Preview Your Campaign Content
You can test your merge tags before your campaign goes out with our pop up preview. Pop up preview is available on both the HTML and plain text versions of your campaign.
Test Merge Tags on Signup Forms
To run a test of the *|MERGE|* tags in the signup forms, you'll have to actually have to sign yourself or a test email address up to your list. See Example.
Troubleshooting
If your merge tags aren't working in the way you expected, there are some considerations.
- I only see << Test First Name >> << Test Last Name >>. Click on view live merge info on the pop up preview screen.
- Is the merge tag syntax correct? Check to see if you've surrounded your merge tag name with *| and |*. Use the pipe key to create |.
- No recipient data is being pulled in to my campaign. Different lists might have different merge tags, depending on how you setup each different signup form or set of list fields. Make sure you're using the corresponding merge tags for current list, otherwise your merge tags may not display correctly.
- Merge tags are case sensitive. Make sure your merge tag matches exactly what your cheatsheet says. Find your merge tags.
- Merge tags are style sensitive. If you're using a merge tag that involves variants like *|FACEBOOK:LIKE|* (separated by : or _ )make sure that FACEBOOK and LIKE aren't two different styles (like bold and default text). How to remove styles.
- There's no view live merge info button. How to fix it.
If you want to see merge tags IRL (in real life) or if it appears that the Merge tags are not working, you might consider sending a test campaign to a live list for further testing. To do so, make sure your email address is on your own list. Then you can segment your real list down to just you (or a couple of your email addresses) and send the campaign out to the small "segment" instead of using the send a test button. How can I segment a list?