Drag-and-drop email builder

The drag-and-drop email builder lets you design campaign and template emails visually, without code. Changes appear as you make them.

A local service business can use it for seasonal promotions, newsletters and appointment follow-ups that match the brand. Go to Marketing, then Emails, create an email, and drag elements from the Elements tab onto the canvas. Click any element to edit its content, style and settings, and drag elements to rearrange them.

Available elements include text, image, button, logo, divider, social icons, footer, custom code, video, products, image slider, FAQ, countdown timer, spacer, review link and forms. Forms work only where the recipient's email client supports them. A few worth knowing:

• Video: adds a clickable thumbnail with a play button that links to your YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia or HTML5 video, because email clients can't play embedded video.
• Social: adds icons linked to your profiles, with adjustable size, color and alignment.
• GIFs: add animated GIFs up to 10 MB from the media library, as an image or as a video thumbnail.

Text formatting covers headings, supported fonts, sizes from 8px to 96px, hex colors, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links and custom values. AI-assisted content generation can help you draft copy. Default padding is 12 top and bottom and 24 left and right, which you can change.

In the design editor, saved items let you store a header, footer or section and reuse it in other templates in the same account. Saved items aren't available in the AI editor. Autosave keeps your draft every 30 seconds. Elements are responsive by default, and a mobile view lets you adjust spacing and alignment for phones.

Adjust email layouts for mobile screens

Set separate mobile spacing, alignment and typography for supported email elements while keeping desktop styles. Preview both layouts and refine buttons, images and other content for smaller screens.