Move subscribers back to a Visual Automation you'd pulled them out of

While your subscribers are going through one Visual Automation, you can temporarily pause this Visual Automation to put them through a secondary Visual Automation that does something else.

Then, when they've completed that secondary Visual Automation, you slide them back into their place in the initial Visual Automation where they'd left off!

A common situation for this is when you're sending your subscribers a Sequence containing your evergreen newsletter. One of your evergreen newsletter emails contains a link to your course that, when clicked, causes your subscribers to receive emails pitching that course to them.

And after they've received all emails in that course pitch Sequence, you want them to resume receiving the rest of your evergreen newsletter emails.

You can set this up with the Move subscriber Visual Automation Action, which adds and removes subscribers from Visual Automations.

Here's how to set up Visual Automations for implementing the above situation.

The default Sequence is the Sequence your subscribers should receive (regardless of how they interact with the emails in the Sequence, if at all). It could be your evergreen newsletter, for example.

On the other hand, your secondary Sequence is the Sequence your subscribers receive if they click a link in your default Sequence.

Learn more about creating a Sequence here.

Feel free to skip this step if you already have Sequences you intend to use as your default and secondary Sequences.

A Link Trigger is a link that automatically takes an action in your Kit account when a subscriber clicks it. These actions include adding the subscriber to a Tag—which is what we need here.

So, in the appropriate email in your default Sequence, set up a Link Trigger for a link that adds a subscriber to a certain Tag. You'll use this Tag to trigger the Visual Automation that sends the subscriber the secondary Sequence.

Ensure your default Sequence is set up to not be repeatable. This is so that subscribers receive only the emails they haven't received yet when they are re-added to the Sequence.

Otherwise, subscribers will restart the Sequence from the beginning when they are re-added to it—and receive emails they've already received.

To set your Sequence to not be repeatable, navigate to the Settings tab in the Sequence editor.

Select the No, only allow subscribers to receive emails once option. Then, click Update Sequence at the bottom to save your changes.

Set up the main Visual Automation that sends your subscribers the default Sequence.

For example, if your main Visual Automation is for sending your evergreen newsletter, you could set it up like this:

Next, set up the second Visual Automation that:

The second Visual Automation's steps should look like this:

Activate both Visual Automations, and you're done!

Now, your subscribers will seamlessly move from the main Visual Automation to the secondary one midway when they click a Link Trigger in your main Visual Automation's Sequence.

And after they've finished going through your secondary Visual Automation, they'll rejoin your main Visual Automation where they'd left off. ⚡

These steps are helpful if you want to move subscribers between multiple Visual Automations. But if you want to repeatedly send subscribers through a single Visual Automation instead, check out this article 👇

How to continuously loop subscribers through a Visual Automation