The purpose of the Wave component is to send out emails, not in one blast but in multiple waves. E.g. you have a contest on your website which hands out a very popular price. If you want to avoid the contest page to go down from too much traffic, you can send the Selligent invitation email in multiple waves instead of all at once.
The size of the wave or the number of waves is predefined. However, the journey itself is still configured as a 'single shot'.
Events
The Wave component generates one event: onWave. For each wave the predefined number of emails is sent out..
Properties
A choice can be made between 2 types of waves:
- Number of items: enter the number of items that must be processed during one wave. This corresponds to the number of emails that are sent out during one wave.
- Number of waves: enter the maximum number of waves. If the number of contacts changes, the number of contacts in a wave is recalculated automatically.
- Wave interval: define the time interval between two waves. The first wave is launched when the journey is executed.
NOTE: A wave
is only executed when the previous one has been completed. If a time interval
of for instance 60 minutes is set between two waves, the next wave will
only start 60 minutes after the end of the execution of the previous wave.
This must be taken into account when planning the execution and definition
of the journey.
You cannot speed up delivery with a wave component. It is no use setting
the Wave component to 100000 items every minute if the mail transfer system
can handle 5000 mails per minute. The number of mails you can send per
minute is defined by a number of factors (available IP addresses, reputation,
etc.)
