Importing Emails and Templates from .ZIP Files

If you have an email that was designed outside of SharpSpring, you can import these directly into the SharpSpring Email Designer. This article will show how to import emails and templates from .ZIP files. Article Contents Creating .ZIP Files Importing Emails via .ZIP Files Importing Email Templates via .ZIP Files Resolving .ZIP Title Errors			Available with:
			Marketing Automation	✓
			CRM Ultimate	✓
			CRM PRO	✓
			CRM Free	✓
			Toolbar:
			Users:
			Administrators	✓
			Company Managers	✓
			Marketing Managers	✓
			Sales Managers
			Salespersons
			Jr. Salespersons

Creating .ZIP Files

To import emails, you have to have the HTML of that email in a .ZIP file.

1. Save the HTML of your email as index.html.
2. Place your index.html file in a folder, along with any images for that email.
3. Depending on your operating system, do the following to the folder:
   
   

   Mac:		Right-click > Compress.
   Windows:		Right-click > Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder.

Regarding Images in .ZIP Files

When creating .ZIP files, images should be in the root folder of your .ZIP file along with your index.html file. If the images are not in the root folder, they should be in a subfolder. Within the email's .HTML code, each image should be referred to as its name and subfolder alone.

For example, if your image is mypic.jpg in the root folder, your image element would need to be
<img src="mypic.jpg">. SharpSpring will store the image and replace it with a link to the image stored on the server. If it is in a folder called images, you'd need to refer to it as
<img src="images/mypic.jpg">.

In addition, if you use images in an email imported from a .ZIP file, the images must be in the .ZIP file. This means that you cannot refer to external images.

Importing Emails via .ZIP Files

To import emails, do the following:

A message will appear at the top of the screen letting you know the import is processing. Once the import is complete, you will receive an email containing a preview of the email you imported with the .ZIP file.

Importing Email Templates via .ZIP Files

To import templates, do the following:

A message will appear at the top of the screen letting you know the import is processing. Once the import is complete, you will receive an email containing a preview of the template you imported with the .ZIP file.

Resolving .ZIP Title Errors

If you receive the error titled Your file must contain a file named index.html, you must rename the .HTML file to index.html. Imported .ZIP files must be UTF-8 encoded. The .ZIP upload feature in SharpSpring looks for the word index. If the file is named improperly, then the import will fail.

To resolve this issue, do the following:  

1. Unzip the .ZIP file that contains the HTML email.
2. Find the target .HTML file.
3. Rename the target .HTML file to index.html.
4. Zip up the file.
5. Upload the file.