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Salutation
Preferred Name
Household Salutation and Household Name
Salutations in Mailings
Salutations in Emails
NeonCRM has several fields that allow you to define salutations and greetings for hard copy mailings and emails.
Salutation
The Salutation field is available in the About section of all NeonCRM accounts. For Individual accounts, it is located in the Name widget. For Company accounts, it is located in the Primary Contact widget.
Make changes by clicking the Edit button at the top of the account's About section.
Salutation is intended to be used as the greeting in a letter or email, such as "Dear [Salutation],". Unlike some systems, NeonCRM does not have separate fields for Formal vs. Informal Salutation. It is up to you how you would like to populate this field. You may populate it with a more formal salutation, such as "Mr. Ortiz," for certain constituents; and a more informal salutation, such as "Daniel," for others.
Additionally, the Salutation field will auto-populate with Prefix + Last Name when the fields for Prefix, First Name, & Last Name are included on your front end forms.
Preferred Name
is available in the About section of all Neon CRM accounts. For Individual accounts, it is located in the Name widget. For Company accounts, it is located in the Primary Contact widget.
Preferred Name can be updated by constituents on account, donation, and membership forms.
Make changes by clicking the Edit button at the top of the account's About section.
Preferred Name is the way that a person would like to be addressed. Typically, this will be the same as the First Name field (which Neon CRM defaults to auto filling this field with) but can be different if the person has a nickname. This field can also be used as a greeting for a letter or email.
Household Salutation and Household Name
Households are a way of keeping track of the relationships amongst families and those who live together. When you create a household, you are able to track both a Household Name and Household Salutation. Both of these fields can be edited by opening the Actions Menu at the top of the Household Contacts section of any household contact's account and selecting Edit Household.
Household Name is what you would use for the outside of an envelope for mailing. Household Salutation is what you would refer to people when you are mailing to them and want to greet the household with everyone who should be addressed in your introduction.
Salutations in Mailings
When creating the content for System Letters in NeonCRM, several salutation fields are available as tokens. You can search the tokens menu for these options.
When you plan to do an external letter, you can click Edit Columns to include the salutation information that you need.
Salutations in Emails
When creating the content for System Emails in NeonCRM, several salutation fields are available as tokens. You can search the tokens menu for these options.