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Start Sending Emails

Download Mail Designer 365 for Mac and follow the 10 steps below to start sending emails to your audience:

1. Create a design

Open Mail Designer 365 on your Mac. Go to Design Ideas in the sidebar and choose your favorite design to get started. Today, we're going for a cat-themed email 😸

2. Preview your work

Click the Crew Chat icon in the Mail Designer 365 toolbar.

Now type in a name like "My first design in Crew Chat".
A window will open with a preview of your latest design version.

3. Start chatting

See the chat box in the bottom right of the Crew Chat window? Try it out by writing yourself a message about your design. Click the buttons to approve or decline.

4. Share your design with others
It's time to show off your work! Click "Invite" in the top right corner to share your design with someone else.
Now enter an email address to send your first invitation.
5. Time to test!
Switch back to the Mail Designer 365 app and hit the Test icon in the toolbar to send yourself a dry run of your email.

Once you’ve sent your test email, look out for the verification email in your inbox. This confirms the email address belongs to you. Click the link and you’re ready to start sending for real later!

6. Let's add some contacts!

Who shall we send our first email to? If you're not sure at the moment, copy these email addresses – they're ours and you're free to use them to try out Mail Designer 365 Delivery!


Add new contacts by clicking Contacts in the Mail Designer 365 toolbar.

A new window will open. Paste email addresses into the address box to make up your first audience. Add your own email addresses too, if you like!

Now let's say all the new contacts you've added are cat lovers. Make a note of this by assigning them an attribute.

Try it out: Just enter "Interest" into the attribute field and click on "Create". To show they are interested in cats, enter "Cats" and click on "Create".

You can also attach further values to an existing attribute category to represent different interests – for example, "Dogs", "Reptiles", etc.

Finally, click on "Add contacts".

7. Calling all cat lovers

Your cat-themed campaign is bound to be a hit for your cat loving contacts, but for dog lovers and other contacts? Maybe not so much. Let's set up your first audience to consist only of cat fans.

Get started in the Audiences tab:

Create a new audience – let's call them "Cat Lovers". Pick out all the contacts interested in cats by choosing the "Interest" attribute you created earlier and selecting "Cats".

8. Prepare for takeoff

Let your recipients know an email is from you by updating your from address:

You’ll already see the email address you verified earlier. Now enter the name you want your recipients to see – i.e. your full name or company name.

9. 🔥 You're ready to send your first email!
Now it's time to create a new campaign:

To get started, go to the design you built in Mail Designer 365 and choose Start Campaign:

Next, choose your Audience. Here you will see the Cat Lovers target group you added earlier.

Now choose when to send your campaign: Send now or schedule for later.

Happy with your campaign settings? Select "Queue this mailing for delivery" and hit Review to go to the next step. Otherwise, you'll see the save option so you can come back to your campaign later.

Ready to go? Click the green button, you know you want to!

10. Way to go – you've sent your first email!

How did your mailing do? Open the analytics view and take a look around.
This is the place to come to monitor deliveries, email opens and clicks. For a test campaign, expect initial results like this:
However, once you really get started, get used to views like this:
Tip: If you added yourself as an email contact, try clicking on one of the links in the email and you'll see your click appear in realtime!
Congratulations, you're now ready to start sending emails! 🎉

Start FREE and customize for your needs

All Mail Designer 365 design plans come with free Delivery features to help you get started. Ready to bring your whole team on board? Check out all options below:


Neuschwanstein

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  • Free
    included in Design Plan
  • 20 Contacts
  • 100 Email Stamps
  • 2 TeamCloud Designs
  • 1 From: Address
per month $20


Rome

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  • $10.00
    per month
  • 500 Contacts
  • 5,000 Email Stamps
  • 40 TeamCloud Designs
  • 5 From: Addresses
per month $20
Try free for 7 days

Paris

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  • $20.00
    per month
  • 1,500 Contacts
  • 15,000 Email Stamps
  • 80 TeamCloud Designs
  • 5 From: Addresses
per month $20
Try free for 7 days

London

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  • $35.00
    per month
  • 2,500 Contacts
  • 25,000 Email Stamps
  • 160 TeamCloud Designs
  • 5 From: Addresses
per month $20
Try free for 7 days

Capetown

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  • $55.00
    per month
  • 5,000 Contacts
  • 50,000 Email Stamps
  • 200 TeamCloud Designs
  • 20 From: Addresses
per month $20
Try free for 7 days

Seoul

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  • $75.00
    per month
  • 10,000 Contacts
  • 100,000 Email Stamps
  • 250 TeamCloud Designs
  • Edit links after sending
per month $20
Try free for 7 days
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Terms & conditions
Do I need HTML knowledge to create attractive emails with Mail Designer and integrate them into FileMaker?
No.
What is the Mail Designer 365 FileMaker Integration API?
Regularly sending booking confirmations, quotes, invoices, welcome emails? Use the API to seamlessly integrate Mail Designer 365 with your FileMaker database and send flawlessly designed transactional email templates to customers, clients, and staff – directly from FileMaker.
I’m a FileMaker developer creating custom solutions for my clients. How can I use Mail Designer 365 to offer attractive HTML emails directly from my FileMaker solution?
You need a Mail Designer 365 Design License to create email templates for your clients. You set up a separate project in Mail Designer 365 for each client and manage their templates there. If a client wants to regularly customize the templates themselves, they will also need a Design License.
For sending emails, each of your clients requires their own Mail Designer Sending License. Every client must have their own Mail Designer 365 sending plan.
Our current email integration hard-codes the template into the scripts—every change requires a developer. How does it work with the Mail Designer integration?
With Mail Designer 365, that’s a thing of the past. Design updates can be made anytime directly by your marketing or design team—no developers, no coding. Your API or FileMaker solution simply references the Mail Designer template ID. Just open Mail Designer 365, make your changes (logos, texts, seasonal elements), save—and you’re done. That’s modern, efficient collaboration.
Which kinds of emails can I send using the Mail Designer 365 FileMaker Integration API?
The API is super versatile and lends itself to a number of professional use cases. If you are regularly sending transactional emails such as order confirmations, reservation details, welcome emails, appointment reminders, invoices, quotes, portfolios, etc., you can easily utilise the Mail Designer 365 FileMaker API to save time and send beautifully designed emails directly from your FileMaker database.

The API documentation can be found here:
https://my.maildesigner365.com/docs/api
Which Mail Designer 365 license do I need for the FileMaker Integration API?
A Mail Designer 365 Design License is required to create the templates.
A Mail Designer 365 Campaigns Plan is needed to send emails later from your Filemaker solution.
Does the Mail Designer 365 FileMaker Integration API work on iPhone and iPad?
Yes, you can try out the integration in the FileMaker Go iOS app to send emails using your iPhone or iPad.
How does the integration work with FileMaker?
Create a FileMaker string with all your existing database variables so they correspond with the placeholders in your Mail Designer 365 template. Then, relay these to the FileMaker send script (cURL-based) to enable one-click emails directly from your records. It's that easy!
I’d like to test Mail Designer 365 together with the API integration / FileMaker API integration. Is there a trial license available?
All our licenses include a free 7-day trial – perfect for exploring all features at your own pace and making a well-informed decision.

Visit our Mail Designer 365 Store.

I have questions about the Mail Designer 365 API integration. Who can I contact?
We’re happy to assist with any questions or feedback via our support form.
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