A feed is the set of rules that tells Mass Email Notifications how to build and send a batch. Creating one only takes a few minutes.
Steps to Create a Feed #
- Go to the Form: Open the Gravity Form you’ll use as your control or trigger form.
- Add a New Feed: Under Form Settings → Mass Notifications, click Add New.
- Name / Label: Give the feed a clear name. You can even use merge tags (e.g., include today’s date from the form entry) so each batch is easy to recognize.
- Deduplication: Decide whether to allow duplicate emails or limit each recipient to the most recent entry. Most users keep dedupe enabled to avoid sending the same person multiple copies.
- Target Form: Pick the form that holds the recipients you want to reach. The plugin will pull emails from this form’s entries.
- Email Field: Choose the email field in the target form. This tells the feed where to look for addresses.
- Message Template: Select a Gravity Forms notification to use as the email content, or build your own template from scratch. You can include merge tags from both the control form and the target form.
Tips #
- Clear Labels: Use descriptive names so you know at a glance what each feed does (e.g., “Donor Updates – Monthly”).
- Test First: Start with a small batch or a dummy target form to confirm your setup before sending widely.
- Conditional Logic: Refine who gets included by setting conditions in the feed. For example, send only to entries where “Membership = Active.”
Once saved, your feed is ready. Submitting the connected control form will now create a batch based on these settings.
