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When to use customer portal hyperlink vs. customer portal URL smart field?
When to use customer portal hyperlink vs. customer portal URL smart field?

This article describes the difference between the customer portal smart fields when adding them to your templates.

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Written by Ron Danenberg
Updated over a week ago

What is the difference between the {{ customer_portal.url }} and the {{ customer_portal.hyperlink }} smart fields?

They will both redirect your customer to their customer portal (more information on the customer portal here)

BUT!

Depending on the communication type you want to utilise, please use the following smart fields to display the correct information.

Emails

You can utilise either:

{{ customer_portal.url }}

Displayed as:

or

{{ customer_portal.hyperlink }}

Displayed as clickable:

SMS's you can only utilise:

{{ customer_portal.url }}

Display as:


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