on-boarding-email-drip.md

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Simple On-boarding Email Drip

Let's send the following emails to our new Users:

1. Sign-Up Confirmation - will be sent 1 hour after they register
2. Welcome to the community - will be sent 3 days after they register
3. Upsell to Subscription - will be sent 1 week after they register

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Add the trait to your user model

Add the SnoozeNotifiable trait to your user model

use Thomasjohnkane\Snooze\Traits\SnoozeNotifiable;

class User {
    use SnoozeNotifiable;
}

Generate the Scheduled Notifications:

1. Create the "sign-up confirmation" notification:

   php artisan make:notification SignUpConfirmation --m

2. Create the "welcome to the community" notification:

   php artisan make:notification WelcomeToCommunity --m

3. Create the "upsell subscription" notification:

   php artisan make:notification UpsellSubscription --m

Schedule our notifications after sign-up:

1. Create a User Observer to watch for the sign-ups

   php artisan make:observer UserObserver --model=User

   • Added app/Observers/UserObserver.php
   • You must register this observer. Look here for help registering your UserObserver class

2. Schedule the Notifications once a User is created

   // use Carbon\Carbon;
   
   public function created(User $user)
   {
       $now = Carbon::now();
   
       $user->notifyAt(new SignUpConfirmation($user), $now->addHour());
       $user->notifyAt(new WelcomeToCommunity($user), $now->addDays(3));
       $user->notifyAt(new UpsellSubscription($user), $now->addWeek());
   }
   

Send the notifications

• Our notification will be saved in our scheduled_notifications table.
• The snooze:send command is scheduled by the package to run every minute by default. It will send the notifications for us when they are ready.
• All you need to do is make sure your "schedule:run" command is running as well.
• Read here for more information on how to run your scheduler.