For marketers, it's very important how easily and perfectly you can implement the customer engagement strategy that you have in mind. That's where Growlytics journeys help you to visually build logical workflows using journey designer, a drag and drop tool where you can define and connect different logical blocks like checking for user segment, sending messages, waiting for time, etc.

To go forward, we will take an example of an abandoned cart journey. We will be drafting a journey to target those customers who added products to the cart but didn't make any purchase. After adding an item to the cart, if they don't make a purchase, we will send him an email. If he doesn't purchase within 24 hours, we will send him a WhatsApp reminder if the customer is our loyal customer, otherwise, we will send him an SMS.

To create a journey, you can follow below steps:

A new journey draft will be created and you will be asked to use any existing templates to use for a quick start. You can select a suitable template or you can start designing your journey from scratch.

Once the journey created, the next step is to implement your workflow strategy using journey editor. Journey editor is basically a drag & drop editor to visually implement your workflow strategy.

The first step of the journey will be the entry step, entry step is nothing but an event that will start the journey. When the customer will perform the action mentioned in the journey, a journey will start for that customer. In addition to specifying the event to start the journey, you can also mention event filters in case if you want to only run the journey when the event's property values are matching.

For our example, we will use "Add To Cart" as an entry point. Also, let's say you only want to run the journey if the price of the item added to the cart is more than $100. In this case, you can specify the "Add To Cart" event and mention a filter having a cart value of more than $100.

After defining the entry point, we will add a "Wait For Event" step. Wait For Event step is used to wait for a given time and see if the customer is doing anything in a given time. We can take further actions based on whether the customer is taking any action or not.

For our abandoned cart journey, we will add the "Wait For Event" step, and the event to wait for will be "Purchased". The purchased event represents a customer placing an order on your site. We will keep the wait time to 4 hours.

After adding the wait step, next we will add the "Send Email" step. With Send Email step, you can send an email to the customer with abandoned cart item details.

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After defining the send email step, we will add a "Wait For Event" step again. This time we will wait for 24 hours and see if the customer is making any purchase or not. The event to wait will be "Purchased" and the wait time will be 24 hours.

After adding 24 hours wait block, we will add the "Past Behaviour" block. Past Behaviour is basically a condition block that allows you to treat customers differently based on customer's attributes or past behaviour.

For our example, the condition for past behaviour will be, those customers who have made 3+ order from our website in the last 3 months. After configuring Past Behaviour Node, we will map step result "Yes" to "Send WhatsApp" step and result "No" to "Send SMS" step.

After adding the Behaviour step, next, we will add the "Send WhatsApp" step to send an abandoned cart WhatsApp message.

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After adding the Behaviour step, next, we will add the "Send SMS" step to send abandoned cart SMS.

While you are creating a journey, do keep saving the journey draft to make sure you are not losing any journey changes.

Once you have finalized the journey steps and journey campaign contents, you can publish the journey.