Outgoing Emails
  • 01 Dec 2022
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Article Summary

Emails sent to your customers can be found in the Outgoing Emails tab on the Communications screen. This includes emails sent manually as well as the automated emails sent out via Collection Paths.

Navigating to Communications > Outgoing EmailsClicking the bell icon in the top-right menu bar will navigate to the Communications screen. From here, click on Outgoing Emails to see a central view of all your sent emails.

Communications For All Companies
If you have multiple companies in Credit Hound, the emails displayed here will be from across all companies. This means you do not have to log into each company to see the email responses from your customers.

Outgoing Emails Grid

In the Communications screen, the Outgoing Emails grid displays the list of emails sent to your customers.

OutgoingEmailsGrid2

The columns in the grid are as follows:

Column NameDescription
ToShows the customer, name and email address that the email has been sent to.
SubjectDetails the subject line and the first few lines of the email body text.
DateThe date the email was sent.
StatusThis current status of the email in it's journey to the customer. See Email Statuses for more information on the different statuses.
ActionContains the actions Open Email which opens the details of the email and Archive Emails. See Archived Emails for more information on archiving and restoring emails.
Related Transactions
If the email sent via Credit Hound was linked to transactions, then those related transactions will show in this section, beneath the body of the email.

Sorting

Clicking on the Date column name will sort the email list in ascending order (unless this column is already in ascending order, then it will change the sort to descending order). Clicking on the Date column name a second time will sort it in descending order (unless it is already in descending order, then it will switch it to ascending order).

The small up/down arrows icon is displayed on the current sort column. If the column is sorted in ascending order, then the arrow pointing up is highlighted black. If the column is sorted in descending order, then the column pointing down is highlighted black.

Filtering

The Outgoing Emails grid has very powerful filter options available. Data in the list can be filtered by clicking the Filter button located to the top-right of the grid. This will enable the filter boxes underneath the column names.

Click inside the relevant filter box and type in the value you want to filter by. Clicking the drop-down arrow to the right of each filter allows you to choose how that filter will be applied.

OutgoingEmailsGrid_FiltersFiltered Outgoing Emails

Clicking on the filtered column for Date will bring up a date picker.

DateFilter

Select the date you want to filter on. You can also combine this with the filter option by clicking the drop-down arrow to the right. For example, After April 4, 2022 will list emails after this date.

You can find further information on general filtering of grids at Sorting, Filtering and Exporting.

View Sent Emails

To open up an email, click the Open Email link in the Action column. A dialog box will appear with full email details.

View Email

Outgoing emails are tracked and their statuses updated throughout their journey to the customer. The Timeline displays the journey that the email has been through as well as the recipient's interaction with the email, once it has been received by the customer. See Email Statuses for more information about the various statuses that Credit Hound reports back.

Note: These emails will also appear in the Activity View on the Customer Screen.

Resending Emails

  1. Open an email by clicking on the Open Email link in the Action column.
  2. The Send Email dialog box appears.
  3. Click Resend.

The Activity View on the Customer Screen is also updated with details of the email sent.

Forwarding Emails

  1. Open an email by clicking on the Open Email link in the Action column.
  2. The Send Email dialog box appears.
  3. Click Forward.
  4. The email editor opens allowing you to add any details above the forwarded email
  5. Click Send to forward the email to other recipients.