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Welcome email sequences for new customers and members

**Purpose**

1.1. Automate structured delivery of engaging welcome emails to new customers and members upon account creation or signup.
1.2. Enable personalized onboarding, promote amenities, share rules, announce membership perks, upsell upgrades, and establish brand connection.
1.3. Improve customer retention, encourage early repeat visits, facilitate smooth introduction to the amusement center’s ecosystem and loyalty offerings.
1.4. Enhance customer data collection by guiding users to profile completion and preference updates via email prompts.

**Trigger Conditions**

2.1. New user registration through website, mobile app, POS system, or external ticketing system.
2.2. Payment record of first-time purchase or membership signup in CRM or payment gateway.
2.3. Manual entry by staff via CRM interface or API endpoint.
2.4. Guest opt-in for newsletter or promotional updates during event booking or online waiver submission.

**Platform Variants**

3.1. Mailchimp
 • Feature: Automation Journey
 • Setting: Trigger on new list addition; configure “Welcome Series” automation for new members.
3.2. SendGrid
 • Feature: Marketing Campaigns Automation
 • Setting: Use “Automation” → “Welcome Email Sequence” with dynamic fields for personalization on new signup API call.
3.3. ActiveCampaign
 • Feature: Automations
 • Setting: Configure flow triggered by “Contact added to list”; add conditional split for member vs. standard customer.
3.4. HubSpot
 • Feature: Workflows
 • Setting: Trigger “Contact Created” workflow; email sequence with personalization tokens and follow-up delays.
3.5. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
 • Feature: Journey Builder
 • Setting: Entry Event—“Contact Added to Data Extension”; create email touchpoints and action splits.
3.6. Klaviyo
 • Feature: Flows
 • Setting: Trigger “Signup” event; configure multi-email onboarding flow, optimize for mobile.
3.7. Constant Contact
 • Feature: Automated Email Series
 • Setting: Configure series for “New Contact” in audience; add up to 5 tiered welcome emails.
3.8. Drip
 • Feature: Workflows
 • Setting: Triggered by “Submitted signup form”; sequence emails and custom tags for visit history.
3.9. Moosend
 • Feature: Automation Workflow
 • Setting: “When subscriber joins list” action initiates sequence; segment by source of signup.
3.10. Zoho Campaigns
 • Feature: Autoresponder
 • Setting: Configure “Signup based” autoresponder; time-delayed intro, FAQ, and upsell mails.
3.11. Omnisend
 • Feature: Automation
 • Setting: Trigger by “Signup” or “Purchase”; multi-step series, cart reminder add-on.
3.12. MailerLite
 • Feature: Automation
 • Setting: “When subscriber joins group” triggers series; dynamic content block support.
3.13. Brevo (ex-Sendinblue)
 • Feature: Email Automation
 • Setting: “Contact added to list” → “Send welcome email” task chain, A/B test subject lines.
3.14. Google Workspace (Apps Script)
 • Feature: Apps Script + Gmail API
 • Setting: Detect Sheets row addition; send template and log to CRM.
3.15. Microsoft Power Automate
 • Feature: Template Flows
 • Setting: “When a new row is added in Excel/Forms,” “Send Outlook email”; branch by user type.
3.16. Customer.io
 • Feature: Campaign Workflow
 • Setting: “Created at” trigger; flow with behavioral splits for family/membership tier.
3.17. Intercom
 • Feature: Series
 • Setting: “User signed up” automatic entry; define touchpoints and in-app/email steps.
3.18. GetResponse
 • Feature: Marketing Automation
 • Setting: “Subscribe” event triggers multi-day welcome flow; add tags for later targeting.
3.19. Elastic Email
 • Feature: Automation
 • Setting: “Contact joins list” condition; set up series of welcome and upsell emails.
3.20. Mandrill
 • Feature: Transactional API
 • Setting: Trigger transactional email on signup endpoint callback with merge tags for names and ticket types.
3.21. Amazon SES + Lambda
 • Feature: Lambda function
 • Setting: “New user event” in S3/DynamoDB; Lambda sends templated SES email.
3.22. Twilio SendGrid API
 • Feature: API v3 / Marketing Campaigns
 • Setting: POST to /marketing/contacts then trigger automation for welcome series.
3.23. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot)
 • Feature: Engagement Studio
 • Setting: “Form fill” or “List addition” triggers multistep nurturing, include membership upgrades.

**Benefits**

4.1. Immediate, consistent, and error-free new customer communication.
4.2. Accelerated onboarding, enhancing customer satisfaction and understanding of offerings.
4.3. Increased likelihood of early conversion to membership or repeat visits through targeted messaging.
4.4. Automated data collection and segmentation to power future engagement and targeted marketing.
4.5. Significant reduction in manual staff intervention, freeing resources for in-person guest service.

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