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Shipping notifications keep customers updated on the delivery of an order they placed with your shop. The notifications contribute to a positive customer experience and help minimize shipping inquiries for your customer service team.
What You Can Do With a Wonderment Automation
- Create highly-branded shipping notifications.
- Proactively notify customers regarding delayed shipments and failed deliveries via text.
Create a Wonderment Automation
You can create an automation message that provides shipping updates for your customers. This is possible through a combination of unique Wonderment automation triggers and their message tags.
- Select Messaging in the side menu of your Postscript dashboard, then select Automations.
- Select Create Automation in the top-right corner of the page.
- Select Custom Automation.
- From the Automation Trigger drop-down, select your desired Wonderment trigger.
- Attempted Delivery: Notifies the customer that the carrier attempted delivery at their residence.
- Carrier Picked Up: Notifies the customer that the carrier has picked up the order and it is no longer with your shop.
- Delivery Error: Notifies the customer there was an error in the delivery of their order.
- In Transit: Notifies the customer that their order is in transit to their residence.
- Out for Delivery: Notifies the customer that their order is out for delivery.
- Ready for Pickup: Notifies the customer that their order is ready for pickup at the carrier location.
- Shipment Confirmed: Notifies the customer that their order is confirmed for shipment.
- Shipment Delivered: Notifies the customer that their order has been delivered at their place of residence.
- Shipment Label Voided: Notifies the customer that a shipping label for their order was voided (in the event of an incorrect address or last-minute address change).
- Shipment Stalled: Notifies the customer of a delay in their order's delivery.
- Select Save & Continue to Messages in the bottom-right corner of the page.
Too many triggers? You can define your must-have Wonderment automation triggers on the Settings page of your Wonderment/Postscript configuration. Learn more here.
- Place your typing cursor where you want the tracking-related tag to go in the message.
- Select the blue More button above the message field, then select Add Tag from the options listed.
- Choose the tracking-related tag you wish to include in your message, then select the blue Insert Tag option.
- Once done, select Save Automation in the bottom-right corner of the page.
- Last, ensure your automation is live by toggling the status to Enabled.
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