We recently discovered the ability to send e-mails to constituents PLUS relationships attached to the record (including spouses!) in Online Express. But it turns out there's still no way to send an e-mail to both constituents and spouses in RE NXT unless they have their own separate record. In order for us to be able to use the marketing e-mail feature in RE NXT, we need to be able to select multiple address types (primary, work, etc.) and include spouses.
Since Blackbaud charges for the quantity of constituents, we limit adding spouses as constituents. However, a lot of times both spouses want to receive the communications so it would be helpful to be able to have the NXT emails sent to non-constituent relationships. Or at least those coded as the Spouse.
I end up sending the email twice -- once to the preferred email, and then a second time to Spouse email. I cannot make separate constituents of these people! Why not just have a check box of the various email types and voila!
This is also helpful on organization records where multiple executives for a company may not have individual records. Come on BB!