Smart Check

What is Smart Check?

Smart Check is your proactive quality assurance tool integrated into Beefree's email and landing page builder. It automatically scans your designs for common issues that could impact email and page performance, accessibility, and the overall user experience.

Note: Smart Check is in Beta. As you use the feature, please send Beefree any feedback you may have.

Benefits of Smart Check

A few of the benefits of using Smart Check within Beefree are you:

• Save time: Skip the manual checks—Smart Check identifies potential issues for you.
• Improve email quality: Create polished, optimized, and accessible designs easily.
• Gain peace of mind: Follow email best practices to ensure your campaigns perform at their best.

What This Article Covers

Continue reading this article to learn more about:

• Prerequisites before getting started
• How to use Smart Check 
  • Step-by-step instructions for using Smart Check
• Key considerations to keep in mind when you do use Smart Check

Prerequisites

• Plan type: Smart Check is available on Business and Enterprise plans.
• Role type:
  • You can view and fix errors if you're an Owner, Admin, Manager, Editor, or Contributor.
  • You can only view issues (not fix them) if you're a Viewer or External Reviewer (comments only).
• Feature restrictions:
  • Smart Check Beta works in the primary language of your designs and doesn’t include the Form content block in landing pages.

Key Definitions

This article references the following terms. The following list displays their corresponding definitions. 

• Alt Text: Descriptions added to images for accessibility and an improved user experience.
• Synced Rows: Reusable design components that update across multiple projects when edited.

How to Use Smart Check

Learn how to use Smart Check in this section.

Accessing Smart Check

Take the following steps to access Smart Check:

1. Open your design in the Beefree builder.
2. Find the Smart Check icon in the top bar and click it to view issues and suggestions.

Below is a visual representation of what the Smart Check icon looks like within the Beefree builder.

When you click on the Smart Check icon, you will see a list of both Warnings and Suggestions, as well as a list of checks that Passed. 

You can scroll through the list of Warnings and Suggestions. If you click on any of them, it will redirect you to the section where you can apply the suggested change and resolve the notification.

You can also view the checks that Passed.

Difference Between Warnings and Suggestions

Smart Check performs different types of checks on your design. These checks can result in Warnings or Suggestions. In this section, we’ll cover the scope of what a Warning is and what a Suggestion is.

Warning

A Warning is a critical change that needs to be addressed and resolved prior to exporting your email or page.

Suggestion

A Suggestion is a non-critical change that should be addressed and resolved prior to exporting your email or page, because it will result in a better experience with the content.

Types of Checks

The following tables outline each type of check that Smart Check performs and distinguishes whether or not the check is a Warning or Suggestion.

ALT Text Descriptions

The following table lists the ALT text description checks that Smart Check performs and their corresponding Warnings and Suggestions. 

Missing Links

The following table lists the Missing checks that Smart Check performs and their corresponding Warnings and Suggestions. 

Image Weight

The following table lists the image weight checks that Smart Check performs and their corresponding Warnings and Suggestions.

Subject and Preheader

The following table lists the subject and preheader checks that Smart Check performs and their corresponding Warnings and Suggestions.

HTML Weight

The following table lists the HTML weight checks that Smart Check performs and their corresponding Warnings and Suggestions.

Send Feedback to the Beefree Team

Smart Check is in Beta, meaning we love to gather your feedback and learn more about what you like and don’t like about it. You can easily send us feedback in the Beefree builder using the Send feedback link with the Smart Check window.

Important Considerations

This section outlines important considerations to keep in mind when using Smart Check.

Synced Rows

When using Synced Rows and Smart Check, consider the following:

• Smart Check refreshes and updates when you edit Synced Rows and reopen it.
• Bulk changes like alt text updates won’t apply to synced rows unless you edit them directly in the Synced Row builder.

Feature Limitations

Consider the following feature limitations:

• Smart Check Beta isn’t compatible with multilingual design alternatives.
• It doesn’t validate form links in landing pages.
• Titles and meta descriptions on pages are currently not checked by Smart Check.
• External Reviewers and Viewers will see a tooltip saying they can’t access the Subject and Preheader modal, as they don’t have permission to edit these fields. However, they can leave a comment to notify others if these fields are missing.

Best Practices

Consider the following best practice when using Smart Check:

• While linking images is optional, Smart Check flags missing links to raise your awareness.

Smart Check simplifies your email and page optimization. It provides actionable feedback on common issues, ensuring your campaigns are accessible, high-performing, and visually polished. With its time-saving automation, you can focus on creativity and strategy while letting Smart Check handle the micro-level details.