Personalization Tags overview

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A personalization tag is a small piece of code that pulls in the appropriate value for a contact, deal, account, or custom object field. You can insert these tags into your messaging to create personalized experiences for your contacts, increasing engagement with your communications and brand.

In this article, you'll learn about personalization tags and how they work.

Take Note

  • ActiveCampaign offers personalization tags for:
    • Contact fields 
    • Deal fields
    • Account fields
    • Custom object fields 
    • 3rd party custom object fields 
  • Access to the fields outlined above depends on your ActiveCampaign plan
  • Our system does not support hyphens in user-created tags. Any hyphens added to custom fields will be removed
  • The text-only campaign builder does not support personalization tags. Because of this, it is not possible to edit the default footer in text-only campaigns

How personalization tags work

The ActiveCampaign platform automatically generates personalization tags for each field in your account. Personalization tags are dynamic. This means that the value of the personalization tag changes based on the field value.

For example, if you send a campaign to a list of contacts and want to address them by their first names, you would insert the following personalization tag into your email:

%FIRSTNAME%

When contacts receive your email, they will see their name in the message.

  If the value of your personalization tag is a URL, contacts can click it once they receive your email.

Ways to use personalization tags

Depending on your plan, personalization tags can be used to insert dynamic content into the following:

Learn how to add default values to custom fields.

How to modify personalization tags

Modifiers allow you to change the capitalization of your data when 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.

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 the entire tag to all uppercase letters)
  • UPPERFIRST (converts the 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 contact 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%
 
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
Deal Title
%DEAL_TITLE%
John's First Deal
Deal Description
%DEAL_DESCRIPTION%
This is John's first ActiveCampaign Deal.
Deal Value
%DEAL_VALUE%
2,000
Deal Status
%DEAL_STATUS%
Open
Pipeline
%DEAL_PIPELINE%
New Customers
Stage
%DEAL_STAGE%
To Contact
Created Date (this tag for Deals)
%DEAL_CREATED_DATE%
02/09/2021
Last Updated Date (this tag for Deals)
%DEAL_UPDATED_DATE%
04/21/2021
Unsubscribe Link (All Lists)

Note: This personalization tag will add contacts to your Exclusion list, preventing 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
Account Name
%ACCT_NAME%
John's Account
URL
%ACCT_URL%
https://help.activecampaign.com/hc/en-us
Created Date (this tag is for Accounts)
%ACCT_CREATED_DATE%
02/09/2021
Last Updated Date (this tag is for Accounts)
%ACCT_UPDATED_DATE%
04/21/2021
Address 1
%ACCT_ADDRESS_1%
My Email Marketing Company, 123 S. Main St, Chicago, IL 60405, United States
Address 2
%ACCT_ADDRESS_2%
My Other Email Marketing Company, 321 S. Main St, Chicago, IL 60405, United States
City
%ACCT_CITY%
Chicago
State/Providence
%ACCT_STATE_PROVIDENCE%
IL
Postal Code
%ACCT_POSTAL_CODE%
60405
Number of Employees
%ACCT_NUMBER_OF_EMPLOYEES%
300
Annual Revenue
%ACCT_ANNUAL_REVENUE%
1,000,000
Industry/Vertical
%ACCT_INDUSTRY_VERTICAL%
Marketing
Country
%ACCT_COUNTRY%
USA
Social Submit Links
%SOCIALSHARE%
See below for each individual link URL.
Facebook Like Button
%SOCIAL-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 del.icio.us Link/Icon
%SOCIALSHARE-DELICIOUS%
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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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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
%SUBSCRIBERID%
23
Campaign ID
%CAMPAIGNID%
14
Message ID
%MESSAGEID%
26

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