This week’s new post is dedicated to a new AppExchange app, meant to give us an awesome edge in Salesforce and that is creating beautiful, responsive Email Templates with a simple drag-n-drop editor.

Thanks to our week’s guest blogger Jitender Padda.

Jitender is the founder of CodeJinn and also an avid Salesforce developer who is always looking for innovative ways to make our lives easier on Salesforce.

The Challenge – Designing Elegant Responsive Emails

When it comes to designing perfect, responsive emails one has to make sure that it runs smoothly on all devices and this requires a team of professional Designers to toil endlessly to ensure that they create the perfect email which provides a rich and soothing vision to your customers. After all, it is one of you’re primary modes of communication with you’re audience and it needs to be done just right!

The Native Solution – Salesforce Email Editor

Let’s face the truth, even though we voted on this idea to have an improved email editor more than 1000 times, we still haven’t gotten what we would expect from a modern email editor. And now with the new Salesforce Marketing cloud, which does offer an enhanced native Email editor, it is highly unlikely we will see something like a drag-n-drop editor in our Sales Cloud or other Salesforce products. And thus we are forced to use custom HTML or visualforce which is quite time consuming and requires some technical knowledge.

Our Solution – BeeFree to the rescue

BeeFree is actually a third party app offered by MailUp. It provides you the easiest, quickest way to design elegant, mobile responsive emails. All we did was integrate it with Salesforce and now all you need to do is install the app and in a few simple steps all of you’re users (no coding required) can get access to the editor which will allow them to quickly create an awesome looking email template. Once you’re done, you can now use it with workflows, mass emails or however you like! And best of all, as the name implies, it’s free 🙂

Features

  1. It features a drag-and-drop interface that enables anyone to create a beautiful email message.
  2. It creates emails that adapt automatically to small screens, such as that of a smartphone.
  3. Once the message has been created, you can be preview, test, and save it as a custom email template.
  4. It allows you to access Merge fields inside the Editor.
  5. Save Special Links to be used directly by dragging them in to the Editor
  6. You can use BeeFree Email templates with Mass Emails.

Here is the link – https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N4V00000DZQiVUAX and just so you know, we are currently in the middle of the Security Review process so we should be listed publicly soon. And this one is for the community, thank you for you’re awesome reviews, it keeps us going 🙂