{"id":3394,"date":"2014-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theill.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/tip-include-email-in-notification-message-when-sending-confirmation-mails\/"},"modified":"2014-05-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T22:00:00","slug":"tip-include-email-in-notification-message-when-sending-confirmation-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theill.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/tip-include-email-in-notification-message-when-sending-confirmation-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Include email in notification message when sending confirmation mails"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are a web developer and needs to handle user registration the you probably are sending out confirmation emails to users to ensure they’ve entered a valid email.<\/p>\n

Lots of web sites (and apps) are showing a message saying “We’ve send you a confirmation mail. Please check your mailbox”.<\/p>\n

Tip of the day is this – make sure to include the actual email in that notification message. In case a user actually entered a wrong email he will notice immediately and doesn’t need to refresh his email box to see if the mail is coming through. A simple “Hey, we’ve send off a confirmation mail to john@doe.com now. Please check your mailbox in a minute” is enough.<\/p>\n

I’ll add this tip to an upcoming article about UI tips & tricks for apps and web sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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