response Rate is the one that tells you whether the form itself is the problem.

    3. 3

      Turn on the publish toggle in Public Access.

      A form nobody can reach collects nothing.

    4. 4

      Share it one of three ways from the same panel.

      PUBLIC LINK with copy and open buttons, QR CODE with generate and download, or EMBED ON WEBSITE with a Copy HTML snippet.

    5. 5

      Check Submission Trends over 7, 30 or 90 days.

    6. 6

      Read Field Insights for per-question completion and answer spread.

      The fastest way to spot a question people abandon — a field with a low completion rate is usually one to make optional or cut.

    7. 7

      Use the Submissions table for individual answers.

      "Search contacts...", a date range, and a View on every row that opens the full answers alongside device, consent and a View Contact link.

    SubmissionsEverything received
    TodayReceived since midnight
    Response RateHow often being shown the form leads to a submission
    Linked ContactsSubmissions matched to a contact record
  • Download a compliance report or audit trail

    If consent is ever questioned, the PDF is the record that answers it — and you want to know where it lives before you need it.

    SidebarInboxCampaignsthe campaignRecipients
    1. 1

      For one contact on a campaign: open the campaign, scroll to the Recipients table, and click Download compliance report on their row.

      One PDF for that one contact.

    2. 2

      For a document campaign as a whole: click Download Audit Trail PDF on the Compliance Score card.

    3. 3

      For a single document: open it from the Documents pill and click Download Audit Trail in its panel.

      Offered always, regardless of status — you do not have to wait for it to be signed.

    4. 4

      Once signed, use Download Signed in the same panel for one signer.

      When several have signed it reads Download All ({N}) and gives you a zip.

    Compliance

    The audit trail is generated from the record rather than stored as a file, so it is always current at the moment you download it. Take it when you need it rather than filing one away.

Chapter 12

Automation

Workflows react to things that happen; sequences run planned campaigns over time.

  • Understand workflows

    A trigger plus steps is the whole model — once that lands, the builder is straightforward.

    SidebarWorkflows

    A workflow is a starting event that enrols contacts, then a sequence of steps they move through. The canonical example: a new contact is added, send a welcome text, wait two days, send a follow-up email.

  • Pick a starting event

    Choosing the right trigger is most of the design work.

    SidebarWorkflowsCreate WorkflowStarting event
    1. 1

      Open Workflows and click Create Workflow.

    2. 2

      Name it in the header. It starts as Untitled Workflow.

      Do this now — an untitled workflow is unfindable in three weeks.

    3. 3

      On the Starting event tab, pick the category that matches what you are reacting to.

      Contacts, Forms & Documents, Messages, or Manual.

    4. 4

      Choose the specific event within it.

      Contacts: a new contact is added; agrees to receive messages; unsubscribes; is added to a group; moves to a new stage. Forms & Documents: fills out a form; a document is signed, declined or opened. Messages: a campaign finishes; a message is delivered; an email is opened; a link is clicked; a contact replies. Manual: you enrol contacts yourself.

    5. 5

      Narrow it in the config panel on the right.

      A specific form rather than all forms, one group, one stage, one document. This is where most misconfigured workflows go wrong.

    Tip

    Choosing the right trigger is most of the design work. A workflow that enrols nobody is almost always a trigger problem, not a step problem.

    Tip

    "Wait until a date" is the step that matters for a venue. Drive final headcount requests, balance reminders and the week-before confirmation off the event date on the contact rather than off when they enquired.

  • Add steps and branches

    The condition step is what turns a linear reminder into something that actually reacts.

    SidebarWorkflowsCreate WorkflowAdd a step
    1. 1

      Switch to the Add a step tab.

    2. 2

      Pick a category: Messages, Timing, Logic, Organize or Advanced.

      Messages send a text, an email, a document to sign, or a form to fill out. Timing waits. Logic branches or ends. Organize adds and removes labels, groups and stages, or updates contact information. Advanced notifies another system by webhook.

    3. 3

      Put a Wait Before Continuing between any two message steps.

      A workflow with no waits sends everything within seconds of the trigger, which reads as spam.

    4. 4

      Add Check a Condition where the workflow should react rather than just proceed.

      Its config panel opens with one-tap common checks — signed a document, opted into SMS, opened my email, submitted a form, is at a stage, has a tag — plus a search for everything else.

    5. 5

      Add a second condition to reveal the All / Any toggle.

      A plain-English preview restates the whole rule so you can check it reads the way you meant.

    6. 6

      Hang steps off the green If YES and red If NO arms.

    Tip

    To chase someone who has NOT done something, do not look for a "has not" check. Put a "has signed this document" check in and hang the reminder off the NO arm.

  • Activate it and watch the numbers

    A workflow saved as a draft does nothing at all, which catches people out.

    SidebarWorkflowsActivate
    1. 1

      Click Activate in the builder header.

      A workflow saved as a draft does nothing at all. This catches people out more than anything else in the chapter.

    2. 2

      Open the workflow page and read the four tiles: Total Contacts, Currently Active, Completed, Dropped Out with an exit rate.

    3. 3

      Read the funnel underneath for where contacts pile up.

      A big drop between two steps is the thing to look at.

    4. 4

      Use the searchable enrolments table to check an individual contact.

  • Run a sequence

    When you want a planned drip rather than a reaction, this is the tool.

    SidebarSequences
    1. 1

      Open Sequences in the sidebar when you want a planned drip rather than a reaction.

      Same engine, simplified wizard.

    2. 2

      Build the linear set of sends in the four-step wizard: Details, Audience, Messages, Review.

    3. 3

      Enrol contacts deliberately rather than waiting for a trigger.

      That is the whole difference from a workflow.

    4. 4

      Check the eligibility numbers rather than assuming a fault when fewer people receive it than you enrolled.

    Compliance

    Sequences are usually marketing, so every recipient needs marketing consent on that channel. Expect enrolment counts to be lower than your contact count.

  • Read the workflows your kit installed

    They are already running. Knowing what they do is not optional.

    SidebarWorkflows
    1. 1

      Open Workflows straight after applying a starter kit.

      The kit created and activated them immediately. They are already running.

    2. 2

      Open each one and read it, trigger and steps.

      Knowing what is messaging your contacts on your behalf is not optional.

    3. 3

      Edit, pause or delete any of them.

      They are ordinary workflows with no special status.

    The Event Planning kit activates 2 workflows:

    New Inquiry Intake — When a client submits the inquiry form, tag them, place a soft hold in the pipeline, and text a tasting invitation.:

    1. Tag them "New Inquiry"
    2. add to group
    3. Wait 2 hours
    4. Text them "Tasting Invitation"

    Proposal Follow-Up — When a client is moved to the Proposal Sent stage, email them their custom proposal.:

    1. Email them "Proposal Sent"

    Tip

    Open each one and read it before you rely on it — they are ordinary workflows you can edit.

  • Send a document to sign automatically after a form is submitted

    This is the most common automation there is, and doing it by hand means every new enquiry waits on someone noticing it.

    SidebarWorkflowsCreate Workflow

    Before you start

    Build the form and the document first — the workflow can only pick from what already exists.

    1. 1

      Open Workflows and click Create Workflow. Name it in the header — it starts as Untitled Workflow.

    2. 2

      On the Starting event tab, under Forms & Documents, choose Someone fills out a form.

    3. 3

      In the config panel on the right, under "Which form(s)?", pick A specific form and select your intake form.

      All forms starts the workflow for any submission, which is rarely what you want here.

    4. 4

      Switch to the Add a step tab. Under Timing, add Wait Before Continuing and set it to 5 minutes, or an hour.

      So the document does not arrive in the same breath as the confirmation.

    5. 5

      Add a step again. Under Messages, add Send a Document to Sign.

    6. 6

      In its config panel, under "Which document?", select the document you want signed.

    7. 7

      Click Activate in the builder header.

    Adding judgement to it

    1. 1

      Add a Check a Condition step between the wait and the send.

    2. 2

      Use the Has a tag or Is at a stage check so only the submissions you actually want to paper get the document.

    3. 3

      Hang the Send a Document to Sign step off the If YES arm.

    4. 4

      Put a plain follow-up email on the If NO arm — or nothing at all.

      Anything on that arm runs for everyone else.

    Watch out

    The Send a Document to Sign step only runs for a contact who has an email address and has opted in to email. A form submission that captured email consent satisfies both; one that did not will be skipped silently.

    Tip

    To chase the ones who do not sign, add a second Wait after the document step, then a Check a Condition using the Signed a document quick check, and put the reminder text or email on the If NO arm.

    Build this workflow
  • Start a workflow from something a contact does

    The five Contacts triggers cover the whole lifecycle from arriving to unsubscribing, and picking the wrong one is why a workflow enrols nobody.

    SidebarWorkflowsCreate WorkflowStarting eventContacts
    1. 1

      On the Starting event tab, open the Contacts category.

    2. 2

      Pick the event that matches the lifecycle moment you are reacting to — see the table below.

      Picking the wrong one is why a workflow enrols nobody.

    3. 3

      For A contact is added to a group, narrow it in the config panel to one group, and optionally one stage.

    4. 4

      For A contact moves to a new stage, narrow it to the specific stage.

      Left wide, it fires on every move.

    A new contact is addedSomeone new is added to your contactsFires on both manual creation and import, so a 500-row import enrols 500 people.
    A contact agrees to receive messagesSomeone gives consent to hear from you
    A contact unsubscribesSomeone opts out of receiving messages
    A contact is added to a groupA contact joins one of your groupsCan be narrowed to one group, and optionally one stage.
    A contact moves to a new stageA contact progresses in your pipelineNarrow it to the specific stage, or it fires on every move.

    Watch out

    A contact can only be enrolled in the same workflow once. If they are added to the group again later, they are not enrolled again — there is no re-enrolment or cooldown setting.

  • Start a workflow from a form or a document

    These four triggers are what turn paperwork into follow-up without anyone watching an inbox.

    SidebarWorkflowsCreate WorkflowStarting eventForms & Documents
    1. 1

      On the Starting event tab, open the Forms & Documents category.

    2. 2

      Pick the event — see the table below.

    3. 3

      For Someone fills out a form, choose All forms or A specific form.

      The picker lists your own forms under Forms and your built-in intake form under Intake forms.

    4. 4

      For A document is signed, narrow it to one document if the follow-up is document-specific.

    5. 5

      Use A document is opened for the nudge case.

      Opened, not signed — that is the gap worth chasing.

    Someone fills out a formA contact completes one of your formsChoose All forms or A specific form.
    A document is signedA contact signs one of your documentsCan be narrowed to one document.
    A document is declinedA contact declines to sign a document
    A document is openedA contact opens a document you sentOpened, not signed — this is the nudge trigger.

    Tip

    Because the built-in intake form appears in the form picker, submitting your default contact-collection form can start a workflow too.

  • Start a workflow from a message event

    Delivery, opens, clicks and replies are the signals that tell you someone is paying attention, and they are worth acting on while they still are.

    SidebarWorkflowsCreate WorkflowStarting eventMessages
    1. 1

      On the Starting event tab, open the Messages category.

    2. 2

      Pick the signal you want to act on — see the table below.

      Delivery, opens, clicks and replies are the signals that tell you someone is paying attention, and they are worth acting on while they still are.

    3. 3

      Narrow it in the config panel where the event allows it.

    A message campaign finishesAll messages in a campaign have been sent
    A message is deliveredA text or email reaches a contact
    An email is openedA contact opens an email you sent
    A link in an email is clickedA contact clicks a link in your email
    A contact replies to youA contact sends you a message

    Watch out

    A contact who replies is often asking a person a question. If you automate a reply to a reply, make sure a human still sees the conversation in the Inbox.

  • Enrol contacts into a workflow yourself

    Some automations should run for a list you choose rather than for whoever happens to trip an event.

    SidebarWorkflowsCreate WorkflowStarting eventManual
    1. 1

      On the Starting event tab, choose Manually enroll specific contacts.

      Nothing fires automatically after this — you pick the contacts yourself, whenever you want the workflow to run for them.

    2. 2

      Build the steps and click Activate as normal.

    3. 3

      Open the workflow from the Workflows list to reach its page.

    4. 4

      Click Enroll Contacts in the header.

      Disabled until the workflow is Active — the tooltip reads "Activate the workflow to enroll contacts".

    5. 5

      In Add Recipients, search and tick the people you want, then click Add Contacts.

      Up to 500 at a time. Anyone already enrolled is skipped.

    Tip

    This is also the trigger to use when testing — see "Test a workflow before you switch it on".

  • Send a text, email, document or form from a workflow

    These four steps are the ones that actually reach the contact, and each has its own requirement that quietly skips people who do not meet it.

    SidebarWorkflowsAdd a stepMessages
    1. 1

      On the Add a step tab, open the Messages category.

    2. 2

      Pick the step, then pick the template, document or form in its config panel.

      The pickers only list what is already in your account — there is no way to write the message inside the workflow builder.

    3. 3

      Check the contact requirement for the step you chose before you rely on it.

      Each of these four quietly skips people who do not meet it: a phone number for text, an email address for email, an email address plus email opt-in for a document or a form.

    4. 4

      For Send a Form to Fill Out, note there is no text-message version.

      Email only.

    Send a Text MessagePick a saved text template under "Which text message template?"Needs the contact to have a phone number.
    Send an EmailPick a saved email template under "Which email template?"Needs an email address. An unsubscribe link is added for you.
    Send a Document to SignPick the document under "Which document?"Needs an email address and email opt-in. The contact gets a signing link.
    Send a Form to Fill OutPick the form — your own forms and your built-in intake form are listed separatelyEmail only, and needs email opt-in.

    Compliance

    Text and email steps are checked against your consent and jurisdiction rules before they send. A blocked send is recorded as failed for that step, and the contact still moves on to the next step rather than getting stuck.

  • Label, group and update a contact from a workflow

    These steps are how a workflow leaves a trace, so the next campaign or filter can find the people it just touched.

    SidebarWorkflowsAdd a stepOrganize
    1. 1

      On the Add a step tab, open the Organize category.

    2. 2

      Pick the step and fill in its config panel — see the table below.

      These steps are how a workflow leaves a trace, so the next campaign or filter can find the people it just touched.

    3. 3

      For Add to a Group and Move to a Stage, set BOTH the group and the stage.

      The step needs both to place the contact.

    4. 4

      For Update Contact Information, choose the field and type the New value.

      Only the standard contact fields and your own custom fields are offered.

    5. 5

      For a webhook, use Notify Another System under Advanced.

      Set the Website or App URL and leave the Request type on POST unless the other system asked for PUT.

    Add a LabelChoose the label under "Which label to add?"
    Remove a LabelChoose the label under "Which label to remove?"
    Add to a GroupChoose the group, then a stageThe step needs both to place the contact.
    Remove from a GroupChoose the group under "Which group to remove from?"
    Move to a StageChoose the group, then "Which stage?"
    Update Contact InformationChoose the field, then type the New valueStandard contact fields and your own custom fields only.
  • Space steps out with Wait and Wait Until

    Back-to-back messages read as spam, and a workflow with no waits sends everything within seconds of the trigger.

    SidebarWorkflowsAdd a stepTiming
    1. 1

      On the Add a step tab, open the Timing category.

    2. 2

      For almost everything, add Wait Before Continuing — a number plus Minutes, Hours or Days.

      It asks "How long to wait?" and pauses that long, measured from when the contact reaches the step.

    3. 3

      Use Wait Until a Date only for a fixed event date.

      It asks "Wait until what date and time?" and holds every contact until that single moment — the same moment for everyone. A date in the past means the workflow simply continues.

    4. 4

      Put a wait between any two message steps.

      Back-to-back messages read as spam, and a workflow with no waits sends everything within seconds of the trigger.

    Wait Before ContinuingA number plus Minutes, Hours or DaysRelative to when the contact reaches the step. Use this for almost everything.
    Wait Until a DateOne exact date and timeThe same moment for everyone. Use it for a fixed event date, not for a delay.

    Watch out

    Wait Until a Date is measured against the server clock rather than your own timezone, so treat the time as approximate. If the exact hour matters, use Wait Before Continuing.

  • Build a Check a Condition branch

    A branch is the difference between a workflow that messages everyone the same way and one that reacts to what the contact actually did.

    SidebarWorkflowsAdd a stepLogicCheck a Condition
    1. 1

      Add the Check a Condition step. Its config panel opens with a Common checks row.

    2. 2

      Tap one of the chips — Signed a document, Opted into SMS, Opened my email, Submitted a form, Is at a stage, Has a tag.

      Or type into "Search checks..." for anything else.

    3. 3

      Pick the specifics if the check asks for them — which document, which label.

    4. 4

      Set the comparison. It reads as a sentence.

      A Yes/No toggle, a dropdown, a number, or a "within the last [7] days" control, depending on the check.

    5. 5

      Click + Add condition for a second check.

      A Match All / Any of these are true toggle appears, and a preview restates the whole rule in plain English. Read that preview — it is the cheapest way to catch a rule that says the opposite of what you meant.

    6. 6

      Back on the canvas, add steps under the green If YES column and the red If NO column.

      Steps on an arm run only for the contacts that took it, and when the arm runs out the contact carries on with whatever sits below the branch.

    Tip

    To chase someone who has not done something, do not look for a "has not" check. Use the positive check — Signed a document — and put the reminder on the If NO arm.

    Compliance

    Consent and do-not-call checks fail closed: if the answer genuinely cannot be established, the contact takes the NO path rather than being assumed safe to message.

  • Stop a contact early with End the Workflow

    Without an Exit step, a contact who has already done what you wanted keeps receiving the chase messages.

    SidebarWorkflowsAdd a stepLogicEnd the Workflow
    1. 1

      Add a Check a Condition step asking whether the contact has already done the thing.

    2. 2

      Add End the Workflow under Logic on the If YES arm.

      The config panel says it plainly: "Workflow ends here. When a contact reaches this step, they will exit the workflow. No further steps will run."

    3. 3

      Leave the chase messages below the branch.

      They then only ever reach the people who still need them.

    4. 4

      Check the workflow page afterwards — contacts who hit it are counted as Dropped Out.

      That is not a failure signal here; it is the step working.

    Watch out

    Exiting is final for that contact — the same trigger firing again will not re-enrol them, because a contact can only be enrolled in a workflow once.

  • Test a workflow before you switch it on

    An active workflow messages real contacts immediately, and there is no undo on a sent text.

    SidebarWorkflowsCard menuDuplicate

    Watch out

    There is no preview or simulation. An active workflow messages real contacts immediately, and there is no undo on a sent text. The way to test is to run it for one person you control.

    1. 1

      Open the workflow menu on its card and choose Duplicate.

    2. 2

      Edit the copy and change its starting event to Manually enroll specific contacts.

    3. 3

      Shorten the Wait steps in the copy.

      Otherwise you will be waiting the real two days to see step three. Remember to put them back in the real workflow.

    4. 4

      Click Activate on the copy, open it, click Enroll Contacts and pick yourself or a test contact.

    5. 5

      Watch the contact move through "Contacts in this workflow" on the workflow page.

    6. 6

      When it behaves, archive the copy and activate the real one.

    Tip

    A step missing its configuration carries a red Needs setup badge on the canvas, and Activate refuses with a "Finish setting up your steps" dialog that lists each unfinished step and jumps you to it. A workflow with no steps at all cannot be activated either.

    Watch out

    You can only enrol a contact once per workflow, so a second test on the same person needs a fresh duplicate.

  • Pause, resume and archive a workflow

    Turning an automation off is the first thing you will want when something reads wrong, and the three options do quite different things.

    SidebarWorkflowsCard menu
    1. 1

      To stop new contacts entering, click Pause on the card menu or in the builder header.

      It does NOT pull out the people already part-way through.

    2. 2

      To start again, click Resume on the card menu, or Activate on the workflow page.

    3. 3

      To take it out of the way for good, use Archive on the More menu of the workflow page.

      An archived workflow cannot be activated and is hidden until you select the Archived tab.

    4. 4

      Filter the list with the status tabs across the top — All, Active, Draft, Paused, Archived.

      They map exactly onto the four states in the table below.

    DraftSaved but doing nothing at allEvery new workflow starts here.
    ActiveEnrolling contacts and running steps
    PausedNo new contacts are enrolledContacts already part-way through carry on.
    ArchivedOut of the way and cannot be activatedHidden from the list until you select the Archived tab.

    Watch out

    Pausing stops new contacts entering. It does not pull out the people already part-way through, so if a message is wrong, fix or archive it rather than assuming a pause caught everyone.

    Tip

    Delete on the card menu archives the workflow rather than destroying it — it reappears under the Archived tab, with its history intact.

  • Duplicate a workflow

    Copying a working automation is faster and safer than rebuilding one that is nearly the same.

    SidebarWorkflowsCard menuDuplicate
    1. 1

      Click Duplicate on the workflow card menu, or on the More menu of the workflow page.

    2. 2

      The copy arrives as a Draft. It enrols nobody yet.

      Which is what makes this safe.

    3. 3

      Open it and change what needs changing.

    4. 4

      Click Activate.

    Tip

    This is the cheapest way to run the same follow-up off a second form or document: duplicate it, then change only the trigger config.

  • Read the funnel and the enrolments table

    The funnel is where you see contacts piling up at a step, which is usually a step that is quietly failing.

    SidebarWorkflowsView
    1. 1

      Open the workflow from the Workflows list.

    2. 2

      Read the four tiles — see the table below.

    3. 3

      Read "Your workflow at a glance", which redraws the steps as a timeline.

      Then the funnel chart below it, which shows how many contacts reached each step.

    4. 4

      Look for a big drop between two steps. That is the thing to investigate.

      A drop right after a message step usually means the send is being skipped for people without a phone number, an email address or the right consent.

    5. 5

      Use "Contacts in this workflow" for the individual view.

      Tabs for All, Active, Completed and Dropped Out, a "Search contacts..." box, and Started and Completed dates.

    6. 6

      Check the Inbox as well, not just the funnel.

      A failed send does not strand the contact — they carry on to the next step. That is why the funnel can look healthy while the messages themselves are not arriving.

    Total ContactsEntered this workflow
    Currently ActiveIn progress right nowIncludes everyone sitting inside a Wait step.
    CompletedFinished the full workflow
    Dropped OutLeft early, shown with an exit rateAlmost always contacts who hit an End the Workflow step.
  • Build a sequence in the four-step wizard

    A sequence is the right tool when you know who you want to reach and in what order, rather than waiting for an event.

    SidebarSequencesCreate Sequence
    1. 1

      Open Sequences and click Create Sequence.

      On the Details step, give it a Sequence Name and an optional Description. The name is capped at 255 characters with a live count.

    2. 2

      On Audience, choose Everyone, By label, or Choose people.

      The wizard shows how many contacts the choice matches — read that number now rather than being surprised at Review.

    3. 3

      On Messages, click Add Email, Add Text or Add Wait to build the run of steps.

      Reorder them with the arrows on each card.

    4. 4

      For each Email or Text step, choose Write a message or Use a saved template.

      Writing inline gives you a subject and body for email, or the message text for a text, with an Insert merge tag palette and a character and segment count. A Wait step is a number plus a unit.

    5. 5

      On Review, check the Name, Audience, step count and the Flow strip.

      Review lists whatever is still missing and keeps Activate & Send disabled until it is fixed.

    6. 6

      Click Activate & Send.

      Save as Draft leaves it switched off, which is the right choice if you are not ready.

    Watch out

    A sequence cannot be activated until it has at least one Email or Text step and an audience that matches somebody.

    Compliance

    Sequences are marketing, so every recipient needs marketing consent on that channel. Expect the number who actually receive a step to be lower than the audience count.

    Create a sequence
  • Enrol contacts into a live sequence

    The audience is fixed when you activate, so adding people later is a deliberate second action.

    SidebarSequencesthe sequenceEnroll Contacts
    1. 1

      Open the sequence to reach its page.

      The audience is fixed when you activate, so adding people later is a deliberate second action.

    2. 2

      Click Enroll Contacts in the header.

      Disabled until the sequence is Active, with the tooltip "Activate the sequence to enroll contacts".

    3. 3

      In the Add Recipients picker, search, tick the people you want, and click Add Contacts.

      Up to 500 at a time. Anyone already enrolled is skipped. They start at the first step.

    4. 4

      Watch the same panels a workflow has: Total Contacts, Currently Active, Completed and Dropped Out, "Your sequence at a glance", a funnel, and the contacts table.

      The header carries Edit, Pause or Activate, and a More menu with Duplicate and Archive.

    Tip

    Pausing a sequence stops new enrolments. Contacts already part-way through are allowed to finish, which is why resuming one does not re-enrol its original audience.

Chapter 13

Dashboard and reporting

Make the home screen show the handful of numbers you actually act on.

  • Customise your widgets

    The default layout is generic; five minutes here makes the home screen genuinely useful.

    DashboardCustomize
    1. 1

      Click Customize on the dashboard. The grid switches into edit mode.

    2. 2

      Drag widgets into the order you want.

    3. 3

      Hide the ones you never act on.

      They go into a Hidden panel you can restore from later, not away for good.

    4. 4

      Switch the density between comfortable and compact.

      Compact fits noticeably more onto one screen.

    5. 5

      Press Done.

      The layout is saved per user, so this changes only your own dashboard.

    6. 6

      If you make a mess of it, press Reset.

      It puts every widget back, and asks you to confirm first.

  • The widgets worth watching daily

    Four of the twenty tell you whether something needs your attention today.

    1. 1

      Put these four at the top: Outstanding Signatures, Unread Inbox, Failed Deliveries (24h), Compliance Attention.

      Four of the twenty widgets tell you whether something needs your attention today. These are them.

    2. 2

      Check Outstanding Signatures — agreements sent and not yet signed, oldest first.

      The oldest row is usually the one to chase.

    3. 3

      Check Unread Inbox — replies waiting on a human.

    4. 4

      Check Failed Deliveries (24h).

      Usually a bad number or a bounced address.

    5. 5

      Check Compliance Attention — sends blocked or held, and consent that needs capturing.

    6. 6

      Click any row to drill through to the record it describes.

      The rows are links, not just counts.

    Tip

    The rest are for looking back rather than acting today: Form Submission Trend, Average Turnaround Time, Document Signature Funnel, Consent Status, Recent Opt-Outs, Plan & Usage, and Quick Actions.

  • Get the data out

    Auditors, accountants and your own spreadsheets all want a file, not a screenshot.

    1. 1

      For contacts: Export on the contact list, scoped to your selection or filter.

    2. 2

      For form submissions: the CSV export from the submissions table.

    3. 3

      For one contact's consent history: Log PDF on the contact.

    4. 4

      For compliance decisions: Export CSV from Settings, Policies, Decisions.

    5. 5

      For signature evidence: Download Audit Trail PDF on a document campaign.

    6. 6

      For invoices: Download per row in Billing history.

    Tip

    Auditors, accountants and your own spreadsheets all want a file, not a screenshot. Every one of these is generated live, so take it when you need it.

  • Hide a widget and get it back

    A widget you never act on is noise sitting on top of the one you do.

    DashboardCustomize
    1. 1

      Press Customize on the dashboard. The grid switches into edit mode.

    2. 2

      Hide any widget you do not want.

      A widget you never act on is noise sitting on top of the one you do.

    3. 3

      To bring one back, open the Hidden panel — it is labelled with a count — and press Show on the widget you want returned.

    4. 4

      Press Done.

    Tip

    Reset, also in the Customize bar, puts every widget back and asks you to confirm first. It is the quickest way out of a layout you have made a mess of.

    Tip

    The layout is saved per user, so hiding a widget affects only your own dashboard, not your colleagues'.

  • Reorder your widgets

    What you need to act on today belongs at the top, where you will see it without scrolling.

    DashboardCustomize
    1. 1

      Press Customize. In edit mode the widgets become draggable.

    2. 2

      Drag the four you act on daily to the top.

      Outstanding Signatures, Unread Inbox, Failed Deliveries (24h) and Compliance Attention are the four that tell you something needs doing today.

    3. 3

      Put the trend charts below them.

      The dashboard is a twelve-column grid on a wide screen and a single column on a phone, so the order you set here is exactly the order a phone reads top to bottom.

    4. 4

      Press Done when the order looks right.

  • Change the dashboard density

    Compact fits noticeably more onto one screen, which is the difference between scanning the dashboard and scrolling it.

    DashboardCustomize
    1. 1

      Press Customize on the dashboard.

    2. 2

      Find Density in the Customize bar and choose comfortable or compact.

      Comfortable is the default. Compact fits noticeably more onto one screen, which is the difference between scanning the dashboard and scrolling it.

    3. 3

      Press Done. The choice is saved with the rest of your layout.

    Tip

    Compact pairs well with a long list of widgets. If you have hidden most of them, comfortable reads better.

Chapter 14

Team and billing

Bring colleagues in with the right access, and keep the account funded.

  • Invite your team

    Shared logins destroy your audit trail — every consent record names an actor.

    SidebarSettingsTeam Members
    1. 1

      Decide who the owner is before you invite anyone.

      The owner cannot be removed, deactivated or role-changed afterwards.

    2. 2

      Open Settings, then Team Members, and click Invite Member.

    3. 3

      Enter the email address and pick a role.

    4. 4

      Check the seat banner.

      It shows how many of your plan's seats are used, so you find out you are out of seats now rather than on the third invitation.

    5. 5

      Send it. The invitation appears under Pending Invitations, where it can be resent or revoked.

    Watch out

    Shared logins destroy your audit trail — every consent record names an actor. One person, one login, always.

  • Set up roles

    Most people need much less access than the default, and the editor makes that easy to arrange.

    SidebarSettingsRoles & Permissions
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Roles & Permissions.

      Look at the existing roles before creating one — adjusting an existing role is usually less work.

    2. 2

      Click Create Role.

    3. 3

      Give it a name, a description and a colour.

    4. 4

      Tick the permissions in the matrix, grouped by area.

      Contacts, Documents, Forms, Campaigns, Inbox, Templates, Analytics, Team, Roles, Settings, Billing, Webhooks and AI.

    5. 5

      Start from nothing and tick what the job needs.

      Most people need much less access than the default.

    6. 6

      Save.

    Tip

    System roles cannot be deleted or renamed, but you can edit what they may do.

  • Manage your plan and payment

    Everything billing-related is one page with four tabs.

    SidebarSettingsBilling
    1. 1

      Open Billing. Everything is on this one page, across four tabs.

    2. 2

      Start on Overview — your plan, current period, next billing date and status.

      Below it, usage meters for SMS, emails, voice minutes, documents, form submissions, contacts, AI credits and seats.

    3. 3

      Use Plans to change tier.

      Upgrades are prorated and immediate; downgrades take effect at the end of the period.

    4. 4

      Use Add-ons to buy extra capacity without moving plan.

    5. 5

      Use Payment to manage the cards on file.

  • Understand your trial and the card gate

    A trial that lapses locks every page, and the warning signs are easy to miss.

    Top bardays left in trialBillingPayment
    1. 1

      Watch the countdown chip in the top bar.

      It reads "{N} day(s) left in trial", or "Trial ends today" on the last day. On a wide screen it appends "· Add billing".

    2. 2

      Click it to go straight to Billing.

    3. 3

      Add a card on the Payment tab.

      Adding one does not shorten the trial — the remaining days are kept, and the card is only charged when the trial ends. Adding it early simply removes the gate.

    Watch out

    If the trial lapses without a card, the app stops letting you open its pages and sends you back to the plan step until a card is on file. Documentation stays reachable throughout, so you can still read this page.

    Open Billing
  • Stay ahead of your limits

    Hitting a hard limit mid-campaign is avoidable if you watch the meters.

    SidebarSettingsBillingOverview
    1. 1

      Watch the Plan & Usage widget on the dashboard.

      It mirrors the billing meters, so you do not have to go looking.

    2. 2

      Open Billing, Overview for the full set of meters.

    3. 3

      Act on a meter approaching its limit BEFORE a campaign, not during one.

      Hitting a hard limit mid-campaign is avoidable.

    4. 4

      When you do hit one, take the next tier or the add-on the modal offers.

      A soft limit instead warns that overage charges apply and lets you continue.

  • Resend or revoke an invitation

    Invitations expire, and an unclaimed one sitting in an ex-colleague's inbox is a live way into your account.

    SidebarSettingsTeam MembersPending Invitations
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Team Members, and scroll to Pending Invitations below the members list.

    2. 2

      Read the row: Email, Role, Invited By, Sent and Expires.

      An invitation is valid for seven days.

    3. 3

      Click Resend when the first email was missed or has expired.

      It issues the invitation email again. You do not need to revoke first.

    4. 4

      Click Revoke to cancel it.

      The link in the original email stops working — which is the point when the invitation is sitting in an ex-colleague's inbox.

    Tip

    Inviting the same address twice is refused with "This email already has a pending invitation." That is what Resend is for.

    Tip

    Someone you removed from the team can be invited again. Accepting the new invitation reactivates their old account rather than creating a second one.

    Open Team Members
  • Change a member's role

    Access granted on someone's first day is rarely the access they should still have six months later.

    SidebarSettingsTeam MembersChange Role
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Team Members.

    2. 2

      Find the person in the Members table — Member, Role, Status and Last Active.

      Last Active is worth a glance while you are here.

    3. 3

      Click Change Role on their row and pick the new role.

    4. 4

      Expect a delay. The change takes effect the next time that person's session refreshes.

      Not instantly, and not on your screen.

    AdminEverything except managing billing and creating or editing roles
    AgentThe operational subset — contacts, documents, campaigns and the inbox
    ViewerRead-only

    Watch out

    The owner's role cannot be changed, and the Owner role itself cannot be handed to anyone else. If the wrong person is the owner, that is a support ticket, not a settings change.

  • Deactivate or remove a member

    These two look similar and are not: one is a pause, the other frees a seat.

    SidebarSettingsTeam Members
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Team Members, and find the person in the Members table.

    2. 2

      For a leave of absence, use Deactivate.

      A reversible pause: they stay in the members list, are signed out immediately, and Activate puts them back. The seat stays used.

    3. 3

      For someone who has left, use Remove.

      They disappear from the list, are signed out, lose their role, and their seat is freed. Only Remove gives you the seat back.

    4. 4

      Either way, their history stays.

      Removal is not a deletion — the record is kept so the audit trail still names them as the actor on everything they did.

    DeactivateA reversible pauseThey stay in the list, are signed out immediately, and Activate puts them back.
    RemoveTakes them off the teamThey are signed out, lose their role, and their seat is freed.

    Watch out

    The owner cannot be deactivated or removed.

    Tip

    A removed person can be invited again later.

  • Create a custom role and set its permissions

    The four built-in roles are broad by design; a custom role is how you give someone exactly what their job needs.

    SidebarSettingsRoles & PermissionsCreate Role
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Roles & Permissions.

      The role cards show each role's name, how many members hold it and how many permissions it carries.

    2. 2

      Consider editing an existing role first — click its card to open the same editor titled Edit Role.

      Tightening an existing role is usually less work than building a new one and reassigning everyone.

    3. 3

      Click Create Role.

    4. 4

      Enter a Role Name (unique within your account) and a Description.

      Write the description. The next admin will not remember your reasoning.

    5. 5

      Pick a Color — it is how the role is badged around the app.

    6. 6

      Tick the Permissions you need in the matrix.

      Grouped by Contacts, Documents, Forms, Campaigns, Inbox, Templates, Analytics, Team, Roles, Settings, Billing, Webhooks and AI, with an All Permissions master toggle at the top.

    7. 7

      Start from nothing and tick what the job needs, rather than starting from everything and removing.

      The second approach reliably leaves something behind.

    8. 8

      Save.

    Watch out

    A role that still has members assigned to it cannot be deleted. Move those people to another role first.

    Open Roles & Permissions
  • Upgrade or downgrade your plan

    The two take effect at different times, and being surprised by that is an avoidable annoyance.

    SidebarSettingsBillingPlans
    1. 1

      Open Billing, then the Plans tab.

    2. 2

      Set the Monthly / Annual toggle above the cards.

      Annual is discounted by 20%.

    3. 3

      Find your current plan — it carries a Current Plan badge and a disabled button.

      Every other card offers Upgrade or Downgrade.

    4. 4

      Click Upgrade and confirm in the Confirm Upgrade dialog.

      Immediate and prorated — you are credited for the unused part of the old plan and charged the balance now.

    5. 5

      Or click Downgrade and confirm in the Confirm Downgrade dialog.

      Scheduled, not immediate. It takes effect at the end of the current period and you keep what you paid for until then.

    UpgradeImmediate, via a Confirm Upgrade dialogProrated — credited for the unused part of the old plan, charged the balance now.
    DowngradeScheduled, via a Confirm Downgrade dialogTakes effect at the end of the current period.

    Before you start

    Moving off the Free plan needs a card on file. If there is none, add one on the Payment tab first and the upgrade will go through.

    Open Billing
  • Buy an add-on

    It raises a single limit you are about to hit without moving your whole account onto a bigger plan.

    SidebarSettingsBillingAdd-ons
    1. 1

      Open Billing, then the Add-ons tab.

    2. 2

      Check Active Purchases first for what you already hold.

      The add-on, quantity, type, status and the date it started — with Cancel, Buy Again, and Retry where a purchase errored.

    3. 3

      Find what you need under Available to Purchase.

    4. 4

      Set the quantity with the stepper and click Purchase.

    5. 5

      Check the total in the Add dialog before you commit.

      A one-time add-on is charged straight away; a recurring one attaches to your subscription and appears on the next invoice.

    6. 6

      The extra capacity applies to the current period immediately.

      You do not have to wait for a renewal.

    Watch out

    On the Free plan the tab reads "Add-ons are not available on the Free plan". Upgrading is the only route to extra capacity there.

  • Update your payment card

    An expired card is the most common reason an account slips into past due, and it is the easiest to prevent.

    SidebarSettingsBillingPaymentAdd Payment Method
    1. 1

      Open Billing, then the Payment tab.

    2. 2

      Click Add Payment Method and add the NEW card first.

      Do this before removing the old one, so there is never a moment with no card on file. The card form comes from the payment provider — Respectly never sees or stores the number.

    3. 3

      Open the new card's menu and choose Set as Default.

      The Default badge marks the card that will actually be charged.

    4. 4

      Open the old card's menu, choose Remove, and confirm.

    5. 5

      Check the list reads the way you expect — brand, last four digits, expiry date, and the Default badge in the right place.

    Tip

    An expired card is the most common reason an account slips into past due. With no card on file the tab reads "No payment method on file" and explains what that means for your particular state — on trial, on Free, or on a paid plan.

  • Find and download your invoices

    Your accountant wants a PDF, and every charge on the account is listed in one place.

    SidebarSettingsBillingOverviewBilling History
    1. 1

      Open Billing and stay on the Overview tab.

    2. 2

      Scroll to Billing History.

      It covers all charges — subscription renewals, add-on purchases, overages and credits.

    3. 3

      Find the row you want: Invoice #, Description, Type, Amount, Date and Status.

      Type is one of Subscription, Add-on, Overage or Credit. Status is one of Paid, Pending, Overdue or Cancelled.

    4. 4

      Click Download on that row to produce the PDF.

    5. 5

      Act on any Overdue row the day you see it.

      Unpaid invoices move the account to past due, and from there into a grace period.

Chapter 15

Getting help

The assistant, the support queue, and what to do next.

  • Ask CoWork to do it for you

    It builds real things in your account, so it is faster than clicking for most one-off jobs.

    1. 1

      Open CoWork from anywhere in the app.

      It is available on every screen, not a page you navigate to.

    2. 2

      Ask in plain English for what you want built.

      Draft a template, build a form, create a workflow, find contacts. It does the work rather than telling you where the button is.

    3. 3

      Read the confirmation card before you approve it.

      Anything that creates or sends stops and shows you exactly what it is about to do first.

    Tip

    For most one-off jobs this is faster than clicking through the screens yourself.

  • Ask CoWork how something works

    It answers from this manual and links you to the article, instead of guessing.

    1. 1

      Open CoWork and ask your question the way you would ask a colleague.

      "How do I import contacts from a CSV?" works as well as any search term.

    2. 2

      Read the answer, then open the article cards underneath it.

      Those cards are the pages in this manual the answer came from. Clicking one opens it here in the app.

    3. 3

      Say the word if you would rather CoWork just did it.

      It only offers when it genuinely can. For screens it cannot touch — billing, most settings — it explains the steps and leaves them to you.

    Tip

    Asking a question never changes anything in your account. If a question could be read as an instruction, CoWork shows you a confirmation card rather than acting on it.

    Watch out

    If this manual does not cover something, CoWork says so and offers to put you in touch with a person. It will not invent an answer.

  • Get a person from inside CoWork

    It raises a ticket with your conversation attached, so you do not have to explain it twice.

    1. 1

      Click Talk to a person under the CoWork message box.

      It is always there — you do not have to ask the assistant first.

    2. 2

      Pick what it is about, and add anything you want the team to know.

      Both are optional. Your recent conversation is attached either way.

    3. 3

      Click Raise a ticket.

    4. 4

      Follow the link to your ticket, and read replies there.

      The thread lives in Support in the sidebar, the same as any other ticket.

    Watch out

    Nobody joins the CoWork chat. This raises a support ticket and the team replies in your Support inbox — asking again within a day adds to the same ticket rather than opening a second one.

  • Raise a support ticket

    It is also how you request a dedicated phone number, which has no self-serve route.

    SidebarSupportNew ticket
    1. 1

      Open Support in the sidebar and click New ticket.

    2. 2

      Choose a category — Billing, Technical, Compliance, Account, Feature Request or Other.

      Each one shows its response SLA, so you can see what you are signing up for.

    3. 3

      Write a subject and a description, and attach up to five files.

    4. 4

      Submit. Replies arrive in the same thread.

    Tip

    This is also how you request a dedicated phone number — there is no self-serve route for one.

    Open Support
  • What to do next

    A short, concrete list beats "explore the product".

    1. 1

      Send your intake form to everyone you imported.

      So their consent is captured by them rather than assumed by you. This is the highest-value thing on the list.

    2. 2

      Send one small real campaign to a handful of contacts, then read the campaign dashboard.

      Small and real beats large and hypothetical.

    3. 3

      Open every workflow your starter kit activated and confirm you are happy with what it does.

    4. 4

      Invite one colleague and check they can see what they need and nothing more.

    5. 5

      Come back to this guide for any chapter you skipped.

      The Help icon in the top bar reopens it.

    Ask CoWork to do any of these for you in plain English:

    • Tag everyone who submitted the Event Inquiry & Availability form this week as VIP.
    • Send the Event Services Contract to everyone in the Tasting / Tour stage for signature.
    • Move all contacts in Proposal Sent who replied this week into the Tasting / Tour stage and text them the Tasting Invitation.
  • What CoWork can do for you

    Knowing where the assistant's limits are saves you asking it for things it will never do.

    1. 1

      Ask it to read and analyse anything you can see.

      Contacts, tags, pipelines, templates, documents, forms and their submissions, workflows, campaigns and the inbox. CoWork acts as you, inside your account, and never has more access than your own role does.

    2. 2

      Ask it to create and update.

      Contacts, tags, pipelines and stages; documents, forms, SMS and email templates — each generated populated rather than empty.

    3. 3

      Ask it to send.

      A document for signature, a form, your intake form to a contact, an SMS, email or voice campaign, and replies in the inbox.

    4. 4

      Ask it to automate.

      It writes a whole workflow as a trigger plus ordered steps, creating anything a step depends on first.

    5. 5

      Do not ask it to change consent, or to hand you a file.

      Granting, revoking and opting out are yours alone; and there is no file channel in the chat.

    Compliance

    CoWork never changes consent. It can read consent and opt-out history and warn you about ineligible recipients before a send, but granting, revoking and opting out are yours alone.

    Tip

    Reading and creating happen straight away. Anything that deletes or sends stops and shows you a confirmation card first, listing exactly what it is about to do.

    Watch out

    There is no file channel in the chat. CoWork cannot take a PDF you want to upload and cannot hand you a CSV or a signed document to download — use the relevant page for those.

  • Verify a signed PDF

    It proves a document you have been handed is the one that was signed and has not been altered since.

    SidebarSettingsVerify PDF Signature
    1. 1

      Open Settings, then Verify PDF Signature.

    2. 2

      Drag a PDF onto the drop zone, or click it to browse.

      PDF files only, up to 50 MB.

    3. 3

      Read the result: the signer details, the certificate the document was signed with, and an integrity banner.

      The integrity banner is the answer — it tells you whether the file has been changed since signing.

    4. 4

      Click Verify another PDF to clear it for the next one.

    Tip

    This works on any signed PDF you have been sent, not only ones from your own account — it is a checker, not a lookup of your records.

    Compliance

    For your own sends, the Audit Trail PDF on a document campaign is the fuller evidence record. Verification confirms the file; the audit trail explains how it got signed.

    Open Verify PDF Signature

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