Get Notified When One of Your Email Automations Fails

Taylor Vander Well
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edited November 2024 in Ideas and Product Feedback #1

Unless I am mistaken, there doesn't seem to be a way to set up an alert or notification for when an email automation fails. We rely on this email automation sequence to onboard our new clients and it would be helpful if we were notified if any of these emails fails to send!

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  • Sophie
    Sophie Pipedrive Team Posts: 219 PIPEDRIVE TEAM
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    #2

    Hi @Taylor Vander Well,

    Thanks so much for submitting this feedback. At this time, it is not possible to turn on an alert when an automation fails but our team is already considering this improvement and I have made sure this feedback was also submitted internally! 😁

  • devGuru411
    devGuru411 Member Posts: 6 VERIFIED MEMBER
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    #3

    Same here … the automations are a "decent start" but they leave a lot to be desired …

    We recently had a problem because Pipedrive changed how the Slack integration works.Instead of being notified about this, we only found it because I was doing some updates and saw that one of our users' automations were failing. When I reached out to support, they didn't even have an easy way to troubleshoot, let alone "restart" the automation where it had failed. This is BASIC DEVELOPMENT 101!!

    I was told "The automation is triggered by an update on Deals. You need to go to those Deals and perform that update" … so essentially i have to "fake it out" to start it over - again stupid - have you guys never written software?

    Proper software design should:

    a) alert people when these automations fail, b) give an easy way to troubleshoot and see what the errors were) and c) easily restart/continue the automations (i don't want the emails to re-trigger in this example)

    MOST IMPORTANT - an admin should be able to administer/fix these automations for all users. It is simply bad design to "assume" that all sales users have the knowledge (or care) to manage their own automations. The best case scenario would be to have a set of "team" or "shared" automations and "individual" automations - that would give the best of both worlds; but it is probably unnecessary as most sales teams will have one person design the automations rather than expecting each rep to manage their own.

  • WesG79
    WesG79 Member Posts: 4 VERIFIED MEMBER
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    #4

    +1 to this request, any update on the release of this improvement? Would be enough to even have this as a zapier trigger so we can notify in slack or otherwise. Thanks!

  • WesG79
    WesG79 Member Posts: 4 VERIFIED MEMBER
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    #5

    +1 to this feature. Any update on release time?

    Ideally there could just be an auto re-run on anything that fails due to rate limiting (which is the most common error that we see) or alternatively even a Zapier trigger that alerts any automation failure.

    Thanks!

  • czeck
    czeck Member Posts: 5 VERIFIED MEMBER
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    #6

    Please do add this to automations, it is so necessary. Zapier alerts me every time there is an issue with my automation. Also, having the ability to resume the automation or re-run it would be incredibly helpful. I have several automations that rely on timing and unfortunately in my business there are often delays, the automation times out and fails, then once my task is checked done, I have no way to launch the next series of tasks. I feel like these things should be standard features of automations. If anyone has a work around for these issues let me know!

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