Journey Components

The panel at the right hand side contains all components that can be added to the journey. Hover a component to display the tooltip.

When these components are used on the canvas, the icon colors are inverted.

Data

Data Component — Save data in the database, in an Audience List or profile extension.

Lookup Component — Look for a specific contact in an Audience List using constraints.

Custom Component — Use either a Web or Stored Procedure Custom Component to manage data in the database.

Validation Component — Validate a specific constraint and depending on the result choose a different path in the journey.

Event Data Component — Save data in the database, but only in Custom Events Lists.

 

Interaction

Page — Page content shown to the contact.

Email — Email being sent.

SMS — The SMS content to be sent to the mobile number of the contact.

MMS — The MMS content to be sent to the mobile number of the contact.

Mobile Message — Notification pushed to the mobile device and displayed on the lock screen and in the message center.

Redirect — Redirects contacts to another journey or external URL.

Meta Custom Audience — Adds contacts to the Meta Audience List.

Google Customer Match — Adds contacts to the Google Customer Match list.

Snapchat Audience — Adds contacts to the Snapchat Audience.

X Tailored Audience — Adds contacts to the 'X' (formerly Twitter) Audience.

Custom channel — Use any of the custom channels defined.

 

Entry points

Input — Either the starting point of the journey or an entry point to the journey.

Recurring Batch — The entry point of a journey that is executed repeatedly at a given time frame.

Single Batch — The entry point of a journey that is executed once.

 

Event Entry points

Custom Event — Entry point for event-driven journeys, to trigger Custom Event data defined in Audience Lists and react upon them.

Inbound Event — Currently used as an entry point for incoming SMS messages that can be scanned for keywords and acted upon accordingly.

Retargeting Event — Entry point to Retargeting Journeys and automatically exposed for use in Site. Pages in this journey can be used for display on Site pages.

Abandoned Cart Event — Entry point to Abandoned Cart Journeys that can be used in Site.

 

Audiences

Audience Filter — Defines a filter on the selected journey audience .

Select & Optimize

Rule Based Split — Splits the journey path based on specific audience values .

Random Split — Splits the entire audience in different groups to follow a different path.

Wait — Allows setting a delay on the execution of the next step .

Wave — Allows sending messages out in waves..

Sample — Allows sending messages to a sample of records in a list.

Control Group — Allows splitting the audience in a test group and a control group.

AB component — Allows testing different version of a message and sending the winner to the remaining audience.

Delivery Optimization — Makes it possible to send out messages at an optimized send-time, when the contact is most likely to interact with the message, based on previous interactions (or a fallback STO time).

 

Miscellaneous

Note — Allows adding notes to the Journey canvas.

 

Example : Create, configure and use a Custom Journey for a user registration flow

 

Test your knowledge about Journey components

Which of the following Custom Journeys will show validation errors ?

Journey 1


Journey 2


Journey 3


Journey 4