Barton Springs Mill · Fluid IQ Digital

Flows follow-up: nothing moved in a week, and now we know exactly why.

A re-run of the August 12 audit against live data. The three stuck August campaigns resolved themselves — sent on their own. The flows didn't move at all, and this time each one comes with the specific mechanical reason it's underperforming.

Prepared 19 August 2026 Follow-up to the August 12 audit Read-only — no changes made to the account

What changed since August 12

The open question from the first audit — what was holding the three August drafts — answered itself. All three sent. Flows are a different story: same five live, same two abandoned in draft, same numbers to the dollar.

CampaignAug 12 statusCurrent status
August Mill DigestDraftSent Aug 18
August BOGO Class SaleDraftSent Aug 13
August BOGO Class Sale EndingDraftScheduled Aug 20

BSM sent 6 campaigns in August through the 19th, against a normal cadence of 11–20 a month.

1 · The flows, unchanged

Trailing-12-month revenue pulled fresh from Klaviyo matches the August 12 numbers exactly — nobody has touched a flow in a week.

FlowRecipients/yrRevenuePer recipientStatusLast edited
Abandoned Cart Reminder17,754$32,505$1.83liveJun 2023
Browse Abandonment5,526$20,541$3.72liveFeb 2025
Customer Thank You17,180$9,796$0.57liveJun 2022
Welcome Series645$2,082$3.23liveSep 2024
Customer Winback$0liveOct 2023
Customer Thank You — New vs. ReturningdraftJun 2022
Test flow: hits 5 ordersdraftJun 2022

2 · Why each flow is off — the mechanism, not a judgment call

$36k/yr, highest impact

Welcome Series reaches about 1 in 20 new subscribers.

~11,100 people subscribed to email marketing over the trailing 12 months; only 645 ever entered the flow. The account has 204 lists, and this flow's trigger is almost certainly scoped to one of them. A subscriber landing on a different list than the one the flow watches simply never enters it. The flow itself works fine — the trigger's list scope is too narrow. Fix: confirm which list(s) actually receive site sign-ups (test every form, don't trust the settings screen) and widen the trigger.

$0 in 12 months

Customer Winback has been live a full year and converted zero orders.

A flow returning literal $0 while switched on for 12 months means its entry trigger or delay window isn't matching real behavior — most likely a fixed time-since-last-order window that either never fires, or fires on people who already repurchased through another channel first. Fixed-window winback is a known weak pattern for a repeat-purchase consumable business. Fix: trigger off each customer's own historical repurchase interval instead of one flat number for everyone.

Weakest live flow

Customer Thank You: reaches the most people, earns the least per person, untouched since 2022.

Its intended successor — "Customer Thank You – New vs. Returning" — already has the branch logic and delay timing built and live in Klaviyo. The only missing piece is that the final email's content was never written, so the whole flow sat in draft and the older, weaker version kept running in its place. This is a content gap on one email step, not a technical rebuild.

Dead weight

"Test flow when someone hits 5 orders" has no revenue history because it never ran.

A single unfinished automation step created June 2022 and never built out. Not an underperformer — it simply never launched.

Missing entirely

Only 5 flows are live for an account this size, and none of them address replenishment.

Flour is a consumable with a natural repurchase cycle, and there's no automation tied to it at all today. This is a gap to fill, not something broken to fix.

3 · Priority-ordered recommendations

1. Fix the Welcome Series trigger scope P1

Highest dollar impact of anything in this review — closing the gap between 645 recipients and ~11,100 eligible subscribers, at the flow's existing $3.23/recipient, is worth roughly $36,000/year off an email that already exists and needs no new content.

2. Rebuild Customer Winback on a per-customer repurchase interval P1

Currently $0 in 12 months live. Replace the fixed window with logic keyed to each customer's own order history.

3. Finish "Customer Thank You – New vs. Returning" P2

Branch and delay steps are already built — only the final email needs to be written. Archive the unfinished 5-orders test flow in the same pass.

4. Build a replenishment flow P2

No reorder automation exists today. Klaviyo already has the order history to key off of.

5. Segments and testing groundwork P3

Unchanged since August 12 — 7 existing segments are solid and under-used; add lapsed/at-risk and one-time-buyer segments; the ~41,800-profile newsletter segment supports real A/B testing.

4 · Still open