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New Feature - Easy Reply Links In Emailed Messages

This is a quick little feature, but I think it’ll have a big impact for some folks (like my church at MBCC). Up till now, when you receive an emailed message in your email client of choice, there’s been no easy way to reply to the message. At this time Stafftool doesn’t have the ability to accept incoming email, so if you reply to the message by email, it only goes to the person who sent the message, but not the rest of the group. To reply to the rest of the group, you would go to your Stafftool account, view the message and click the reply button. Easy enough, but not very convenient.

So, while I plan on adding the ability to simply reply via normal email sometime in the future, I decided to add something that would be *almost* as easy in the meantime.

Now at the bottom of any message sent to a group that is marked as having a message board, like so:

will have a button link at the bottom of the email like:

Keep in mind, though, that messages sent to smart groups won’t have this link, nor will messages sent to groups where the message board option is not selected.

Then, all the recipient has to do is click that link to open up Stafftool with the reply form all ready to go so they can send off their response. Even if they’re not logged in at the time, they’ll be logged in by clicking on that link. Convenient and easy.

That’s all there is to it, hopefully this will help spark some conversation among your groups!