Create Tasks & Send Welcome Email to New Lead

When a new lead comes in you may want to create a task and send a welcome email. This article will walk you through the steps to create an automation for that. Remember, you can always add more or fewer actions to make this automation your own.

Steps

1. Create a task template
2. Create an email template
3. Create a automation using email and task templates

1. Create a task template (for automated tasks)

1. Navigate to Settings > Tasks. Click on Create Task Template
2. [Required] Enter the Task Name and Template name
3. [Optional] Enter the Due in, Assignee and Details
4. Save the task template

Note: See a full length article on how to create a task template here

2. Create an email template (for automated emails)

1. Navigate to Settings > Email. Click on Create Email Template
2. Select template kind Custom email template
3. Add recipients, a subject line, and the body of the email
4. Save the email template

Note: See a full length article on how to create an email template here

3. Create an automation using email and task templates   

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Create an automation using email and task templates

Navigate to Settings > Automations. Click on Create Automation

Enter a Name for your automation and save

You will be navigated to the automation builder page

Select the desired trigger for the automation. For example, if you want to create a task every time a new lead is created, click on Project > New project created

Select the project types that you would like this automation to apply to. You may select more than one project type here. Click on Done

Select the Create task action

Select the desired task template

Click on Done

Note: To add more tasks, restart at the Create task action step above. If you would like the automation to send an automated email, continue with the steps below. If not, you may jump to the Save Automation step below.

To send an automated email at the same time, click on the + icon, then select the Send email action

Select the desired email template

Click on Done

Click on Save Automation

Finally, when you're satisfied with the flow, toggle the automation active

You're all done!

Every time a new project is created, this automation will be triggered causing a task to be created and an email to be sent. You can view all the times the automation ran by clicking on the menu under Actions > View workflow runs.

To start creating automations, navigate to https://app.supermove.co/settings/workflows

Additional Resources

1. For additional video tutorials click here!
2. For a breakdown of all the possible triggers (events) and actions, see the Events & Actions Explained Article.