Evites

Evites (electronic invitations) are an advanced feature that allows your site visitors to send a predefined message to their friends. Evites function largely like printed invitations, but offer the benefits of reduced cost and ease-of-use for the person sending the evite. In addition, the evite is delivered into the recipient's email inbox rather than into his or her postal mailbox.
 

Step by Step

1. To create an evite, navigate to the Email tab, then click on "Evites". This will display a list of all evites already available on your site.
   

2. To create a new evite, click the           Add Evite          button. To edit an existing evite, simply click the  Edit button next to the one you wish to edit.
   

3. Edit the fields of the evite.
   
    

   Title	Enter the title of this evite that will be shown to site visitors when they are considering sending the evite to a friend. This title will not be sent with the evite, but will only appear on your web site. This is a required field.
   Subtitle	Enter an optional subtitle for this evite that will be shown to site visitors when they are considering sending the evite to a friend. This subtitle will not be sent with the evite, but will only appear on your web site.
   Status	Any evite marked as "Active" will be accessible to site visitors. Evites marked as "Inactive" will remain in the list of evites, but will not be accessible except through Radius. This is a required field.
   Notes	Use this field for internal notes to help you and other site editors remember how this evite is used, who created, it, where linked files are located, etc. This field is not displayed anywhere other than in Radius.
   Expiration Date	An evite may be set to automatically expire. This is particularly useful for evites to a specific event (such as a concert, open house, etc.).
   Email Subject	Enter the subject of the email that will be sent to the friends of site visitors. Hint: Include your organization name so that recipients will have an idea what the email is about. For example: "Organization Name - Big Event Name"
   Message	Enter the content of the email that will be sent to the friends of site visitors. This will be generated as an HTML email, so feel free to include anything that you might include on a regular web page. Hint: Since email readers vary significantly and since user settings can easily disrupt complex layouts, keep this as simple as possible. For best results, a single image (JPG) containing all relevant information is recommended. You may also wish to provide 3-4 hyperlinks below the image for related information such as "driving directions," "visit our web site," etc. Using a table to position the elements in the evite can be helpful. Note: Your site visitors will also have opportunity to include a personal unique (text only) message which will be appended to the general message you create here.

    

4. When you are finished editing the evite, click Save . 

5. After saving an evite, it will appear on the Evites list and be available for use on your web site. To preview your evite, click "Preview".