ActiveCampaign HTML email templates, checked before they land

What lands in ActiveCampaign

Publish creates an ActiveCampaign template with its subject line for each language you select. You find it in Templates in ActiveCampaign. Names follow a pattern such as {Template}_{LOCALE}, so October_update becomes October_update_EN and October_update_DE. You can rename each one in the dialog.

Pushing again updates the template with the same name, including its subject. Connecting takes your ActiveCampaign API URL (https://youraccount.api-us1.com) and API key. Sending, lists and scheduling stay in ActiveCampaign.

Checked against ActiveCampaign before the push

Once ActiveCampaign is your active ESP, the email template checker reads every language with ActiveCampaign’s syntax in mind. A missing unsubscribe tag is a blocker, not a footnote.

Unsubscribe tag

Looks for %UNSUBSCRIBELINK% or %UNSUBSCRIBEURL%. Missing means a blocker. Present but hidden or tiny is flagged as high risk.

Merge tags

ActiveCampaign tags such as %FIRSTNAME% are left alone. A tag written for a different ESP is flagged, because ActiveCampaign would print it as text.

Dead links

Every link is requested. A 404, 410, server error or timeout is a blocker.

Leftover tokens

A {{locale.*}} or {{theme.*}} token that did not resolve is a blocker. It would reach ActiveCampaign as raw text.

One HTML file, one ActiveCampaign template per language

The layout lives in one Shared HTML file. Copy, links, images and the subject change per language through {{locale.key}} tokens, edited in a grid or imported from Excel. That workflow has its own page: HTML email localization.

Compile turns each language into plain HTML. Publish then sends each one to ActiveCampaign as its own template. Fixing a link in the shared file fixes it in every language on the next push.

Each language arrives with its own subject

ActiveCampaign templates carry a subject. The push fills it from that language’s subject in EmailStitch, so the German template opens with the German subject.

Personalization tags such as %FIRSTNAME% and %UNSUBSCRIBELINK% pass through Compile untouched. ActiveCampaign fills them when the campaign sends.