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| Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Jun 17, 2025 |
- | Jul 2025 |
Business value
Safeguarding your brand's reputation and customer trust is critical. In the face of unplanned or unforeseen events, such as natural disasters, you might need to pause certain campaigns that could be inappropriate or insensitive. Additionally, you might encounter business or operational reasons for stopping a campaign, such as needing to update some content or experiencing an unexpected call center outage. In these scenarios, it's best to halt customer outreach until you resolve the problem.
Instead of stopping a campaign and adjusting the audience to exclude previously reached customers, you can now pause and resume journeys, making it easy and stress-free to manage unplanned situations.
Feature details
Protect your brand's reputation and maintain customer trust by pausing outreach during unexpected events like natural disasters or periods of national mourning.
- Pause a journey manually to prevent new customers from entering.
- Resume a journey manually so new customers can enter.
- Stop the paused journey if needed.
Scenario example: A national bank is conducting a campaign across the country to contact borrowers who are behind on their mortgage payments and are at risk of foreclosure. When a natural disaster strikes and a state of emergency is declared, continuing this outreach would be seen as insensitive. Previously, the bank had to stop the journey and launch a new journey with an updated audience (to avoid contacting the same customers again) after the situation improved - a process that was both labor-intensive and prone to errors. With the new journey pause capability, the bank can effortlessly pause the outreach and resume it once conditions allow.
