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Cross-sell & Recommendations

Take a segment, work out what each person should buy next from what they already bought, and send it.

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You bought it three weeks ago. These are the two things people buy next, and the first one fits it exactly.

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What it is

  • A cross-sell flow emails a saved segment with a product recommendation chosen per person.
  • The pick comes from purchase history and catalogue tags, not from a single product you decided to push.
  • Email rather than WhatsApp, because merchandising needs room for several products and images.
  • It sends at most two emails, and stops as soon as an order lands.

Who runs it

  • Brands with a catalogue deep enough that the right next product is not obvious.
  • Categories with natural pairings: fashion, beauty, refillables, anything with accessories.
  • Brands with an existing customer base worth reading, rather than a list they have just started building.
  • This is the newest flow in the library. No brand on Nonito has a production history with it yet.

How it works

  • A saved segment starts the flow, typically people with one order and nothing since.
  • For each person, the flow reads their purchase history and the catalogue tags to pick a next product.
  • The email builder composes the campaign around that personalised block.
  • Five days later, the flow checks for an order and stops if one arrived.
  • If none did, a second email goes out with a pick from a different category.

Why it works

  • What someone bought is the strongest signal you have about what they will buy next.
  • A recommendation chosen per person reads as useful. The same product sent to everyone reads as a campaign.
  • Email gives merchandising the room it needs, which a message cannot.
  • Stopping on the first order means nobody is chased for something they have already bought.

The Next Sale Is Hidden In The Last One.

Complete the look for fashion. Stay top of mind for refillables. The information needed to work out what somebody should buy next is already sitting in what they bought last, and for most brands nothing is reading it.

The starting point

Start from a segment, not the whole list

Usually people with one order and nothing since. The flow runs on who they are, not on a date.

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This is the newest flow in the library and the only one with no production history behind it. Treat the guidance here as reasoning, not as results.

Recommend from history

What this person bought, and what people like them bought next. Different for everyone.

Recommend what you want to move

The same product to the whole segment. Easier to set up, and it reads as a campaign because it is one.

What You Give, What You Get

What you give already exists in your store. What you get comes back automatically.

What you give

  • Purchase history
  • Email address
  • Catalogue tags
  • Stock levelsoptional
  • Browsing behaviouroptional

What you get

  • A per-customer recommendation
  • A campaign built without a designer
  • A second touch, only where needed
  • Data on what pairs with what

What Makes It Work, And What Breaks It

The difference between recovering orders and annoying people is in these details.

Do this

  • Recommend from history, not from stock

    What you need to move and what they should buy next are different questions. Only one of them converts.

  • Name what they already own

    In the subject line. It is the difference between a recommendation and a newsletter.

  • Stop the moment they buy

    A second email after an order reads as a system that is not paying attention.

  • Change category on the second email

    If the first pick missed, more of the same will miss too.

  • Tag the catalogue first

    A small well-tagged catalogue recommends better than a large messy one. This is the work before the flow.

  • Check stock before recommending

    Sending someone to a sold-out product is worse than sending nothing.

What goes wrong

  • The same product to the whole segment

    It is a campaign wearing a recommendation's clothes, and the open rate will tell you.

  • An untagged catalogue

    The picks come out random, and random recommendations teach people to ignore the channel.

  • A segment that never refreshes

    The same people get the same email repeatedly, which is how a list stops being one.

  • Recommending the thing they just bought

    Exclude recent purchases explicitly. It is the most common and most damaging bug in this flow.

  • Treating it as a first flow

    It needs purchase history to read. Run it after confirmation, cart and delivery are live.

See how it is builtThe real builder canvas, with the setup direction on every node.
Cross-sell & Recommendations in the flow builder6 nodes
TriggersGet Audience
Segment
Bought once, no order since

Build the segment before the flow. It decides everything downstream.

RecommendationsProduct Recommendations
Source
Purchase history + tags

Exclude recent purchases, or you will recommend what they just bought.

MessagingEmail
Built with
AI email builder

Built around the personalised block, not around a template.

TimingWait
Duration
5 days

Five days is long enough to act, short enough to still be relevant.

LogicSkip If
Skip when
Order already placed

Anyone who bought is dropped here.

MessagingEmail
Content
Second pick, new category

A different category, not more of the same.

Click and drag to move around the canvas, pinch or scroll to zoom
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Before you start

  • Purchase history synced into Nonito.
  • A tagged catalogue, so products relate to each other.
  • A saved segment to start from.
  • A verified sending domain for email.

Every node carries its own setup direction. Drag the canvas to move around it, or open it full screen.

Questions About This Flow

Why email rather than WhatsApp?

Merchandising needs room: several products, images, a bit of story. WhatsApp carries the transactional moments; email carries the longer sell.

How good are the recommendations on a small catalogue?

They lean on tags and collections, so a small well-tagged catalogue often performs better than a large messy one. The tagging is the work.

What results should we expect?

We do not have production data for this flow yet. It is the newest in the library and no brand on Nonito has a meaningful history with it. Everything on this page is reasoning, not results.

Should this be one of our first flows?

No. It needs purchase history to read from. Run confirmation, abandoned cart and delivery updates first, then come back to this.

How do we stop it recommending something they just bought?

Exclude recent purchases in the recommendations node. It is the most common bug in this kind of flow and the most damaging.

How long does it take to go live?

Same day once the segment exists and your sending domain is verified. There is no template approval for email.

Run It Alongside

The flows that protect the order you just recovered.

See It Running On Your Own Store.

We will connect your store, switch this flow on, and show you what it recovers. Setup takes an afternoon, and you keep everything it builds.

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