emailContact( )

Sends a triggered email to the current contact, unless that contact is marked as unsubscribed.

To learn more about triggered emails, see:

• About Triggered Emails
• Creating a Triggered Email
• How to Send a Triggered Email to Contacts with Code

Before calling emailContact() you need to set up at least 1 triggered email.

This method only sends an email to the current site visitor. To receive the email, the site visitor must be a contact with a subscriptionStatus set to "SUBSCRIBED" OR "NOT_SET". If the site visitor's subscriptionStatus is set to "UNSUBSCRIBED", the email will not be sent. Read more about how to check a contact's subscriptionStatus (SDK | Velo).

Currently, to send an email to a subscribed contact who is not the current site visitor is only available in Velo with the backend triggeredEmails.emailContact() method.

If the specified triggered email contains variables, you can specify values for those variables using the optional options parameter. The values specified must be strings. If the object specified to the variables object does not contain a key:value pair for a variable in the triggered email, the fallback value defined when creating the triggered email is inserted in place of the variable.

Note that creating a triggered email generates a code snippet for each of the triggered email templates. The generated code includes the email's ID and keys for all the email's variable names. Copy and paste the snippet into your code and define values for the contactId property and for each variable key. To learn how to use the generated snippet in code, see How to Send a Triggered Email with Code.