- Bounced (Hard) Email Addresses
- >1x
- Over All-Time
- = 170 Members → HOW ARE OPEN, CLICK, AND ORDER VALUES POSSIBLE ON HARD BOUNCES?
- Open Rate: 33.64%
- Click Rate: 17.13%
- AOV: $155 Past 30 Days
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How Is It Possible For a Hard Bounced Email To Have Opened, Clicked Into a Campaign, and Purchased?
Hi
I saw this topic and immediately went “That’s a great question!”
I’ve never come across this instance myself, but I suppose it could have been possible for email activity to have been recorded for a specific Profile before the Hard Bounce occurred.
For example, let’s say in this case the Hard Bounce was caused by the email address no longer being active (i.e. email account was deleted by user). In theory, this person could have been engaging with emails before this took place, and upon the next Campaign send we observed a Hard Bounce on their Profile due to the invalid email address and they were subsequently suppressed.
Have you ever emailed someone and gotten the “This email address no longer exists” auto-responder? It would be the same idea as the scenario I am describing above.
This would be my best guess!
-- Ashley Ismailovski
Hard Bounces can be defined as a dead email or an email that soft bounced “X” amount of times (I believe the klaviyo backend has it labeled as 3 soft bounces in a row, but could be wrong here).
Also I believe you are missing rule is missing a filter to separate the Hard Bounces.
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Jumping in to clarify Klaviyo automatically suppresses profiles that soft bounce 7 consecutive times. :)
I pulled a segment in one of my accounts to spot check & see what the case might be for this! I created a segment of people who have hard bounced at least once over all time, and have opened an email at least once over all time.
In my spot checks, it seems like the most common situation is:
- Subscribed at purchase
- Engaged with emails for awhile
- Soft bounced a few times first
- Eventually hard bounced
I’ve found that clicking into specific profiles in the account like this is the best way for me to tell what’s going on in unique situations like this.
Thanks for asking this question, it’s not a topic I’ve considered before!
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