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Craft Shipping Confirmation Email: Including Order, Product, Shipping, and Billing Details

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Shipping Confirmation lets you send an automated shipping confirmation message once your customer's order has been shipped. Each time a customer's order is shipped, they enter the workflow. Depending on the delay the store owner sets, the customer receives an email about it. Once the email is sent, the client exits the workflow.

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Before you begin

Eligibility and requirements

The trigger for this workflow is preset and set to Order Fulfilled. This means that the order status should be pushed to Omnisend. This happens automatically for all direct integrations (Shopify, Bigcommerce, Magento, and Woocommerce) and those integrated via API-v3.

This event also carries billing and shipping information about the customer's order. It may also carry a Tracking link.

If your platform doesn't provide the tracking URL in the order details, you may use a third-party shipping application that can be integrated with Omnisend and your store platform.


Automation setup

To create the Shipping Confirmation workflow, proceed to the Automations tab โ†’ click the Create workflow button and pick it from the list.

Automation trigger settings

The default trigger is set to Order fulfilled status, meaning that this automation is only triggered when the order status changes to Fulfilled.

Audience filter

You may also target your automation based on your customers' Pcustomers'a (Country, Gender, Tag, etc.) and their belonging to a specific Segment.


Exit conditions

The shipping confirmation email doesn't have an exit condition, meaning the customer exits the flow after getting all the messages. However, you may also cancel the flow under certain conditions, for example, when the customer purchases a particular product, depending on the country they specify at the check-out page, or based on different order statuses.

Here you can read more about Exit Conditions.

Frequency

If you choose to avoid triggering the workflow for contacts who have already been in this automation, the same customer will only be able to trigger this sequence within a specific time. Since the Shipping Confirmation email should be sent for every order the customer places, we do not recommend enabling this option.


Conditional Split

With the Conditional Split block, you may send different messages based on the customer's profile data or the Segment they belong to. It might be a country your customer provides at the check-out or the number of orders he placed.


Delay

The delay block can be added to any automation stage and set to any value from immediately to several months. However, we recommend setting the delay immediately for the Shipping Confirmation email.

Content of the message (personalized information)

You may add Email, SMS, or Push Notification to your Shipping Confirmation sequence. Once the block is added, you must provide all the details, including the sender's email address, name, etc. If some data is still missing, you will see the warning message: 'Missing email information' or 'Missing SMS information.'

Special Items

In contrast to other emails, Shipping Confirmation preset contains special content Items. All the information specified in the templates gets pre-filled automatically each time the email should be sent to a particular customer.

  • Order details (order number and date).

  • Ordered products (details about ordered products, you can choose which information to show).

  • The order total (allows you to pick the pricing details you'd like to include in email content).

  • Billing & Shipping (billing and shipping details of your customer, you get to pick which information to include).

For Shopify users, the confirmation messages will be sent in the currency of the placed order.

SMS

If you like, you can just update your customers about the order shipment status in the Shipping Confirmation SMS. If you are using a third-party application, you may also add a tracking link to the SMS message content.

Shipping statuses updates

Omnisend allows you to send the notification for one shipping status only. Suppose you wish to update your customers on different statuses, ex. In Transit, Out for Delivery, or Delivered, you may use a third-party app integration with Omnisend. You may check various applications and integrations, including those that can be integrated through Zapier; among the direct integrations, Omnisend has, AfterShip will accomplish this task.

Once integrated, the application will start passing the events with different statuses that can be used in the Automation trigger settings.

Reports

Like all other E-commerce features, Shipping Confirmation reports are available in the Reports tab. It contains the standard list of reports: number of emails sent, open rate, click rate, sales generated, and removed. A month-by-month view and Activity feed with detailed information is also available.

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