Build beautiful emails quickly with Dyspatch and send them to your customers using Amazon's Pinpoint marketing service.

Downloading Your Email Template

Once your email has been reviewed and approved by your team's stakeholder, you can now export your template using the Download/Export button.

You will need to select the HTML/Handlebars option to be compatible with Pinpoint's templating system.

A zipped file will be downloaded onto your system with the HTML, plain text content, metadata, and localizations (if applicable).

Getting the HTML Source Code

AWS Pinpoint requires you to copy and paste HTML directly into their system. To obtain the HTML source code for your email, you can open the HTML file in a text editor or open the file in a web browser and view the page source.

Web Browser

Most web browsers will have a "View Page Source" option. The following screenshots will outline steps for Google Chrome.

Open the HTML file in a web browser, and right click the page to open a drop down menu. Select the View Page Source option.

You will be presented with the HTML source code and you can copy the HTML and add the content into Pinpoint.

Text Editor

Windows

Notepad comes pre-installed with Windows operating systems, so you should be able to search for Notepad and open the HTML file. Once opened, you can copy the HTML and add the content into Pinpoint.

MacOS

TextEdit comes pre-installed with MacOS operating systems, so you should be able to search for TextEdit and open the HTML file. Note that you may need to adjust your preferences to allow HTML files to be opened in code format.

In the preferences settings, click the "Open and Save" tab. Make sure the "Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text" is enabled.

Once you have the HTML, you can copy the HTML and add the content into Pinpoint.

Adding the Template to Pinpoint

After you have the HTML code, go to AWS Pinpoint in the AWS dashboard. Next go to the "Message templates" page and click "Create template".

Now that you have a new message you can put in the template from Dyspatch. First make sure that the message type is Email, then fill out the Template Name. Next, look in the metadata file to get the subject line. Then copy and paste the HTML code into the Message section.

Click Create and you're done! You can now start sending this email through AWS Pinpoint.