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The
e-Birthday Letter
To Place an
Order Create a New Account
or Log-in
Price
only $.07 per email including data
storage/warehouse.
Billed Monthly based on e-Birthday
Letters sent.
* For your convenience the Customers database is used
for the e-Birthday Letter
as well as for the e-News
Letter. You only maintain one central database.
The Personal Touch. Start Making the Difference Now!
Everybody loves to be remembered in their
birthday. Just the fact that you remember means a
lot to your customers.
The e-Birthday Letter is send via email to your
customers. You can personalize the body of the message
with any of client database fields such as: Salutation,
Name, Last Name, Address, etc. You decide what and where
to locate the fields in the e-Birthday Letter message
body.
You
can include in your Birthday Letters, logos, images, hyper
links to your own site pages and email links at no
cost.
You
can send to us your e-Birthday Letter template in the following
formats: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, html or just plain text. At no cost we
will convert your news letter material to email format.
You
can send us your customer profiles in MS Excel, DBase
or MS Access. We will import them at no cost.
You can maintain your contact list on-line
(add, delete, modify, activate or inactivate).
Instructions:
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Create
a New Account, this is the first step to access
or order any of the services.
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Log-In
with the user-id and password you specified. This
will redirect you to the management menu where you
can maintain your account and order any of the
services.
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Once
you are in the Management Menu, select the e-Birthday
Letter option to display the
e-Birthday Letters sub-menu options.
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In
the e-Birthday Letters Sub-Menu, select Customers
Database Setup. (Only the first time.)
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In
the e-Birthday Letter Sub-Menu, select Send Customers
Database, to send us your customers database or
updates.
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Select
Maintain Customers Database, to maintain your
customer records on-line. (add, delete, modify,
activate or inactivate)
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Select
the Send e-Birthday Letter material, to send us your
birthday letter format by email. You can send us your
birthday Letter format in Ms. Word, MS Excel, MS Power
Point, plain text or html.
Downloads
In order to
facilitate to you the upload of your customer records
you can download from here a blank database with the
customer record pre-defined. You can also create your
own format (see record format below).
MS
Excel 2000 Customer Record Format
MS
Access 2000 Customer Record Format
Dbase III Customer Record Format
Accepted
Formats for Contacts Import
| Data
Source |
Version
or Format Supported |
| Microsoft
Access database |
2.0,
7.0/95, 8.0/97, 9.0/2000 |
| Microsoft
Access project |
9.0/2000 |
| dBASE |
III,
III+, IV, and 5 |
| Paradox,
Paradox for Windows |
3.x,
4.x, and 5.0 |
| Microsoft
Excel spreadsheets |
3.0,
4.0, 5.0, 7.0/95, 8.0/97, and 9.0/2000 |
| Lotus
1-2-3 spreadsheets |
.wks,
.wk1, .wk3, and .wk4 |
| Microsoft
Exchange |
All
versions |
| Delimited
text files |
All
character sets |
| Fixed-width
text files |
All
character sets |
Contact Records
- File Format
| Description |
Field Name |
Type |
Length |
Merge
Characters |
Comments &
Examples |
| Account
Number |
ehc_acct |
Numeric |
15 |
*AC |
Your
E-HospitalityCentral Account Number. |
| Contact
ID |
contact_id |
Text |
15 |
*CI |
Your
Customer ID. Used by e-HospitalityCentral to
identify your contact record. |
| Company
Name |
company_na |
Text |
30 |
*CN |
|
| Title |
title |
Text |
30 |
*TI |
President,
General Mgr. |
| Salutation |
salutation |
Text |
10 |
*SA |
Mr. Ms. Engineer
Judge Professor |
| First
Name |
first_name |
Text |
20 |
*FN |
|
| Last
Name |
last_name |
Text |
20 |
*LN |
|
| Address
Line 1 |
address_1 |
Text |
30 |
*A1 |
|
| Address
Line 2 |
address_2 |
Text |
30 |
*A2 |
|
| City |
city |
Text |
30 |
*CI |
|
| State |
state |
Text |
2 |
*ST |
|
| Zip Code |
zip_code |
Text |
15 |
*ZC |
|
| Country
Code |
coutry_co |
Text |
2 |
*CC |
Based
on ISO 2 Letter Codes |
| Tel.
Country Code |
tel_ctry_c |
Text |
6 |
*TC |
|
| Tel.
Area Code |
tel_area_c |
Text |
6 |
*TA |
|
| Tel.
Number |
tel_number |
Text |
10 |
*TN |
|
| Fax
Country Code |
fax_ctry_c |
Text |
6 |
*FC |
|
| Fax Area Code
|
fax_area_c |
Text |
6 |
*FA |
|
| Fax
Number |
fax_number |
Text |
10 |
*FN |
|
| Birth
Date |
birth_date |
Date or
Text |
8 |
*BD |
Example:
10/25/57 |
| Email |
email |
Text |
60 |
*EM |
|
| Contact
Type1 |
contact_t1 |
Text |
10 |
*T1 |
User can
define usage of this field.
Used as part of the
selection criteria when sending the e-News Letter. |
| Contact
Type 2 |
Contact_t2 |
Text |
10 |
*T2 |
User can
define usage of this field.
Used as part of the
selection criteria when sending the e-News Letter. |
| Contact
Type 3 |
Contact_t3 |
Text |
10 |
*T3 |
Used as part of the
selection criteria when sending the e-News Letter. |
| Language |
language |
Text |
3 |
*LA |
User can
define usage of this field.
Examples:
ENG=English or
1=English or
E=English |
| Member
ID |
member_id |
Text |
15 |
*MI |
User can
define usage of this field |
| Geographic
Area |
geo_area |
Text |
1 |
*GA |
Example:
1 The Americas
2 Europe, Middle East and Africa
3 Asia, Australia and Oceania
* User can define their own
Geographic Areas |
| Contact
Record Status |
rec_status |
Text |
1 |
*CS |
(A)ctive (I)native (D)elete
If status not specified (A)ctive status will be
considered. |
*
Notes: All fields are optional except for Contact ID.
Merge fields are substituted with information from the
customer record.
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