Martide lets you send emails to multiple seafarers and their manning agents at once. This is useful if you need to send updates about something that affects a number of people. Here's how.
Log in to Martide. Click on the envelope at the top to go to your Martide inbox:
At the top there are two tabs: Messages and Broadcasts:
Click on Broadcasts and you will see this (the inbox will be empty if this is your first Broadcast):
Here you can:
Send a new Broadcast by clicking the New button.
See your sent, draft and deleted (trash) Broadcasts .
Search your Broadcast messages using the search bar at the top.
Click on a message preview to see it in full on the right.
Click the New button to open a new message:
Click the To box and you will see this pop-up box:
If you're sending a broadcast to your manning agents, click the Agency ids drop-down menu to add the companies you want to include.
If you're sending a broadcast to your seafarers, select Seafarers from the drop-down menu at the top, and you will see this:
Here you can:
Select the manning agent(s) who represent the seafarers you want to send a Broadcast to.
Select the nationality, rank, status, Seafarer Pool and Client of the seafarers you want to send a Broadcast to. You can select more than one of each.
Select whether you want to send the Broadcast to ex-crew, not ex-crew or both and whether they are ashore, onboard, or if you want to send it to both.
For example:
The box at the bottom tells you how many seafarers you are sending the Broadcast to.
Click Apply and you will go to the blank message with the recipients already filled in the 'to' bar.
Here you can:
Type your subject and message.
Add an attachment by clicking the paperclip at the bottom.
Click Save to draft to save it and finish it later.
Click Cancel to delete the Broadcast and Send to send it. When it’s sent, you’ll see a list of seafarers who received the message underneath it.
Click the down arrow next to Drafts to see if you're Assigned to or Watching a vacancy/Assignment discussed in the message:
Next guide: How to Add Tags to Broadcast Messages