Order Reminder SMS Automation

Hi @VinnieT, welcome to the Community!

From your post, it sounds like you want to create a flow that sends an SMS to existing customers who have not placed a repeat order, on a weekly basis. If I misunderstand, please let me know. 

There are a couple of problems that will make this flow technically difficult. At this time, Klaviyo cannot filter by time or date of an event, so there is no way to restrict messages to profiles who did not order on specific days of the week, which appears necessary for your cutoff.

Though the time delay can be configured to wait for a certain time of day and day of the week to send the message, it won’t always result in a weekly SMS for your customers. 

For example, as you have it in your screenshot with a 0 day delay on Thursday at 12:30 pm, someone could place an order on Wednesday, and if they do not place another order by Thursday at 12:30 they will receive your SMS only one day after placing their order.

If you used a 7 day delay to ensure a week went by, they would only receive it if they don’t place an order in those seven days. However if someone orders on a Saturday, the message would not send until the next Thursday after 7 days had passed. In other words they would go without a message for 12 days.  

It sounds like your product is recurring, so if you have not already, it may be worth it to consider a subscription payment partner such as Recharge or Recurly, depending on your ecommerce platform. This would change your business model from an “opt-in” to “Opt-out” model, but you would be able to send your customers sms reminders about their upcoming renewal if they need to make adjustments. 

I hope this was helpful, and if I misunderstood the context of your flow, please let me know!