Message Templates keep getting better

CiviCRMs Message Templates features make it pretty easy to customize many of the automated emails that CiviCRM sends: contribution receipts, event confirmations, etc.

It's a great feature. But editing them can be tricky, and any customizations you make might need to be adjusted when you upgrade.

Fortunately, recent improvements are making those things easier. Now you can:

• Easily preview your changes before saving them, so you can quickly get a good idea how they'll look for your constituents.

• Easily add your organization's logo and branding at the top of all message templates, with the site-wide Message Header token. This removes the need to edit Message Templates directly (and to manally update those modifications at upgrade time) in order merely to add a logo.

• Easily see the difference between the default version and your modified version, with the "Show diff" button. This is a big help at upgrade time.

All of the above, plus a few more goodies, are available in versions 5.76 and above.

You can try these out on the live CiviCRM demo sites for Drupal and for WordPress).

And if they sound useful to you, it might be a good reason to upgrade.

All the best,
A.