Personalization tags allow you to dynamically insert content into your communications, forms, and more. This creates a more personalized experience for your contacts and can lead to increased engagement with your content.
In this article, we'll discuss:
How personalization tags work
We automatically generate personalization tags for every custom field you create. In addition, your account comes with a list of standard personalization tags. Each of these tags can be inserted into your communications.
When a personalization tag is used in a campaign or automation email, the value of that tag will automatically be inserted once the communication is sent to a contact. When the contact opens the communication, they will see the value for that tag and not the tag itself.
For example, if you wanted to address contacts by their first name in an email, you would insert the following personalization tag:
%FIRSTNAME%
When a contact receives your email, they will see their own name populated in the message.
Ways to use personalization tags
Personalization tags can be used to insert dynamic content into each of the items listed below. Click the links below to learn more:
Content of campaigns and automation emails
For more information on using personalization tags in communications, check out these help articles:
How to modify personalization tags
Modifiers allow you to change the capitalization of your data when it is inserted into your campaign. This is useful for ensuring that proper nouns, such as names, are capitalized and common nouns, such as objects, aren’t, for example.
Modifiers are placed after a pipe symbol ( | ). So a first name personalization tag including a modifier to capitalize the first letter would look like this:
%FIRSTNAME|UPPERFIRST%
List of modifiers:
- UPPER (converts entire tag to all uppercase letters)
- UPPERFIRST (converts first letter to uppercase)
- UPPERWORDS (capitalizes the first letter of every word)
- TITLECASE (capitalizes the first letter of every word, and forces all other letters to be lowercase)
- LOWER (converts entire tag to lowercase letters)
- LOWERFIRST (changes the first letter of the text to lowercase)
- LOWERWORDS (changes the first letter of every word to lowercase)
List of standard personalization tags
Below is a list of personalization tags that you can use in your communications.
Note that this list does not include personalization tags for any custom fields you create.
| Description | Personalization Tag | Example Value |
| Email Address | %EMAIL% |
john@activecampaign.com |
| First Name | %FIRSTNAME% |
John |
| Last Name | %LASTNAME% |
Smith |
| Full Name | %FULLNAME% |
John Smith |
| Phone | %PHONE% |
555-666-7777 |
| Organization | %ORGANIZATION% |
ActiveCampaign |
| Date Subscribed | %SUBDATE% |
10/10/2011 |
| Time Subscribed | %SUBTIME% |
14:19:40 |
| Unsubscribe Link | %UNSUBSCRIBELINK% |
http://YOURACCOUNT.activehosted.com/box.php?nl=3&c=44&m=41&s=5cd0dc36f71e9bd4099f74e8bf64c51b&funcml=unsub2 |
| Web Copy | %WEBCOPY% |
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| Web Copy (no social links) | %WEBCOPY-NOSOCIAL% |
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| Update Subscription Account Link | %UPDATELINK% |
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| Send to Friend Link | %FORWARD2FRIEND% |
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| Deal Owner: First name (of most recent deal) | %DEAL_OWNER_FIRST_NAME% |
John |
| Deal Owner: Last name (of most recent deal) | %DEAL_OWNER_LAST_NAME% |
Smith |
| Deal Owner: Email address (of most recent deal) | %DEAL_OWNER_EMAIL% |
john@activecampaign.com |
| Unsubscribe Link (All Lists) Note: This personalization tag will add contacts to your Exclusion list, which will prevent them from re-subscribing to your list(s). |
%UNSUBSCRIBELINK%&ALL |
http://YOURACCOUNT.activehosted.com/box.php?nl=3&c=44&m=41&s=5cd0dc36f71e9bd4099f74e8bf64c51b&funcml=unsub2&ALL |
| Social Submit Links | %SOCIALSHARE% |
See below for each individual link URL. |
| Facebook Like Button | %SOCIAL-FACEBOOK-LIKE% |
With link tracking on:http://YOURACCOUNT.activehosted.com/lt.php?c=44&m=41&nl=3&s=5cd0dc36f71e9bd4099f74e8bf64c51b&lid=163&l=-http--YOURACCOUNT.activehosted.com/index.php--Q-action--E-social--A-c--E-f7177163c833dff4b38fc8d2872f1ec6.41--A-facebook--E-likeWith link tracking off:http://YOURACCOUNT.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&c=d9d4f495e875a2e075a1a4a6e1b9770f.43&facebook=like
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| Share on Facebook Link/Icon | %SOCIALSHARE-FACEBOOK% |
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| Share on Facebook Link Only | %SOCIALSHARE-FACEBOOK-LINK% |
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| Share on Twitter Link/Icon | %SOCIALSHARE-TWITTER% |
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| Share on Twitter Link Only | %SOCIALSHARE-TWITTER-LINK% |
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| Share on Digg Link/Icon | %SOCIALSHARE-DIGG% |
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| Share on Digg Link Only | %SOCIALSHARE-DIGG-LINK% |
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| Share on Reddit Link/Icon | %SOCIALSHARE-REDDIT% |
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| Share on Reddit Link Only | %SOCIALSHARE-REDDIT-LINK% |
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| Share on del.icio.us Link/Icon | %SOCIALSHARE-DELICIOUS% |
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| Share on del.icio.us Link Only | %SOCIALSHARE-DELICIOUS-LINK% |
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| Share on Google+ Link/Icon | %SOCIALSHARE-GPLUS% |
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| Share on Google+ Link Only | %SOCIALSHARE-GPLUS-LINK% |
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| Share on StumbleUpon Link/Icon | %SOCIALSHARE-STUMBLEUPON% |
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| Share on StumbleUpon Link Only | %SOCIALSHARE-STUMBLEUPON-LINK% |
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| Today's Date(assuming today is Oct. 24, 2011) | %TODAY% |
10/24/2011 |
| Today's Date + 1 | %TODAY+1% |
10/25/2011 |
| Today's Date - 1 | %TODAY-1% |
10/23/2011 |
| List Sender Info | %SENDER-INFO% |
My Email Marketing Company 123 S. Main St, Chicago, IL 60405 United States |
| List Sender Info (single line) | %SENDER-INFO-SINGLELINE% |
My Email Marketing Company, 123 S. Main St, Chicago, IL 60405, United States |
| Sender List Reminder | %SENDER-LIST-REMINDER% |
You were added to this list when you purchased from our company. |
| Contact's IP Address | %CONTACTIP% |
90.434.22.189 |
| Contact's List | %LISTNAME% |
General List |
| Contact ID | %CONTACTID% |
23 |
| Campaign ID | %CAMPAIGNID% |
14 |
| Message ID | %MESSAGEID% |
26 |