Birthdays Notification
Configure and manage birthday notifications, detailing configuration settings, merge fields, and more.
- Frequency: Daily.
- Recipients: Any active participant with an email and a participant type that has the Send Birthday Email field set to Yes.
- Contents: An email wishing the recipient a happy birthday.
- How to Stop: On the participant type record, set the Send Birthday Email field to No, or set the SERVICES, BirthdayNotificationTemplateID configuration setting to 0 (zero) to turn off birthday notifications.
- Method for Sending: MinistryPlatform.
- Logging in Messages: Daily, the template message is copied. Recipients are logged.
- Configuration Settings: SERVICES, BirthdayNotificationTemplateID specifies which message template to use for notifications.
- Merge Fields Supported:
- Subject: [Nickname].
- Body: [Nickname].
- Initial Configuration: Edit each participant type so that the Send Birthday Email field is set to Yes.
- Optional Configuration: Edit the message as needed. Change the From contact to an appropriate record.
Tip: Want to get more personal? Create a view on the Group Participants page that displays a person's name, home address, birthday, and their group and role. Set up a notification for the ministry leader and let them send a handwritten note!