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Customize your customer journeys with automations

Written by Farah Bahoui

Introduction

Customize your post-purchase experiences and build customer loyalty with Loyoly's new feature. From the first purchase to becoming a true ambassador, create smart journeys that drive engagement and encourage repeat purchases.


Why use automations?

Automations let you create custom customer journeys, giving each person an experience that really suits them. They also directly help improve customer loyalty.

1.More personalization

Each interaction is tailored to your customers’ preferences and behavior: purchase history, VIP level, engagement with missions, or social media activity.

2.More engagement

Automations help you engage your communities all year long with targeted actions:

  • Rewards for loyalty

  • Exclusive offers for specific segments

  • Double points activities

3.More business

By combining personalization and engagement, automations have a direct impact on your performance:

  • Increased repeat purchases through post-purchase vouchers or loyalty points

  • Higher average order value with targeted rewards on specific products or multiple orders

  • Stronger customer retention, reducing churn and maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV)


Create your first automation in 3 simple steps

Step 1: Choose a trigger

Select the event that will start your automation. Currently, available triggers are:

  • Order placed

  • Mission completed

  • Referral completed by the referrer

Step 2: Add filters

Refine your automation by adding specific criteria to target your customers, for example:

  • Cart value

  • Total number of purchases

  • Customer VIP level

  • Purchase of a specific product

Step 3: Define the action to execute

Choose the action that will be applied automatically to your customers based on the defined conditions, for example:

  • Award extra points

  • Add the customer to a targeted list

  • Offer a specific reward


Shopify product or collection deleted: impact on your automations

⚠️ Available for Shopify merchants only.

An automation can be set up to grant a reward or trigger an action based on the purchase of a specific Shopify product or collection. If that product or collection is removed from your store, Loyoly automatically detects the issue.

In the Loyoly BO, on the automation list:

  • A clear warning is displayed on the affected automation, indicating which product or collection no longer exists in Shopify,

  • You are prompted to update the automation (reference another product / collection) or to deactivate it.

Automation behavior depending on how many products or collections are referenced:

  • If all the referenced products / collections have been removed from Shopify → the automation is automatically deactivated. Triggers no longer fire, preventing unintended behavior in production.

  • If at least one product / collection is still valid → the automation remains active and keeps running on the products that are still available. The BO warning stays visible so you can fix the broken reference without urgency.

💡 Best practice: regularly review your list of active automations when running catalog operations (revamps, seasonal unpublications) to quickly catch any broken references, even when the automation keeps running thanks to another product.

💡To learn more about setting up automations, use our guide.

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