The Send a Notification Email action allows you to send an email to the Pinpointe account's owner (user) or any sub-user (Fig 1).
Fig 1
The action can be triggered as the first action after a contact enters the Journey's funnel or as the result of another action.
To create the notification email to send, click the Send a Notification Email action node once you have added it to the Journey work area. Doing so will bring up the Properties popup on the right-hand side of the screen (Fig 2):
Fig 2
There are several input fields below the "Send a Notification Email" label:
Account User shows a list consisting of the account owner and any sub-users. Select the one you wish the notification email to go to.
Subject gives the email a subject line.
Content: Insert Variable allows you to select and add a variabalized text string based on a Pinpointe-provided field, such as %%emailaddress%%.
Content: Insert Customfields sllows you to select and add a variable text string based on one of your custom fields assigned to the target database, such as %%First-Name%%, assuming that is a custom field you have added to this database.
Email Work Area allows you to create the email content (Fig 3).
Fig 3
Send-From Email will initially autofill after you select the recipient based on the account settings for that recipient where you can specify the send-from email address for the email.
Send-From Name will initially autofill after you select the recipient based on the account settings for that recipient where you can specify the send-from name for the email.
Reply-To Email will initially autofill after you select the recipient based on the account settings for that recipient where you can specify the reply-to email address for the email.
Once you have finished with the email setup, click the Save Properties button.
Shown below are all current Actions. To learn more how different Actions work, click on the Action name below to read the associated article.