Wait on segment membership to trigger the next step in a journey

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Enabled for Public preview Early access General availability
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Nov 2024 - Feb 2025

Business value

Gain even more control over your customers' experience by waiting for them to become a member of a segment before continuing to the next steps in a journey. This added capability lets you personalize each customer's experience by choosing the correct path and actions relevant to individual customers based on whether they're in a segment. This capability adds to existing if/then capabilities that let you wait for a customer to open an email, click a link, or wait for another trigger to be activated before moving on to the next step in the journey.

For example, let's say you use your journey to send credit card activation emails and you want to wait for the customer to activate their card before sending a welcome email. If the customer doesn’t activate their credit card within a few days, you want to send another reminder email. If you have a segment that includes all customers who have activated credit cards, you can use that segment as the condition for the if/then branch to wait for each customer to activate their credit card and send them the right communications.

Feature details

Create journeys that wait until a customer becomes part of a segment before continuing to the next steps in the journey.

  • Choose a segment as the condition for an if/then branching step.
  • Set the amount of time you want to wait for the customer to become a member of the segment before continuing.
  • Choose which actions to take if the customer is or is not a member of the segment.

If/then branch tile that is waiting for a customer to become a member of a segment