Emailing clients is a great way to keep in touch, alert them of upcoming sales or drive in new consignments. Even if your consignment software supports sending emails directly from within itself, once you try to send multiple, identical or similar emails, you’re at risk of being blocked as SPAM.
A client recently inquired as to how to send emails to clients in her Consignment Success database. If you’re sending more than 100 emails, The Computer Peeps recommend a bulk email service such as Constant Contact or MailChimp.
Starting at the Consignor list, you have a list of all of your consignor accounts…
If we click the Consignor Reports button, we’re presented with a way to select all or specific accounts, as well as a way to export to a format acceptable for Constant Contact…
We’re then given a file that contains the accounts we’ve exported…
This file can be utilized with email services such as Constant Contact and MailChimp. In our example above, we exported a file of all accounts. Emailing ‘all’ accounts might be good in the event of a big sale or event. You could export just consignors that haven’t consigned since last year (encouraging them to bring in new items).
Dean
I am a Software Developer, System Administrator, and consignment software specialist. I currently manage hundreds of consignment workstations, point of sale systems, and database servers all across North America and I am the developer of Peeps' Software, Peeps2Go, and Peeps' Consignor Login for iOS and Android. I've been helping consignment & resale store-owners since 2003. I started The Computer Peeps in February of 2010. Peeps' Software launched in 2016 and is now on hundreds of systems all across North America. I have successfully converted dozens of stores from all of the major consignment software systems. After 20 years of working with consignment stores, I understand the unique challenges consignment & resale store-owners face. From electrical issues in old buildings or strip malls, to advocating for them when their old consignment software keeps crashing.