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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 an AfterShip Automation
- Send branded notifications for shipping statuses like in transit, out for delivery, delivered, and failed attempts.
- Proactively notify your customers via Postscript when items ship or shipping delays occur.
Create an AfterShip Automation
- Select Messaging in the side menu of your Postscript dashboard, then select Automations.
- Select Create Automation in the top-right corner of the page.
- Choose Custom Automation.
- Give your automation a name. We recommend you give it a name that indicates its purpose (i.e. AfterShip - In Transit, AfterShip - Order Delivered, etc.)
- Select your AfterShip related trigger from the Automation Trigger drop-down.
- AfterShip: Delivered: Notifies the customer that their order has been delivered at their place of residence.
- AfterShip: Failed Attempt: Notifies a customer of a failed attempt to deliver the order. You can include a link to the order tracking page where the customer can get more information on the error and necessary next steps.
- AfterShip: In Transit: Notifies the customer that their order is on the move. You can include a link to the order tracking page so the customer can stay up-to-date.
- AfterShip: Out for Delivery: Notifies the customer that their order is out for delivery with the carrier.
- Select Save & Continue to Messages in the bottom-right corner of the page.
- 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 from the Tag drop-down, then select Insert Tag. You can add multiple tags if desired.
- {tracking_number} provides the customer with their order number, should they need to contact your support team.
- {tracking_company} notifies the customer of the shipping carrier in possession of their order.
- {shipping_link} populates a dynamic link to the customer's unique order tracking page.
- Once done, select Save Automation in the bottom-right corner of the page.
- Last, make sure to toggle the Enabled button on the automation details page so it appears blue.
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