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The Tiered Abandoned Cart Playbook: Recover Sales Without Destroying Your Margins

Is your abandoned cart strategy giving away profit? Offering a discount in the very first email trains customers to expect it, cannibalizing sales you would have made anyway. This one-size-fits-all approach treats loyal customers and new bargain-hunters the same, unnecessarily eroding your margins and leaving revenue on the table.

This playbook guides you through implementing 'The Open-Source Powerhouse' stack, combining the world's most popular e-commerce platform, WooCommerce, with the powerful and affordable marketing automation of Brevo. You'll learn how to build a sophisticated, multi-step abandoned cart sequence that starts with simple reminders and only introduces discounts strategically for specific customer segments. This tiered approach maximizes recovered revenue without the high recurring fees of platforms like Klaviyo, protecting your profit margins.

Expected Outcomes

  • Increase cart recovery rates with a smarter, multi-touch email sequence.
  • Protect your profit margins by strategically deploying discounts instead of leading with them.
  • Implement sophisticated customer segmentation to tailor your messaging effectively.
  • Drastically reduce your monthly marketing software bill by leveraging a powerful, low-cost stack.

Core Tools in This Stack

WooCommerce

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A flexible, open-source e-commerce platform built on WordPress. It allows users to create a highly customized online store to sell anything, anywhere.

Key Features
  • Open-source and fully customizable
  • Seamlessly integrates with WordPress
  • Extensive marketplace for themes and extensions
  • Sell physical, digital, and subscription-based products
  • Built-in payment processing (WooPayments) and support for major gateways
  • Configurable shipping options and tax calculations
  • Built-in blogging and content marketing capabilities
  • REST API for developers
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Health & Wellness, Other

Pricing

Model: Free, Paid

Tier: Low

Ease of Use

Medium

Brevo

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Brevo is an all-in-one marketing platform that empowers businesses to build customer relationships through email campaigns, transactional emails, SMS messages, chat, CRM, marketing automation, and more.

Key Features
  • Email & SMS Marketing Campaigns
  • Marketing Automation Workflows
  • Transactional Email & SMS
  • Integrated Sales CRM
  • Live Chat & Chatbots
  • Landing Page Builder
  • A/B Testing
  • WhatsApp Campaigns
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Health & Wellness, Other

Pricing

Model: Freemium, Subscription

Tier: Low-Mid

Ease of Use

Medium

The Workflow

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Integration Logic

  • Brevo for WooCommerce Plugin

    The Brevo for WooCommerce plugin is installed directly into a WordPress site running WooCommerce. Upon activation, it requires a Brevo API v3 key to establish a secure connection. The plugin then initiates a bidirectional data flow. It pushes WooCommerce customer data (name, email, address) and order history to a designated list in Brevo, automatically creating or updating contacts. It also tracks real-time user behavior on the WooCommerce store, such as 'cart_updated' and 'cart_deleted' events, which can be used to trigger automation workflows in Brevo, most notably for abandoned cart recovery. Additionally, the plugin can be configured to route all of WooCommerce's default transactional emails (e.g., order confirmation, shipping updates) through Brevo's SMTP service for enhanced deliverability and tracking.

Get Your Margin-Saving Cart Playbook

Learn how to recover more sales with a tiered strategy that stops eroding your profit margins.