Convert more customers at scale
Nurture customers with an always-on presence. Scale and maintain more relevant interactions with messages that are specific to their needs and behaviors.
Marketing Automation Flows
Automate your marketing. Deliver better emails.
Drive more repeat business, increase customer retention, and see up to 4x more orders by creating marketing automation flows.*
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Discover new ways to automate
Get recommendations on new ways to engage with your audience and quickly implement proven automation strategies specific to your business with pre-built flows.
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Create a connected experience
Integrate data from your favorite apps and web services to capitalize with customers at key moments - no matter how they interact with your business.
With automated emails built using marketing automation flows*, Mailchimp customers saw up to 127% increase in click rates compared to bulk emails.
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†See Free Trial Terms and Offer Terms. Send up to 100 emails without payment info.
Overagesapply if contact or email send limit is exceeded. Free plan sending will be paused if contact or email send limit is exceeded. Learn more.
†See Free Trial Terms and Offer Terms.
Overagesapply if contact or email send limit is exceeded. Free plan sending will be paused if contact or email send limit is exceeded. Learn more.
Flexible automations that adapt to fit your goals—and the needs of your customers
Design flows to take customers from prospect to purchase
Visually create automated experiences that you can customize to fit your business goals and adapt to your customer’s behaviors.
Make every message relevant for every customer
Trigger automations based on any of your data points to deliver more personalized emails and SMS* to customers across your audience, driving more site traffic and sales.
Get insights to make smarter marketing decisions
Understand how customers are interacting with your brand so you can make better decisions about how best to engage them and keep them coming back.
What's new in Mailchimp?
Deliver personalized experiences over email & SMS with advanced generative AI and marketing automation flows
Fully built automation strategies. Customizable to fit your marketing goals.
Find new ways to automate your marketing with our library of fully customizable flow templates. Using marketing best practices, customer behaviors, and data analytics, we’ll recommend an automation that fits your business strategy.
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Welcome new contacts
Welcome new subscribers and build your relationships with relevant messages and shopping opportunities.
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Turn on abandoned cart reminders
Send targeted emails to shoppers who leave without completing their purchase. Suggest new items or offer a discount to convince them to buy.
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Email tagged customers
Use the power of tags to respond automatically to a customer’s behavior.
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Create repeat customers
Encourage shoppers to become loyal returning customers with post-sale promotions.
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Welcome pop-up form subscribers
Start nurturing new relationships for customers who subscribed via your pop-up form.
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Celebrate customer birthdays
Build customer relationships with a birthday treat.
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Send automated order confirmation
Send notifications to your customers immediately after a purchase.
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Promote cross-sell opportunities
Give customers the opportunity to enhance their purchase with cross-sell promotions.
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Encourage online reviews
Sometimes customers need a nudge to post a review. This quick request could do the trick.
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Collect customer feedback
Build customer relationships while gathering useful feedback on products, services, and more.
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Find new customers with Facebook Lead Ads via Zapier
Convert leads from Facebook Lead Ads with automated welcome emails.
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Split test punchy subject lines
Optimize your automation flows with a data-driven split test that helps you understand which subject lines encourage folks to open and read your email.
“In terms of generating sales, we see that across pretty much every campaign that we run, it results in somebody buying something—even if we're not directly going out and selling a product through the campaign.”
Dru Jaeger, Club Soda Co-Founder
“Automations Flows help us be more efficient and productive, because by inputting all the information, we just need to let the magic happen.”
7.4% Click-through rate in welcome flows as of June 2023
13% Online sales made via email in 2022
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Automatically pass data between web services without a single line of code.
FAQs
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Mailchimp's AI analytics examine when your subscribers are most likely to engage with emails. Send time optimization looks at historical click rate trends and predicts the best times to send based on patterns from the past year. Meanwhile, send day optimization considers your industry to recommend which day of the week will get you the best results.
These recommendations are based on actual engagement data from your audience and similar businesses, taking the guesswork out of scheduling.
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You can activate an Automations Flow on Mailchimp by clicking the Continue button once your Marketing Automation Flows map is good to go. From there, you can select a marketing objective and push Turn On. Marketing objectives basically help us ensure you receive recommendations and reports that are specific to your goals. If your objectives change later as your business grows, you can always update them.
Once the Marketing Automation Flow is activated, users will be funneled into the map as certain conditions are met. -
To build an effective Automations Flow map, it’s a good idea to first choose a Starting Point. A Starting Point is an activity that kicks off the Automations Flow. A Starting Point can occur when a user abandons their cart, doesn’t open a campaign, or celebrates their birthday. You can also add Flow Points, which are rules and actions that determine the pace and path that contacts take in a Automations Flow map.
As you create a Automations Flow map, try to identify milestones that you want shoppers to hit. The right journey points allow you to stay top of mind and ensure potential clients don’t stray too far from your business. -
An Automations Flow map helps you visualize the different paths a contact can take. The end goal of many Marketing Automation Flows is to remain top of mind as contacts are funneled through the map. Doing so can help you turn contacts into customers. That said, you can also create an Automations Flow map that aligns with your marketing goals.
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A Marketing Automation Flows is a tool that Mailchimp users can leverage to meet their marketing objectives. You’ll find Pre-Built Flows that can kickstart the mapping process. Plus, Pre-Built Flows are also customizable, so you can ensure every step is tailored to your business and customers. You can also build an Automations Flow map from scratch.
*Disclaimers
- Up to 4x more orders through users' connected stores versus when they used bulk emails. CJB only available on paid plans. Features and functionality vary by plan.
- Marketing Automation Flows only available on paid plans. Features and functionality of CJB vary by plan.
- SMS is available as an add-on to US paid plans only and SMS credits are added to your account after purchase. Application and agreement to terms is required before purchasing credits. Credits are issued monthly and unused credits expire and do not roll over. Pricing varies. See terms for details.