What are Journeys and how are they different from Automations?
A Journey is the new way to automate your marketing with Remarkety! You can create a Journey of actions, such as sending emails and SMS’s, and automatically trigger and time them based on real-time data and customer behavior.
What are the advantages of Journeys over Automations?
Remarkety has always been about Automation. However, currently every single Automation can perform only a single action (send an email or an SMS). With Journeys, you can create and manage a set of interactions, all in one place. For example, create an entire “abandoned cart” series, with emails and SMS’s, in a single view and within a single context.
What triggers are available?
The following triggers can cause Journeys to start:
- A cart has been abandoned
- An order has been placed
- An order has been fulfilled
- Birthday trigger
- A shopper was added to or removed from a designated segment
- A shopper opted-in to email or SMS marketing
- An order status has been updated
- An order's financial status has been updated
More triggers are planned, please let us know which ones you’d like to see!
Will my Automations continue working?
Yes, your existing Automations and newsletters are completely unaffected. The Journeys are a brand new feature, and do not affect anything else that you currently have set up within Remarkety.
Do I need to migrate my Automations to Journeys?
Fear not, your Automations will continue working as usual. However, you might have currently active Automations which are defined in a cumbersome way, and that would benefit from being migrated over to Journeys. There is currently no quick way to migrate Automations into Journeys, but we are working on it - stay tuned!
What can Automations do that Journeys cannot?
While in beta, the following features are supported by Automations but are not yet supported by Journeys:
- Transactional emails/SMS’s
- Custom reply-to email addresses
Can I use my existing Automation email designs when building a Journey?
Yes, you can migrate automation templates to be used in your Journeys. When creating an email inside of a new journey, you can "Import from Automations" and seamlessly upload the template.
What does “Beta” mean?
We are releasing Journeys as a “Beta” because we wanted to get it into your hands as soon as we knew everything was working well. However, there are still some new features which we think are important and we are still developing, as part of the final release.
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