Hi Everyone I want to use shopify flow app to send automated emails to a segment of customers starting from a specific time. The segment has more than 1000 customer therefore get customer data does not work. Any idea how it can be done?

You can send emails to 1000+ customers in batches of 100 customers each. Here’s a schematic outline of how this would work: The workflow is triggered according to a schedule. The first batch of customers is selected using the filter “tag:required_segment and tag_not:sending_email_processed”. …

Be more creative with your segments – create another segment with the same conditions and add, say, "and shopify_email.delivered MATCHES (date <= -7d) " – this will target those same customers who also has not received emails in the last 7 days. Then trigger on “Customer joined segment” for this ne…

@tim_1 , how you suggest removing the tags a week later? Also in batches of 100 customers every 10 minutes? In that case, you’ll have two workflows competing with each other — one adding the tag and the other removing it. You can’t schedule the tag removal in the main workflow because the customer …

Yes, you’re right! Wait action requires Data Refresh, as they call it: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-flow/reference/actions/wait#c (though the reason given is kinda stupid IMO). Frankly, did not know about this. Still possible I believe, using a temp tag: [Screenshot 2025-05-11 at 8…

There is another way to run a workflow on a schedule for an unlimited number of customers. In the Flow Companion app, there is an action called “Start custom workflow for list of customers”. This action has no limit on the number of selected customers. It takes a list of customers and starts a work…

Send Automated email to an email segment in specific time by Shopify Flow app

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SebastienL May 10, 2025, 5:05pm 2

Hi. You can divide your 1000+ customer segment into smaller groups of 100 customers each, then create separate Flow workflows for each sub-segment to send your automated emails at your desired time.

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Send Automated email to an email segment in specific time by Shopify Flow app

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