Win-BackTimed to each customer's own rhythm, not to a calendar you set once for everybody.
Win-back campaigns reach customers who used to buy regularly and have gone quiet. 3xRetention triggers them against each customer's own average gap between orders rather than a fixed number of days — so a wholesale buyer on a 45-day cycle and a skincare customer on a 90-day cycle are each contacted when they are genuinely late. The sequence leads with relevance and only offers a discount if you allow one.
A regular customer rarely announces that they have stopped. The orders just stop coming, and nothing on any report tells you.
By the time someone notices, they are buying from someone else. To win them back through ads, you pay for a customer you already had.
By the time a 90-day rule fires on a customer who used to order every three weeks, they have been buying from someone else for two months.
Calculate your retention rateA customer who ordered every 21 days gets contacted at day 32. One who ordered every 120 days is left alone until day 180.
Their own gapThe first message references what they used to buy. A discount belongs in the final step if anywhere — never in the first.
The first message is about their usual product — a restock, or a new variant of it. No discount.
After the final attempt they move to dormant and are contacted far less often.
Nilgiri Leaf Tea Co.3xRetention agent · onlineWhatsAppDay 32 · usual gap 21 days
Hi Arjun — it has been about a month since your last 500 g of Nilgiri Frost. The new batch is in. Want me to set aside your usual?
14 days later · no reply
The first-flush Darjeeling you asked about in March is back too. Happy to send it with your usual 500 g in one order.
Send the usual 500 g. Skip the Darjeeling for now
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Win-back
Stops on order or replyTrigger
Regular went quiet
No order for 1.5× their own average gap
At 1.5× their gap
Reconnect
Reconnect with relevance. Reference what they used to buy. No discount. Often a restock or a new variant of their usual product.
Buys or replies → stop
+14 days
A reason to return
A reason to return — something new, a seasonal fit, or a genuine improvement since they last bought.
Buys or replies → stop
+30 days
Final attempt
Final attempt. This is where a discount belongs if anywhere. After this they move to dormant and rest.
Always ends here
The timing is the whole difference. The rest is not wasting margin on customers who were coming back anyway.
Almost every tool triggers win-back at 60 or 90 days. That number is arbitrary, and it is wrong for most of your customers in both directions — too early for some, far too late for others. By the time a 90-day rule fires on a customer who used to order every three weeks, they have been buying from someone else for two months.
The agent learns each customer's own gap and triggers at 1.5× that gap. A customer who ordered every 21 days gets contacted at day 32. One who ordered every 120 days is left alone until day 180.
The first message references their usual product — a restock, a new variant, the thing they asked about last time. It reads like someone who remembers them, because the agent has their whole order history.
A discount in the first message costs you margin on customers who were going to return anyway, and teaches everyone else to wait for one. If you use a discount at all, it belongs in the final message.
After the final attempt, a customer moves to dormant and is contacted far less often. The flow never turns into a monthly nag.
By comparing time since their last order against their own historical average gap, not against a fixed threshold. At 1.5× their own gap they become at-risk and the win-back flow starts. At 3× their gap, or 180 days of no activity, they move to dormant and are contacted far less often.
A single order gives no rhythm to measure against, so the agent uses the typical repeat window for your business type and product category instead. As soon as a second order exists, it switches to that customer's own pattern.
Not in the first message. A customer who was going to return anyway costs you margin for nothing, and a discount in the first message teaches everyone else to wait. Hold it for the final step, if you use one at all.
It depends heavily on why they left and how long ago. We will not publish a recovery rate we cannot evidence from our own customer data — once we have enough, we will publish it here with the sample size shown.
Send us your product list and we will set the agent up on it before the call. You will watch it answer questions about your own products, not a generic demo account.Thirty minutes. No obligation.
Pick a time that works. Share a catalogue, price list or website link when you book and we load it into the agent before we speak.
You send a catalogue, price list or website link. We set the agent up on it.
You ask it the questions your customers actually ask. We show you the segments and follow-ups it would run.
A written summary of what it would do for you, and what it would cost.
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