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Hello everyone,<\/p>\n
This week we’re introducing some exciting and highly requested features to My Music Staff. Now create your own\u00a0email templates and have them \u00ab\u00a0your way\u00a0\u00bb. As well as custom email templates, we’re excited to introduce the new scheduling \u00ab\u00a0conflict detection\u00a0\u00bb feature. Never worry about booking 2 students in the same time\u00a0or\u00a0place\u00a0again!<\/p>\n
Custom email templates are now available; you can now define templates and use them when composing an email to your studio. This feature is useful for emails that you need to send periodically to your students, such as a \u00ab\u00a0Welcome\u00a0\u00bb email for new students. You can add templates from the \u00ab\u00a0Email\u00a0\u00bb tab in \u00ab\u00a0Studio Settings\u00a0\u00bb (the same place\u00a0the standard email templates are stored).<\/p>\n Using a custom template is easy. Start by writing an email to your student the way you’ve always done. On the email page you’ll see a new drop-down list labelled \u00ab\u00a0Custom Templates\u00a0\u00bb. Choose an entry from that list and My Music Staff will complete your email using that template.<\/p>\n We’ve also added some generic placeholders to emails sent through My Music Staff (i.e. %FirstName%, %LastName%, etc.). Now when composing any new email to multiple recipients, you can address them individually (\u00ab\u00a0Hi %FirstName%…\u00a0\u00bb).<\/p>\n As part of these email improvements, we’ve retired the \u00ab\u00a0Hide Recipient Email Addresses<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb option. The email addresses of recipients are now ALWAYS hidden.<\/p>\n When adding new lessons or events to your calendar, My Music Staff now checks for conflicting with other events on the schedule. If a teacher, student or location is already busy when you try to schedule an event\/lesson, My Music Staff will warn you. This is particularly helpful for multi-teacher studios, as it will help prevent double booking rooms.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a list of the other\u00a0changes we made this week:<\/p>\n We hope you enjoy the new features and improvements. Have a great week!<\/p>\n \u2013 The My Music Staff Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, This week we’re introducing some exciting and highly requested features to My Music Staff. Now create your own\u00a0email templates and have them \u00ab\u00a0your … <\/p>\n![\"customizable-email-templates\"](\"http:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/customizable-email-templates.png\")
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