Ecommerce Email Marketing Benchmark Report - Klaviyo
2026-03-10 19:47 Diff

The companies we looked at brought in over $50 million in Q4 using automation. They set up behavior-triggered email sequences, or automated email flows, in advance and let them run.

Once the flows were up and running, the marketing teams at these companies could focus on the busy holiday season while the emails essentially sent themselves.

The flows automatically sent on their own when a customer triggered them by:

Leaving items in a shopping cartPurchasing from a certain collectionGoing for a certain number of months without making a purchase

These are just a few examples. There are endless combinations of conditions that can trigger an email flow.

We analyzed the results from four common email flows: welcome series, abandoned cart emails, browse abandonment emails, and customer winback emails.

Welcome series are a way to bring in new customers, often with a discount on a first purchase or access to a downloadable ebook or other asset. They’re also an opportunity to share your company’s story.
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Abandoned cart emails are sent to shoppers who add items to their cart and go through part of the checkout process but fail to complete a purchase within a designated amount of time. Given that 7 out of 10 shopping carts get abandoned, there’s a lot of opportunity here to recover revenue.
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Browse abandonment emails are sent to shoppers who view products but didn’t add them to their cart. The initial setup for these emails may require a bit more work, but the payoff is well worth it.
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Winback emails, also known as re-engagement emails, are sent to customers who made a purchase (typically 3, 6, or 12 months ago) but not since. They’re a powerful way to reach and re-activate dormant customers.
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