Birthday

You may want to contact your customers on their birthday and wish them all the best, or perhaps offer them something special (recommendations, discount coupon...). To do this, you have to have a customer attribute in date format with customer birthday. After that, you can create a scenario that will send out emails on a daily basis to people whose birthday is on that day.

• Create a new scenario, and add a repeat trigger, a condition, and an email

• Set the repeat trigger to "daily" at the desired time

• Create a condition for customers whose birthday matches the current day and month

• Select a desired email template

Nameday

It is also possible to send customers emails on their name day, and it is possible to identify their name day based on their name from an imported catalog.

• Import a catalog with the following attributes:
  • item_id - this will be a name that a customer can input when registering. Be sure to include multiple combinations of special characters/capital letters, as it needs to be a perfect match, e.g. have different ids for Martin, martin and MARTIN
  • addressingname - this is an attribute you will use in the email, and will always be in correct form, e.g. martin is associated with Martin
  • gender (optional) - you can directly assign gender to names to have this attribute stored with the customers
  • nameday - a timestamp with the correct date. This can be a date of any year

It should look similar to this:

• Create a scenario where attributes will be assigned to customers daily based on the catalog. This scenario should run before any emailing is attempted.
  • Add a repeat trigger, a condition node, and three set attribute nodes

• Set the condition only for customers not having nameday and addressing_name assigned yet, but first_name has value.

• For each you should set attribute node, pair the attributes with their respective fields in the catalog using also Jinja as below, where:
  • nameday in catalogs.nameday.item is catalog name
  • first_name is the attribute you use for storing first name of the customer
  • nameday in item.nameday is the attribute you have in your catalog. This will be the only thing replaced when setting attributes for gender and addressing name.

{% set item = catalogs.nameday.item_by_id(customer.first_name | trim) %}{{item.nameday }}

• Now repeat steps of creating the birthday scenario above, only replacing the birthday attribute with the nameday attribute.