- Test Email
Send a test email for free
Preview the content of your email before sending using Canva Email. Ensure your message looks, reads, and loads exactly the way you want it.
Preview your email from your audience’s eyes
Drafting, polishing, revising, and designing an email already takes a lot of brain power, making quality checks harder. With Canva Email(opens in a new tab or window), you can send yourself a test email directly to your Canva-authorized email address to catch errors you might’ve overlooked and ensure the content looks good, from subject line and body message, to formatting and design.
Edit your email design with AI
On Canva, you can access built-in AI tools to simplify email writing and design. Magic Write™(opens in a new tab or window) helps you draft impactful email copies that match your unique tone and style. Magic Expand(opens in a new tab or window) lets you fix awkward framing, and Magic Edit (Pro) allows you to add or remove any element in your image attachment. Paired with hundreds of pre-made, professional templates, you save hours of complex design work and deliver flawless content fast.
Send click-worthy emails, every time
Ensure your emails earn their keep in your recipients’ inboxes. After previewing your custom design via a test email, send it anywhere with seamless HTML export or directly to Gmail and Mailchimp in a few clicks from the Share menu.
How to send a test email
Frequently asked questions
- As the name suggests, a test email is a sample email sent to a small, internal group to check its quality before launching to a wider audience. Its purpose is to review the contents for accuracy and/or errors, confirm there are no issues with the layout and design elements, and ensure recipients get a perfect, polished email. Test emails are critical to email marketing initiatives, and must always be included in the quality checking process.
- Test emails should be completely separate from the live launch and should not be included in the analytics. That said, test emails could inform the actual launch. Aside from catching quality issues with the message itself, test emails also show how the email lands on the recipient’s inbox. Professional email marketing platforms often have a separate function for email testing to prevent any mishaps with the live distribution list and ensure that nothing goes out until the brand is ready to go live.
- There’s no hard limit on the amount of test emails you could send with our email builder. But while you can, in theory, keep testing indefinitely, it’s best practice to consider every sample like a live email. Doing so helps you build good habits on quality control and minimizes fatigue or burn out from seeing the same piece of content over and over again.