How to Quickly Test Abandoned Cart Emails After Creating a Campaign

Introduction

Testing your abandoned cart email campaigns is an essential step to ensure everything works perfectly before they go live. By quickly testing your reminders, you can verify the settings, check the email content, and ensure the campaign is effective in recovering abandoned carts. Here’s a simple guide to testing abandoned cart emails using the Abandoned Cart Reminder module.

How to Quickly Test Abandoned Cart Emails

Follow these steps to test your abandoned cart email campaign efficiently:

1. Set Up Short Reminder Times for Testing

   • Go to the reminders in your campaign that need testing.
   • Set a very short delay for sending the emails so they are sent almost immediately after the conditions are met.
   • If the slider cannot be adjusted to such a short time, click the “Here” link below the slider to manually input your desired timing and save the configuration.
   • Space each reminder a few minutes apart to distinguish between emails during testing.

2. Example Configuration:

   Let’s say you have created a campaign targeting carts with a total value between $200 and $500. You want to test the following setup:

   • Reminder 1: Sent after 0.01 hours (approximately 0.6 minutes), offering a 20% discount.
   • Reminder 2: Sent after 0.05 hours (approximately 3 minutes), offering a 30% discount.

3. Simulate Abandoned Cart Behavior on the Frontend

   • Log in to your website’s frontend using a test account.
   • Add products to your cart that meet the campaign’s conditions (e.g., cart value between $200 and $500).

4. Monitor Email Delivery for Reminder 1

   • Wait for 0.6 minutes (or the time set for Reminder 1).
   • Open the inbox of the email account used for the test account.
   • If Reminder 1 has been delivered, it confirms the setup is correct. Check the content of the email to ensure everything is as expected.

5. Monitor Email Delivery for Reminder 2

   • Continue to avoid completing the checkout process.
   • After 3 minutes (or the time set for Reminder 2), check your email inbox again.
   • If Reminder 2 is delivered successfully, it confirms that the second reminder has been properly set up.

6. Repeat for Additional Reminders

   • If your campaign includes more reminders, you can follow the same process by setting short times for each reminder and testing them one by one.

Conclusion

By setting up short test intervals and simulating customer behavior, you can ensure that your abandoned cart email campaigns are working as intended. Testing allows you to verify email content, timing, and discounts before running the campaign for actual customers.

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