Salesforce Marketing Cloud is one of the most powerful enterprise marketing platforms available. Organizations and businesses use it to manage complex, data-driven campaigns at scale.

Its Content Builder gives users precise control over email design, making it a seamless process to add third-party widgets like Sendtric countdown timers.

To add a Sendtric Countdown timer or email widget to your Salesforce Marketing Cloud campaigns, follow the steps below. It’s simple.

Step 1: Create Your Timer on Sendtric

You can create a free timer on our homepage or using your dashboard, or unlock extra features through one of our paid plans. Our free plan is one of the most generous, with 10,000 free monthly views with no watermark, but our paid plans allow you to use advanced customization and other features.

Once the widget is ready, you can copy its HTML embed code to your clipboard and switch over to Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Step 2: Insert Your Widget Into Your Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email

In your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account, go to Email Studio and then open Content Builder. Either open an existing email to edit or click Create to start a new one.

In the email editor, locate the HTML content block in the block library on the left-hand side. Drag it into your email where you want the Sedntric timer to appear.

Click on the HTML block to select it, then open the HTML editor tab in the properties panel. Paste the HTML code you copied from Sendtric directly into the editor.

The standard sendtric HTML code for a timer widget looks like this when it is center aligned:

<table align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <img src="https://gen.sendtric.com/countdown/xyz123456" style="display: block; max-width:100%;"/> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

In the dashboard, you can select whether the time is aligned in the center, left, or right, and the HTML code will adjust to your preference.

Step 3: You’re Done

Once copied, the timer is ready to use on your Salesforce Marketing Cloud email campaigns. With Content Builder’s built-in preview feature and test send options, you can confirm it works before rolling it out. 

If you opt for the paid Sendtric plan and want to redesign the timer after placing it in a template, all you have to do is return to the Sendtric editor to make changes. There is no need to copy and paste the code again. Being an embedded URL, it will automatically reflect changes as you save them.

We’d love to hear about your experience using Sendtric with Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Feel free to reach out at support@sendtric.com with any questions, feedback, or ideas.