Automate Customer Interactions with Delays and Approvals
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Streamline your customer communication by automating message delivery with controlled delays and incorporating essential external approval steps. This workflow ensures efficient, paced outreach and critical gatekeeping for your customer-facing processes.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow orchestrates sophisticated customer interactions by first retrieving customer data and then systematically sending messages with a built-in delay. It simulates rate limiting to prevent overwhelming services or customers. Crucially, it introduces an approval step where an external event, like a merchant clicking an approval link, must occur before the workflow can proceed. This ensures critical actions are only executed after necessary external validation, making it ideal for processes requiring a human touch or external confirmation. The workflow gracefully handles the completion of tasks, ensuring a smooth transition to subsequent steps.
Key Features
- Paced Customer Messaging: Automatically send messages to customers with configurable delays between each.
- External Approval Gatekeeping: Integrate human or external system approval into your automated workflows via webhooks.
- Data-Driven Interactions: Leverage customer data to personalize your communications.
- Efficient Batch Processing: Handle multiple customer records systematically.
How To Use
- Initiate Workflow: Click the 'Execute Workflow' button to start the process.
- Observe Data Retrieval: The
Customer Datastorenode fetches customer information. - Process in Batches: The
SplitInBatchesnode prepares records for individual processing. - Introduce Delays: The
Wait for time intervalnode creates a pause (e.g., 2 seconds) between sending messages to customers. - Send Customer Messages: The
Customer Messenger - Send message to clientnode delivers personalized messages. - Check for Completion: The
If - Are we Finished?node determines if all customer records have been processed. - Generate Approval URL: If not finished,
Create approval URLgenerates a unique link for external approval. - Send Approval Request: The
Customer Messenger - Send URL to merchantnode dispatches the approval link via your chosen channel. - Wait for Approval: The
Wait for external approvalnode pauses the workflow until the webhook is triggered by the external event. - Continue Workflow: Once approved, the
Rest of the workflow placeholdernode signifies that subsequent actions can now be executed.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "f51f2dc7-138b-42ed-b5e9-0bbe15b48bd1",
"name": "Automate Customer Interactions with Delays and Approvals",
"nodes": 11,
"category": "Marketing",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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