Functionality to generate physical letters
My organization is not going to go entirely digital. I need to generate the occasional physical letter. The idea is that in addition to being able to generate ad-hoc emails, I want to be able to generate ad-hoc physical mailings. But they are not really ad-hoc; they correspond to points in my organization's processes that do not map to WildApricot. I want to store templates for these letters in WildApricot; when the need arises, I would like to be able to ask WildApricot to instantiate a template I pick for a member I pick. I can do the printing and phyiscal mailing myself, I am just looking for a bit of automation in producing the formatted text of the letter (using macros to automatically populate the letter with the right information).
mspreitz
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[Deleted User]
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Check out lob.com maybe integrate with that?
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Brandon Longley
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Hi there,
It seems that the functionality of printing email templates still isn't available.
What I would like to do is similar to how you can reprint invoices and payment receipts, but instead with emails from a contact's email log (membership activation) or email templates.
I could imagine it would happen like a print preview. I understand that most users will receive email copies however a large majority of them prefer to have a physical copy of proof of membership.
Is this possible?
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy
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This is probably to be covered with so called "Newsletter templates" feature we're planning to release in 2012 Q2 - see http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308920-archive/suggestions/8832034-email-templates-3194 .
Main part of the change will be ability to use predefined templates when sending email to a member or list of members - including usage of macro.
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Richard Clayton
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Yes, count me in for that too, we have a few members who insist on having mail rather than email.
Thanks, Richard.
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Evgeny Zaritovskiy
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Thanks for comments, they look quite reasonable. Unfortunately this is not in our current plans for 2011 but we will keep looking after this thread.
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MLAEliza
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I agree completely. Sometimes I have to send physical letters or membership cards and I would LOVE to be able to do that within wild apricot rather than having to export or copy past the member's data to a word processing document.
