# Automations

> Build welcome series, onboarding, birthday emails, bounce alerts and inbound routing on a visual canvas. Contact, email and event triggers. Three credits per run, no subscription.

Automations that run themselves. Build welcome series, birthday emails, bounce alerts and inbound routing on a visual canvas. Three credits per run, no subscription.

Status: Beta.


## At a glance

- **3** trigger contexts: contacts, emails and events
- **10+** actions, conditions and waits
- **6** ready-made templates to start from
- **3 credits** per run, on every plan

## Draw the flow, Emailit runs it

Start from a trigger, then add emails, waits, if/else branches and contact updates. Validation flags missing steps before you start.

- Send email with reply-to
- Wait for minutes, hours or days
- Branch on contact fields and event data

## Start from proven recipes

Welcome email, birthday email, three-day onboarding, prevent suppression, forward received email and notify me of bounces.

- One click to create from a template
- Edit every step afterwards
- Mix with your own templates

## See every run and every step

Run history, per-step statistics and a funnel show where contacts move, wait or drop off, so you can improve each step.

- Running, completed and failed runs
- Per-step sent, loaded and clicked
- Pause, resume and stop safely

## Features

- **Contact triggers**: Added to or removed from an audience, or contact updated.
- **Date triggers**: Birthdays, renewals and anniversaries from date fields.
- **Email triggers**: Any of 12 email events, including received.
- **Schedules and manual runs**: Run on a schedule or trigger via API.
- **Re-entry rules**: Control concurrency, cooldowns and repeat entries.
- **Trigger filters**: Only start for events that match your conditions.
- **Website triggers** (coming soon): Start flows from activity on your website.
- **Conversion tracking** (coming soon): Attribute revenue to the flows that earned it.
- **Webhook and split steps** (coming soon): Call your API, A/B split paths and chain automations.

## FAQ

### How are automations billed?

Each automation run costs three credits, plus the usual credit cost for emails it sends. There is no subscription or contact-based pricing.

### Are automations production ready?

Automations are in public beta. They are used in production by many customers, and we ship improvements based on feedback every week.

## Links

- Documentation: https://emailit.com/docs/automations/
- Pricing: https://emailit.com/pricing/
- Sign up: https://dash.emailit.com/register

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Source: https://emailit.com/products/automations/