Marie Curie Charity eCards Help
Why send Marie Curie charity eCards?
Marie Curie eCards are a fun way to send greetings to friends and family around the world, and to give to charity while you do it. Charity eCards are animated, environmentally friendly and aren't dependent on the postie, so you can be sure they'll arrive on time. And, depending on how many credits you buy, they cost less than the price of a first class stamp.
Also, because all proceeds from our charity eCards go directly to supporting our nurses and hospices, you'll be spreading goodwill with every card that you send.
Sending them is easy - you can import your contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, your Google mail account, or from a spreadsheet.
Also, because all proceeds from our charity eCards go directly to supporting our nurses and hospices, you'll be spreading goodwill with every card that you send.
Create a charity eCard nowHow much do they cost?
Our eCards work on a credit system. For each credit that you buy, you can send an eCard to a friend. The more credits you buy, the cheaper they get.
£1 = 1 eCard
£3 = 5 eCards
£5 = 10 eCards
£10 = 25 eCards
£17.50 = 50 eCards
£30 = 100 eCards
How do I purchase credits?
Once you have registered for an eCards account you'll be taken to a screen allowing you to buy your first credits. You can top up your credits at any time after that by clicking on the Top up link on the right hand side of the page header bar.
Go backHow secure is the Marie Curie charity eCard payment system?
We’ve teamed up with WorldPay, a payment system which uses a combination of both established and innovative technologies to ensure the security and integrity of all sensitive data.
Furthermore, WorldPay's public web servers are certified by Thawte, a public Certificate Authority, ensuring that both the shopper and retailer can have confidence that nobody can impersonate WorldPay to obtain confidential information.
How do I create an eCard?
Once you've signed in you can personalise your card with your own message (as long or as short as you like) and choose a font and colour.
Once you've composed your message you enter the email addresses of the people that you'd like to send it to, schedule when you'd like it to be sent and that's it - we'll do the rest.
How do I send my charity eCard to a list of people?
To send the same card to a group of people you can import your contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, your Google mail account, or upload a csv file of names and email addresses created in Excel. See below for instructions.
You can also copy and paste a list of emails straight into the addresses box from a Word document. If you copy and paste from a Word document, each email address should be separated by a comma, a space or a new line.
Importing your contacts from Microsoft Outlook
Open Outlook. From the File menu, click on Import and export, then choose Comma separated values (Windows) from the list. In the next screen, click on Contacts and save the file somewhere easy to find.
In your eCards address book, click on the Import contacts tab, select the Outlook or Outlook express option and click on the continue button. Browse to the location of the file you've just saved, then click on the Import file button.
Go backImporting your contacts from Excel
You can import names and email addresses from a spreadsheet. Open the spreadsheet in Excel and select Save As from the File menu. In the drop-down box at the bottom of the Save As window, choose CSV (Comma delimited) (*.csv). Save the file somewhere easy to find.
In your eCards address book, click on the Import contacts tab, select the Excel option and click on the continue button. Browse to the location of the file you've just saved, then click on the Import file button.
Go backHow will my friends receive their charity eCards?
An email will be sent to each recipient's email address with your address in the ‘reply-to’ field. The email will tell them that you have sent them a Marie Curie eCard, and will include a link. When your recipient clicks on the link it will open an Internet browser window containing your chosen card and message.
Go backWhy wasn't my eCard received?
Most of the time this is due to emails being sent to out-of-date email addresses that are no longer being collected.
Some workplaces also have strict policies regarding receiving only known email sender addresses and will have a firewall on their server to stop all other emails.
Sometimes web email addresses are temporarily unavailable because the mailbox is too full, or because the mail server is too busy. Where possible, we will attempt to resend eCards where there has been a delivery failure.
Go backMarie Curie Newsletter
We love to keep in touch with our supporters, so if you would like to receive further information by email about our charitable work and fundraising opportunities please go to our newsletter signup page.
I already have a personal account but want to register for a corporate account
You can only have one account per email address. You can log and change your email address in the Change your settings section of Your account. Then you will be able to register for a corporate account.
If you don't have an alternative email address, it is easy (and free) to register for a web mail account.
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