Configure Email Automation
Trigger verified-sender email from forms, contacts, appointments, orders, pipelines and automation flows.
Overview
Search Aliases: automated follow up email, email workflow, drip sequence, triggered email
Step-by-step instructions
- Define the business goal.
- Choose the trigger, such as contact creation, form submission, pipeline stage, appointment, order or external event.
- Select the verified sender.
- Create or select approved email content.
- Map contact variables and fallback values.
- Add conditions and delays.
- Respect business hours where relevant.
- Add suppression and opt-out checks for promotional email.
- Add failure handling and human follow-up.
- Test every branch using fictional contacts.
- Publish.
- Monitor logs and bounces.
EXAMPLE
Trigger: Course inquiry form submitted.
Action: Send programme guide from admissions@example.pk.
Delay: Two days.
Condition: Registration not completed and contact not suppressed.
Action: Send one follow-up and assign to admissions if the customer replies.
COMMON ISSUES & SOLUTIONS
| Automation does not start | Check trigger, published status and contact conditions. |
|---|---|
| Email uses wrong sender | Check selected connection. |
| Duplicate email | Review competing flows and repeated events. |
| Suppressed contact receives email | Review suppression check and audience refresh. |
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