Bulk text mail to customer

symas

Hi Experts,

one of my client is asking for Bulk mail.
Like send greeting of new year to all customers and they have more then 10K+ customers.
Any idea how i start development into this?
Thanks

Slawek_Guzek

So you have started already - you do have a bulk mailing service in place.

Your part now is to learn how you can send the data to this service. What do they accept - a file (csv? XML, other), a web service call, etc. You need to know that first to make any decisions as for how to do it in NAV.

For start look into contact management in NAV. Contacts, segments, interaction log entries etc. I'd be looking into tapping my code somewhere in this part of the system. How and where exactly - this depends on the data receiving side, what do they need.

Slawek_Guzek

If it is a one-off mailing don't develop it - use specialized companies which will do this for your customer - I mean send the mass emailing out

At least your client will not risk that his email domain ends up on some blacklist...

If you are a partner this is what sometimes reliable partners do - show the customer a better way, if they won't profit monetary-wise from it.

symas

Hi @Slawek_Guzek thanks for reply,
ya there is spam block chances, But client already bought a bulk mailing service.
can you suggest ahead

Slawek_Guzek

So you have started already - you do have a bulk mailing service in place.

Your part now is to learn how you can send the data to this service. What do they accept - a file (csv? XML, other), a web service call, etc. You need to know that first to make any decisions as for how to do it in NAV.

For start look into contact management in NAV. Contacts, segments, interaction log entries etc. I'd be looking into tapping my code somewhere in this part of the system. How and where exactly - this depends on the data receiving side, what do they need.

symas

@Slawek_Guzek thanks for the suggestion, i will plan and work on it.