Retention Science

AI-driven email marketing automation

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Overview

You want to send relevant, timely emails to your customers, and doing so heavily relies on the accuracy and freshness of the data in Retention Science. By automatically syncing customer data from your data warehouse into Retention Science, you no longer need to worry about data consistency because data is no longer flowing in from multiple sources in different formats, and your team can focus on drafting engaging emails and delivering delightful experiences.

Supported syncing

For more information about sync modes, refer to the sync modes docs.

Connect to Retention Science

Go to the Destinations overview page and click the Add destination button. Select Retention Science and click Continue. You can then authenticate Hightouch to Retention Science by entering a Retention Science API key.

To get your API Key, go to your ReSci dashboard. Click on the dropdown menu in the upper right hand corner and then select API settings. Click API Password to reveal your key.

Sync configuration

Once you've set up your Retention Science destination and have a model to pull data from, you can set up your sync configuration to begin syncing data. Go to the Syncs overview page and click the Add sync button to begin. Then, select the relevant model and the Retention Science destination you want to sync to.

Users

Sync data from any source to Users in Retention Science.

Record matching

You can match rows in your model with user in Retention Science on any of the following fields:

• Email
• Record ID: this is also called id or record_id

Field mapping

You can sync columns from your source to the following columns in Retention Science user:

• Full Name: User's full name (first and last)
• Address Line 1
• Address Line 2
• City
• State
• Zip code
• Country
• Phone number
• Year of birth
• Gender
• Registartion Source: The source of the user's registration typically used for user segmentation
• Birthday: User's full birthday in YYYY-MM-DD format
• Send Transactional Welcome: When true, ReSci sends an email to new users when there is an available template in the Welcome stage. When false, ReSci doesn't send welcome emails to new users. No emails are sent to existing users who are updated. The default for this setting is true.
• Merge Before Upsert: By default, a request containing a record_id and email that match two distinct users will result in an API error, with an error message stating that we cannot uniquely identify which user to update. If you set the merge_before_upsert field to true, ReSci merges these two users into one. The default for this setting is false.
• Date unsubscribed: The User's unsubscribe date. Setting this field unsubscribes a user from email. This field accepts YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss (24-hour clock) in UTC. Note that passing a null value doesn't re-subscribe a previously unsubscribed user. If a user is unsubscribed, ReSci ignores null values.
• Account Created On: User's signup date in format YYYY-MM-DD. If this field and existing user Account Created On value differ, ReSci chooses the oldest date between the two.
• Timestamps: The timestamp is the date and time of when the data changed for a specific plugin fields. ReSci uses the newest timestamp when updating the fields. If the timestamp for the plugin data in the database is newer than the data in the call, then the data in the call will be ignored.
• UTM: User's UTM tags
• Accepts Marketing: Indicates whether the user has opted in to accepting marketing emails. For new users, the default is true. Existing users' marketing preferences will not be modified unless you explicitly change this field.
• Accepts Marketing Timestamp: The timestamp of a users subscription status change. If earlier than a user's last subscription update, the requested subscription status update will be ignored. The date_unsubscribed field takes precedence over this date, so if both are present this date will be ignored. If no date is passed in the current time will be used.
• Birthday Month: Birthday month of the user being upserted in numerical format, for example, January = 1. Note that this field is ignored if birthday is present.
• Birthday Day of Month: Day of the month for the users birthday. Note that this field is ignored if the Birthday field is present.
• Interests: An array of interest object representing user's interest opt-in selections.
• Frequency Option ID: An integer representing the ID of a user's frequency choice for subscription preferences.

See Retention Science's docs for more details.

Delete behavior

Delete is only available for upsert mode.

Lists

Add or remove users from a list in Retention Science.

Record matching

You can match rows in your model with list in Retention Science on any of the following fields:

• Email
• Record ID: this is also called id or record_id

Tips and troubleshooting

Common errors

To date, our customers haven't experienced any errors while using this destination. If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're here to help.

Live debugger

Hightouch provides complete visibility into the API calls made during each of your sync runs. We recommend reading our article on debugging tips and tricks to learn more.

Sync alerts

Hightouch can alert you of sync issues via Slack, PagerDuty, SMS, or email. For details, please visit our article on alerting.