Working with email drafts

Wild Apricot lets you save an email you are working on so you may finish it or send it at a later time.

Creating Email Drafts

Email drafts are created by simply saving an email you are currently working on. For instructions on how to create an email, see Sending email blasts. To save the email as a draft, click on [Save and close].

Find and Edit Saved Drafts

Your saved drafts can be found by going to Settings > Emails > Email drafts. Click on the email to resume editing it.

Sending Email Drafts

You can send an email draft in two ways. The first way is to select the email by going to Settings > Emails > Email drafts and then send it as you would any other email. This will send the email to contacts originally selected when you created the draft.

Another way to send it is by going to the Contacts or Members tab and find the set of members you want to send the draft to (as when sending a new email) and then click [Email contacts] or [Email members]. This is what you will see on the next screen:

Choose to use a saved draft then click Next to see this screen:

Here you can choose whether to send it to the currently selected list of recipients or to the list of recipients that was saved with the draft. Below that you can select the draft email you want to use in the table (the selected row will become highlighted) and click the [Next] button to proceed to edit the email.

In the table you will see the following information:

• Date - The date the draft was created
• Subject - The subject line of the email draft
• Created by - Who created the email draft (and their email address)

After selecting the email and proceeding to the next screen you are given the opportunity to make changes to the email before you send it. Once you send an email using a draft, that message no longer shows up as a draft email. It can be found on the list of previously sent emails.

See also

• Sending email blasts
• Contact Email Settings and Email Log