I just set up my abandon cart email.

Question #1.. I was wondering, is there any way to make %abandonedcartid% into a button instead of the long link it is.

and
Question #2.. I was looking at a number of sample Abandon Carts online.... and most of them show you what was in the cart. Any change in a future update we could get %messagebody% as an option to use. Meaning showing the cart contents.



Scott

Hi, you should be able to do that with just a simple link html.

<a href="%abandonedcartid%">CLICK HERE OR SOME OTHER TEXT</a>

From there you can style that into a button

<a href="%abandonedcartid%"><button type="button">CLICK HERE OR SOME OTHER TEXT</button></a>

I'm not sure about the button tag working in emails. There are other ways to create that text into a button too.
I would opt for the short text link to be safe for all email clients.

Thanks,
David

David,

Thank you for your comments. I thought the same thing would work... however it does not because the %abandonedcartid% already has the <a href=" ..." a> tag in it. It needs to just be the actual link address and then it could be made into a link or a button. Maybe css would style the link to a button.... if I knew where insert the css at and so it would not mess up all my other links site wise.


But thanks for trying... appreciate it.

Scott

Hi Scott, I understand.
I'll check my test site and see what I come up with.

Thanks,
David

Hi, I tested the email as it, and got a url with no link, so I added the html and it worked perfectly.
However, I am using the html editor and the first time I tried it, It didn't work because I forgot to switch the html editor to source view.
Once I created the html properly, I got the button.





Check the source of your email. Here is what mine looks like

That seemed to work. Ok. Thank you

Scott

I guess I spoke to soon. For some reason I am seeing a colored button on my admin where you supply html code, but when I get the email I am not seeing a button... but rather just the text no button


Not all is lost as here is a link to your shopping cart:
CLICK HERE TO SEE MY CART


Scott

Hi Scott
I just tried here and it all seemed ok and I got a button just fine. Are you using an HTML editor? If so, are you entering the button code in code view?

Vince

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Yes, I'm in code view...

<p>
<a href="%abandonedcartid%">
<button style="background-color:#9a4ef1;" type="button">CLICK HERE TO SEE MY CART</button>
</a></p>

When i switch out of code view, I see a purple button. However, when i get an email on my phone or in outlook, it is just a blue link

I'm wondering if I already have some css file setting the button to no background and blue text.

Scott

Hi Scott
But it's a bit strange that it changes from a button to a link as I'm not sure that would happen via styling. Can you try replacing the message temporarily with something like just "abcdefg" to see if you are getting the right message? Also, make sure you are not making the changes for email 3 say when it is email 1 that you are receiving.

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I can't be sure the button tag is supported in all email clients.
It may be more reliable to use an image (of a button) and link that.

<a href="%abandonedcartid%"><img src="https://ww.yoursite.com/img/someimg.jpg"/></a>

David