SaaS Welcome — Setup Checklist
5-step setup checklist with progress and personal CSM intro.
- Subject
- Welcome to Acme — let's get you to first value
- Preheader
- Five steps. Most teams finish in under 30 minutes.
- Width
- 600px
- Rows
- 2
- Blocks
- 7
- Buttons
- 1
- Images
- 0
- Words
- 104
- Rendered
- 10 KB
Exactly what ships
Rendered HTML, no transpile in between. Toggle desktop and mobile to verify the layout, then copy or download to use it anywhere.
How to use this template
Send a welcome email within minutes of a new sign-up while intent is highest. The first 24 hours after signup is when subscribers are most likely to open, click, and take action. Keep this template ready in your automation tool.
- Greet by first name with a fallback ("Hi {{first_name|there}}").
- State one specific next step. More than one CTA dilutes activation.
- Send from a personal-looking sender, not "Marketing Team".
- Don't reference the signup date; the email is the signup confirmation.
The 7 blocks that make this email
Make it yours. Ship it from the editor.
Open the template in Draftship's free editor. Edit the copy, swap the colors, change the variables. Export Outlook-safe HTML or paste into your ESP. No sign-up, local-first, no AI copy slop.
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