Setup your account

How to setup your account and contact information

In this section, learn how to:

Setup your account information

  1. Click the gear icon at the top-right of your screen and select Account information.


     
  2. Make the necessary changes in the correct fields. 

  3. Don’t forget to save your changes at the bottom of the page!

Main contact information

Enter the contact details of the main contact for your account. This information is only visible to users in your account and is helpful to our team. Your contacts will never see this information.

Language

Select the language in which you'd prefer to receive our communications.

Time Zone

Select your local Time zone in the drop down list to schedule your mailings at the preferred moment.

Business details (Optional)

These informations are not mandatory. These data only help us to provide features and content adapted to your needs and will never be divulged to third-parties.

Setup your contact information (in your email footer)

To setup your contact information:

At the top of the Account Information page, click Email footer. You can also access this section by clicking Icone Settings > Email footer.

  • The contact details entered in that section will appear in the footer of your emails and will be used to properly identify your company.
  • These informations are necessary to be CASL compliant. CASL came into force on July 1st 2014.
  • The name written down in the "Company" field will, by default, be used as the Sender in the inbox of your contacts. The email in the "Email" field will be used as the default return address. Both of these informations can be changed when scheduling your email, as needed.
  • Once this is done, you never should change these informations unless your offices have moved or changed their contact information. Contact our customer service if you have further questions about this matter.

I’m Self-employed…should I write down a postal address?

Yes. CASL requires a postal address as part of a proper identification. You can, however, use a postal box if you possess one and want to avoid writing your home address in the footer of your emails.

Setup your sender addresses

To set up your sender addresses, go to IconeSettings > Sender addresses.

Learn more about sender addresses >

Setup your payment information

To set up your payment information or change your billing contact's information, go to IconeSettings > Configure payment information.

Subscribe to system notifications

You can subscribe to receive these types of notifications:

Allow us to send you valuable and important information about your account by email by configuring your notifications. These email addresses will never be visible to people receiving your email.

To do so:

  1. Click the gear icon at the top-right of your screen and select Notifications.


     
  2. Enter the appropriate email address in the desired fields.
  3. Click "Save".

We suggest you subscribe to these notifications (especially the new subscription alert) but know that it’s not required since the information is also kept in your account as long as your account is active and your contacts are kept in it. Leave the fields blank if you don’t want to receive notifications.

Keep in mind the addresses you’ll use are at risk of receiving a high volume of emails, especially if you promote your subcription forms. Make sure your email administor has been made aware. In some email softwares, such as Outlook, you can set up rules to sort automatically these emails in folders in order to keep them out of your inbox.

Email address to receive the consent confirmation emails

There is a link available for your recipient to confirm their consent in our consent block and templates. A confirmation email will be sent to the person clicking that specific link. Put an address in this field to receive a copy of the email sent to your contact.
 
This feature is currently deactivated and will be completely removed on December 1, 2023. You can still view the list of consents in the Contacts section. Learn how

Email address to receive a notification when there is a new subscription

Enter an address in this field to receive an email notification when a new subscriber completes the subscription process from a form generated in your account.
 

Email address to receive the monthly Consent expiration report

On the first day of each month, we’ll send a consent expiration report to the address entered in this field. Here is the information found on the report :
  • Total of contacts in your account;
  • Total of express consents;
  • Total of implied consents;
  • Total of contacts without a consent expiration date;
  • Expired implied consents;
  • Implied consents expiring during the upcoming month.
This report will allow you to plan ahead your marketing strategies to renew implied consents before expiration or convert them to express consents before they expire. It’s important to keep in mind that, in compliance to CASL, it is prohibited to send commercial communications to email addresses with an expired implied consent.

You therefore need to take full advantage of the period of time the consent is still valid to obtain an express consent from your customer. A few tools, such as our consent blocks and marketing automation consent campaign scenarios, are offered to help you achieve this goal.

Note that there is no action done by the system to clean your list of expired consents. Each of our customers is at discretion of taking the appropriate actions to manage the consent expiration properly.
 

Also, it's important to know that the system can only calculate the expiry date for implied consents if you have defined a consent date and source in your contact profile. To learn how to update your contact's consent and learn more about the sources of consent available in the app, click here.

The list of contacts with expired implied consents and consent expiring within the upcoming 30 days are available at any given time on your Dashboard. Under the "Number of contacts" box, you will find the number of expired consents and the number of consents expiring in less than a month. For each of these categories, click the link available to see the contacts involved. You will then have access to action features such as deleting contacts or adding them to a group.

To stop receiving the monthly consent expiration report:

It’s not mandatory to receive this report. You can subscribe to it or remove your address at any given time. 

  1. Click the gear icon at the top-right of your screen and select Notifications.


     
  2. Remove the email address found in the field under the "Receive monthly consent expiration report",
  3. Click the "Save" button on the bottom of the page to save your changes.

How to add, edit or delete custom fields

There are fields already assigned to specific informations in your contact details:

  • First name
  • Last name;
  • Company;
  • Language;
  • Gender;
  • Postal Code;
  • Country;
  • Birthdate;
  • Consent information (source, date and proof of consent).

Along with these default fields, you can add 5 to 30 custom fields to enter information relevant to your customers or company. Label these fields to remember the use type of information you wish to collect (e.g.: the "Custom field 1" could be for the client number your contact is related to, the "Custom field 2" could be used for their phone number…). 

The content of these fields could be used to personalize your mailings and segment your contacts. You can also add these fields in your subscription forms to collect more information about your subscribers.

Learn more about custom fields >

To access the custom fields section:

  1. Click the gear icon at the top-right of your screen and select Custom fields.

Enter default links for your social networks icons

  1. Click the gear icon at the top-right of your screen and select Social networks.


     
  2. Paste the URL to your social media profile in the appropriate field. Click here to find out how to find your social network profile URL.
     
  3. Click the "Save" button on the bottom of the page to save your changes.

Entering your social networks in your settings will save you time while editing your templates if you use the "Social media" block. The URL for the fields in the bar will already be populated with the information you entered in your settings. All that will be left for you to do will be to select the icons you wish to show and the icon style you favor. To learn more, click here.

Note: while editing your template, it is possible to change the link to your social media profiles. However, this action will not be duplicated in your settings!

Setup other display options

Learn how to:

Add your logo

  1. Click the gear icon at the top-right of your screen and select More options.


     
  2. Click Choose to add your logo (see below for explanations about the available options).
  3. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to save the changes.

About the logo

Add your company logo to display on default pages generated by the application and automated emails for subscriptions, unsubscription and consent confirmation.

Note: you can’t edit the size of your logo. Make sure your logo has the right proportions before uploading it. We suggest a width of 200 px or more to ensure a good image quality (If bigger, your logo will be resized to this width). Supported formats are as followed: gif, png and jpg.

Change the colour of your subscription email button

  1. Click the gear icon at the top-right of your screen and select More options.


     
  2. Open the buttons' color picker dropdown to change the colour. You can either enter an hexadecimal code or click in the color picker to choose a colour. 


     
  3. Don't forget to save your changes.

Remove our logo from your email footer

This option is only available for Pro plan. 

To remove our logo from your email footer:

  1. Go to IconeSettings > (Email content)  Email footer.
  2. Turn off the switch to hide our logo.
  3. Don't forget to save the changes.

After you activate the switch, wait a few minutes before sending an email. This will make sure the logo will be removed from the footer of your next communication.

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