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Use case · Cross-industry

New customer onboarding journey

Design a new-customer onboarding journey in Adobe Journey Optimizer: welcome series, activation milestones, preferences capture and measurement.

Quick answer

An onboarding journey welcomes new customers, guides them to their first value milestone and captures preferences. It starts on a sign-up or account-opened event, branches on activation milestones, adapts channels to consent and exits once the customer is active. Measure time-to-first-value and 30-day activation against a holdout.

How it works

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Use-case flow from signal to measurement.

Trigger and data needed

Trigger: account created, policy issued or first order event

  • Sign-up or account-opened event
  • Activation milestone events
  • Preferences and consent
  • Product or plan held

Audience and journey logic

  1. Enter on the account-created event
  2. Send a welcome message on day 0
  3. Branch on whether the first milestone happened
  4. Send a how-to nudge if not
  5. Ask for preferences to personalise later messages
  6. Exit when the customer reaches active status

Channels

  • Email
  • SMS
  • Push
  • In-app

How to measure it

  • Time to first value
  • 30-day activation rate vs holdout
  • Preference capture rate

Guardrails

  • Respect quiet hours and consent
  • Avoid overlapping with transactional messages
  • Exit on complaints or opt-outs

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