Overview

This article details the technical processes behind the opt-in and unsubscription management in Splio Platform. As a reminder, a contact is considered optin in Splio when subscribed to a list and is opted-out when included into the blocklist and/or is no longer subscribed to a list.

Sending a message via Splio Marketing Automation

Types of campaigns (current naming)

Other names for this campaign type (also known as…)

Channels available

Uses designs from Splio

Contact needs to be in the Splio database

Contact needs to be in a list

Transactional option possible

Universe suppression list (aka blocklist) applied

Global suppression list (aka Splio blocklist) applied

One-shot

Email, SMS, RCS (soon)

✔️

✔️

✔️

❌

All blocklists

✔️

Recurring campaign

Journey recurring, Recurring campaign, Automations

Email, SMS, RCS (soon), WhatsApp Partners (webhooks)

✔️

✔️

✔️

❌

All blocklists

✔️

Triggered campaign

Journey triggered, Automations

Email, SMS, RCS (soon), WhatsApp Partners (webhooks)

✔️

✔️

Marketing: Yes Transactional: No

✔️ with boolean

Marketing: All blocklists Transactional: Hard bounce and custom suppression list

✔️

Auto legacy and Trigger legacy (deprecated)

Automatic

Trigger/Real time trigger

Email, SMS (only for auto legacy)

✔️ but option to add an external design link in the campaign

✔️

❌ Contact does not need to be in a list (by using the sales filter)

✔️ with sales filters

Marketing: All blocklists Transactional: All blocklists except soft bounce and unsubscribed

✔️

SMTP relay

Forward

Email, SMS

❌

❌

❌ N/A because contact does not need to be in the database

✔️

The blocklist of SMTP Relay

✔️

Use cases for contacts in Mono-list vs Multi-list

Assuming that the contact is in the database

Mono-list

Multi-list

Contact subscribes to a list

Contact is added to the list

Contact is added to the list

Contact unsubscribes from a list

Contact is removed from the list and added to the unsubscribed blocklist

The contact is unsub from 1 list and not added in the blocklist

Contact unsubscribes from all lists

N/A

Contact is unsub from all lists and added to the blocklist

Contact unsubscribes via the mailbox provider button

Contact is unsub from all lists and added to the blocklist

Contact is unsub from all lists and added to the blocklist

Impact on contacts in a list or not in other scopes

Contact is in a list

Contact is not in a list

Contact is in the database

Audience calculation

Target filter/group calculation

Displayed in the audience calculation

Excluded from the audience calculation

Contact needs to be in the database

Blocklisted contacts are not removed from the audience calculation

Target filter/group export

Displayed in the export

Displayed in the export

Contact needs to be in the database

Blocklisted contacts are not removed from the audience calculation

Data > Contact page export

Displayed in the export

Excluded from the export

Contact needs to be in the database

N/A

Statistics calculation (CPD, Campaign statistics)

Metrics can be calculated

Metrics can be calculated for transactional campaigns

Contact needs to be in the database for metrics to be calculated

N/A

Invoicing

Billed

Not billed BUT Messaging credits are used

Not billed BUT Messaging credits are used

N/A