Imagine that you have created an email and are ready to send it to your customers. But before that, you would like to check that this is displayed correctly.
To do this, we strongly recommend that you send a test email to yourself to make sure that your email looks the way you intended, both on desktop and mobile devices. This is called email testing.
Stripo has 2 options for testing:
You can perform the test using your email box to check the display of your email;
Secondly, you can utilize Email on Acid (Stripo's embedded email testing tool) to test email across multiple email clients and devices to see how your emails will render in recipients' inboxes.
If your email has language versions, pick the one you want to check in the language selector inside the Test pop-up. The test then covers only that version.
Available on the Medium plan and higher.
Available on the Medium plan and higher.
How to send test emails?
Testing is a crucial step in email crafting. You can test emails with Stripo in just a few clicks. Here's how:
Please click on the "Test" button above the template;
In a pop-up window, enter your email address and click the "Send Test" button in the "Your Inbox" tab;
Important note: A Paid subscription allows you to send a test to multiple email addresses.
Check your Inbox. Done:)
How many tests can I send with my pricing plan?
FREE subscription: allows you to send test emails to your email address only — the one which you used when registering your account with Stripo. You can send up to 5 test emails a day;
BASIC subscription: you can send up to 50 test emails daily to any email address;
MEDIUM subscription: you can send up to 100 test emails daily to any email address;
PRO subscription: you can send up to 300 test emails daily to any email address;
PRIME subscription: you can send unlimited test emails daily to any email address.
How can I test email templates across multiple email clients?
Prior to sending emails over to recipients, you need to test them to avoid different issues carefully. To do so, please follow a few steps:
Click on the "Test" button above the template;
Select the "Run a test" option in the "Email Clients" tab;
In a new window, Stripo's email testing tool will show how your email is displayed across various clients and devices, including categories for Mobile, Applications, and Web.
Please follow our separate article to find more information about the "Email Clients Tests" option.
Accessibility Check:
You can also run an email accessibility check to discover compliance issues and manage fixes:
You will see the results that failed, passed, and were ignored (in case you would like to skip fixing some of the failed results):
After this you can click on the error and the automatic window will be opened, where you can manually fix the issue or use the AI assistance. You can apply the fix or just ignore the issue.
WIth the arrow sign, you can list and fix the current issue in all the places in the template.
Additionally, if you press on the Question sign, you will see the attached link to the community where you can see more information about the error: https://act-rules.github.io/pages/about
In case you ignored some error but later would like to fix it, you can open the Ignored tab and press on unignore:
Additionally, you can see how the template will be visible in 5 types of color vision deficiency and hide the images:
URLs:
You can also check all the links and image sources in your email directly in the editor, with one click. This helps you find broken URLs, invalid merge tags, and reputation issues while you are still working on the email.
To run the check, please click on the "Test" → "URLs" → "Run a test" in the editor:
The editor switches to the URL validation mode and shows the "URL Validation" panel with the results for every link and image source found in your template.
The check covers:
all the links in your email;
all the image sources (image src);
merge tags inside the URLs;
reputation issues for the domains you link to.
After the check is completed, the results are grouped into three tabs:
"Error": the links and image sources that did not pass the check. The counter next to the tab shows how many issues were found;
"Passed": the links and image sources that were checked with no issues found;
"Ignored": the issues you have chosen to skip. They stay in this tab, so you can return to them at any time.
To fix an issue, please open the "Error" tab and click on the issue. Enter the correct URL in the field and click on the "Update" button. If the same URL is used in several places in your template, the "Update all" button also appears. Click on it to replace the URL everywhere at once. To skip the issue, please click on "Ignore": it moves to the "Ignored" tab.
When there are no issues left, please click on the "Back" button in the header to return to the regular editing mode.
Please note that we recommend running the URL check last, after your final edits. Links are often the last thing to be changed in an email, so this way you check the version you actually send.
Spam testing:
You can also test email templates for spam directly in the editor, without exporting HTML or using third-party services.
This helps you quickly assess whether an email may be at risk of landing in the Spam folder while you’re still working on it.
To run the test, please click on the "Test" → "Spam" → "Run Check" in the editor:
After the test is completed, the editor displays the overall spam result along with detailed checks.
This includes a SpamAssassin content analysis and additional checks for unsubscribe links, broken links, and URL shorteners.
Please note that the test evaluates email content only. Sender settings such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are not included in the results.
Whether an email lands in the inbox or spam folder depends on several factors, including:
the reputation of the sending domain;
sending frequency (emails sent too often or too rarely may be marked as spam);
missing required links, such as Unsubscribe or View in browser.
Thank you for taking the time to read our articles. We hope you will find this information helpful.
If you have any additional questions, please email us at support@stripo.email.
We would be glad to talk with you.