Receive a team notification when an email is skipped due to a catalog lookup error.

Hello @ryanw,

Thanks for sharing your feedback with the Klaviyo Community! 

At present, Klaviyo actually does already offer an in-app notification when a catalog sync issue is detected. However, these in-app notifications specific to the catalog are only available for custom catalogs. For catalogs that are synced through a native integration such as Shopify, these alerts are not available since these integrations do not provide Klaviyo with such specific details. Instead, you’ll still receive an in-app notification regarding any sync issues pertaining to your integration which would include any catalog sync issues. 

These alerts can then inform you of the next steps to alleviate the issue such as re-syncing your custom catalog or reviewing your native integration and taking the appropriate next steps such as resyncing your native integration’s catalog. You can also learn more about alerts and notifications from the About Account Notifications and Updates in Klaviyo Help Center article.

David

Hi, thanks for the response. I’m actually not looking for notifications of a failure to sync, I’m hoping for notifications of errors when a template attempts to look up a product in the catalog but can’t find it. This appears in the email analytics as “Skipped: Catalog Item Unavailable”, see screenshot. We’d like to receive a notification when these emails are skipped, so that we can ensure the customer receives that skipped information, and investigate why the item wasn’t found.

Hey @ryanw,

Thanks for those additional details! At present, Klaviyo does not have any messaging or notification pertaining to emails being skipped. I’ll share this feedback with our Product Team as I believe it would be a great feature to allow users to be more aware of an increased number of skipped emails. 

Thanks for being a part of the Klaviyo Community!

David

I just want to present a real world situation we had that could’ve been mitigated with some kind of error monitoring / notifications from klaviyo.

We mistakenly pushed a release that caused us to send emails via our Klaviyo Development account rather than our Klaviyo Production account. These two accounts have separate product catalogs with separate product IDs, and as a result all emails were failing to send with a Catalog Lookup error. Four days and 1500 dropped emails later we happened to notice our customers weren’t receiving their transactional emails, so we checked our Klaviyo analytics and found the “Skipped Emails”.

While this bug was of course our own fault, error notifications would have saved us some major Monday headaches.