Email Communication With External Requesters

This is a native email integration feature that allows Wrike users in your account to communicate with people outside of Wrike by receiving and sending emails directly from Wrike tasks to external email addresses. This way, you can collaborate on tasks with external requesters without the need to add them to your Wrike account and avoid switching to email to provide updates.

To start using this feature, set your external request forms to allow email communication. In tasks created from these request forms, Wrike users will be able to communicate with external requesters via email and vice versa. An additional advantage of request forms is that they promote structured work intake, reducing back-and-forth email communication required to collect all needed information.

Space admins can create and edit request forms in the space that they manage. Account owners and admins can create and edit all request forms in the account. On Enterprise accounts, this right can be restricted for account admins.

If you already had your external request forms set to collect users' names and emails, then in tasks created from such forms starting from the beginning of March 2022, you'll already have the ability to send emails to external requesters.

If the collection of names and emails was not enabled, you'll need to adjust the settings to allow email communication in tasks created from request forms. To do that:

Now in tasks that will be created from this request form, you'll be able to send an email directly from the comment section.

All users except for external users and collaborators can send emails to external requesters from comments in tasks that they have access to unless their access role restricts them.

Once the external request form is submitted, you receive a new task in Wrike. This task will have the option to Email to requester. 1 To send an email from Wrike, select this option while submitting a comment in the task.

Alternatively, you can simply click the reply icon on comments in the task. If you reply to a comment added from the external requester's email, the Email to requester option will be selected automatically. If you reply to a comment that was added from an outgoing email to the requester, the reply will be an internal Wrike comment starting with the @mention of the user who sent the email from Wrike.

The requester then receives an email and replies to it in their email client. This email chain reply is added to the original Wrike task as a comment. Task assignees get only Inbox notifications about new emails received in Wrike. The notification is sent by Wrike Bot. Additionally, assignees and followers receive email notifications.

If you add a comment to the task without selecting Email to requester, this comment will not be available to the requester outside Wrike.

When submitting the external request form, the requester will be asked to provide their name and email address. Once the form is submitted, the requester receives a confirmation email with the automatically generated request number. This number is the same as the created task ID in Wrike.

When a Wrike user sends an email reply to the request, the requester can simply reply to the email. Their reply will be added as a comment to the task in Wrike.