Experience Builder Templates

Learn more about the ZMP Experience Builder.

Among the few spheres where design can make or break your relationship with customers, marketing takes the first spot. Experiences in the form of emails or campaigns that look plain and are not designed beautifully enough, end up straight in the customer’s bin, ouch! Needless to say, well-designed campaigns can elevate customer interest in more ways than one. However, creating compelling content is difficult, especially when you’re short on time and resources, and you’ve got a monster of a project on your hands. While the process of creating a campaign can take up several hours with edits and testing, the use of templates can shorten it down to half an hour. Predesigned templates further allow brands to maintain consistency across the design.

Enabling marketing automation, the ZMP Experience Builder unlocks significant capabilities for building campaigns. However, it can sometimes be overwhelming for a marketer to start from scratch on a white canvas. To help lower the barrier to entry, ZMP now has Experience Builder Templates, which are prebuilt workflows based on common scenarios that you can customize in the ZMP. By leveraging the ZMP’s omnichannel capabilities, these templates can help you get a headstart on automated campaigns by providing ideas and optimizing setup time.

You will be able to preview and learn more about the experience before selecting it as a base.
Once you decide to build an experience from a template, a full canvas will open where you can see which nodes need to be customized to your account’s specifications.
You can continue to build as usual - editing or deleting nodes that don’t make sense for you. When ready, you can activate it.

Viewing Available Templates

1. From the menu on the left, navigate to Experiences > Builder to open the main Experience Builder library.

The panel above your list of experiences shows the templates available in your account.

While templates can help you save time and increase efficiency, you can still always choose to create an experience from scratch by clicking on New Template.

2. Each card displays the template name, lifecycle stage, channels, and a short description. Click on the card to flip it over for more information.

Each icon represents a distinct lifecycle stage.

Icon	Lifecycle Stage
	Acquisition: Attracting prospects to become users
	Growth: Maturing a user from first action to sticky activity
	Retention: Deepening loyalty among current users
	Winback: Convincing churned users to return

Discovering Templates

From the Template Library, you can sort, search, and filter templates to find the templates that fit your use case. There is no limit to the number of templates that can be created and shared with your account.

You can combine sorting, filtering, and searching to find the right template for your next experience.

Sorting Templates

1. By default, templates are sorted by Last modified, which corresponds to the last time a template was modified by someone with editing permissions so you can see the latest updates first.

2. To sort, click on the filter icon to open the panel and use the dropdown list under Sort by. You do not need to click on Apply Filters for the sorting to take effect.

3. There are six options you can select to sort your templates. Keep in mind that a template that’s shared across accounts will update based on a created/modified action by any user with permission to edit that template. If you mostly use your own account’s templates, then the changes should correspond to only your account.

Last modified (default)	Sorts by the most recently modified template
First modified	Sorts by the least recently modified template
Last created	Sorts by the most recently created template
First created	Sorts by the least recently created template
Alphabetical A-Z	Alphabetized by template name
Alphabetical Z-A	Reverse-alphabetized by template name

Filtering Templates

1. Click on the filter icon to open the panel, which will show you four sections of filters.

2. Each section can be expanded to select filters. The template details are selected by the user who created it. For more information, visit the creator documentation.

Created by
Who originally created the template
Create by Zeta	Created by the Zeta team and shared across accounts
Create by me	Created by the user who is logged in
Create by my team	Created by other team members in my account
Lifecycle Stage
The target audience for the experience captured in template
Acquisition	Attracting prospects to become users
Growth	Maturing a user from first action to sticky activity
Retention	Deepening loyalty among current users
Winback	Convincing churned users to return
Channels
The channels that are recommended to be used in this template
Email
SMS
Push
Display
Social
In-App
Web
Other
Tags
Flexible keywords that can map to anything, such as industry, theme, use case, etc.

3. Once you select all the checkboxes that match your criteria, click on Apply Filters to execute the query and return the templates that are relevant to you.

4. To clear your filters, you can uncheck individual boxes, click on Clear to reset all checkboxes in a single section or click on Reset All to clear all sections. You must select Apply Filters in order to save your criteria and change the results returned

Searching for Templates

1. Click on the search icon to open the search field and enter your keywords. This search engine will return template names that match your query.

2. Hit the Enter key to execute your query.

3. The template names that match your keywords will be returned. There will be a count of results in the search bar.

To further refine your search criteria, add filters or sorting from the Filter panel. It can be done before or after you execute your search.

Creating an Experience from a Template

1. Flip the template card you want to use, and click on More Details.

The template preview shows the completed version of the canvas (this is what you want your experience to end up like), the description, tags, channels, lifecycle stage, and template instructions.

The template instructions should give you an overview of the features required to make the most of this template (eg, Data Cloud, SMS, display, etc). You do not necessarily need these features to still use the template.

2. If you like what you see, click on Use Template to open up a new canvas. The canvas will have a series of nodes that require customization in order for you to complete the experience and activate it.

3. If you need to return to the template instructions, you can expand the Template Details section of the Build panel at any time.

Building an Experience from a Template

You can leverage templates even if some of the intended actions aren’t relevant to you. We want to make sure you can cut down on time spent building experiences. Deleting unnecessary nodes can often be much faster than building from scratch.

1. From the Build panel, give your experience a name of your choice so you can easily find it later. The description is optional but it can help give context to your team members.

Click on Save to update the Experience details.
The experience auto-saves after every node is updated

2. Since every ZMP account is different, data can’t necessarily be transformed to the relevant format recommended in each node. This means that the template will require customizing nodes to fit your account’s data.

For example, a trigger event called updated_cart in one account may be called added_to_cart in another account, or signup_started in a non-retail industry. These need to be added to an Account Events node manually.

3. The Required Actions Remaining section of the Build panel keeps a running list of all nodes that require customization. These nodes are also marked specifically on the canvas with yellow warning icons and a CTA. Nodes that require customization are clearly marked and the counter has 20 required actions:

4. Clicking on any of these nodes in the Build panel (or selecting edit on the canvas) will open up the action panel, which has recommendations and, in some cases, preconfigured logic so that you only need to fill in a few data points that are unique to your account.

5. Once saved, the node reverts to a standard event icon and reopens the Build panel for the next item. The Required Actions Remaining counter has decreased to 17 to signify that you’re one step closer to finishing your experience.

You should review every required action node to read the recommendation and determine the data needed to fit your account.

Some common scenarios include:

Type of Node	Required Action(s)
Events
Account Events	User needs to add account event
Campaign Events	User needs to add campaign event and campaign
Segment Entry/Exit	User needs to add segment event and segment
Delays
Delay for a set amount of time	User needs to add amount of time and time unit
Delay based on a previous experience	User needs to add day and time delay and event
Delay until a specific time	User needs to add day and time
Actions
Add/Update data on profile	User needs to add property name, type, and value source
Sync to List	User needs to add sync action and select list
Sync to Programmatic	Need to add sync action and segment
Sync to Facebook	Need to add sync action and Facebook segment
Sync to Google Ads	Need to add sync action and Google Ads segment
Sync to Yahoo DSP	Need to add sync action, audience type, and Yahoo DSP segment
Campaigns
Create Campaign	User needs to create a campaign
Splits
Split Randomly	User needs to add percentage splits
Split By Segment	User needs to add segment
Split By Property	User needs to add property
Split By Identity	Split By Identity CANNOT require configuration

How Much Can I Deviate from the Template?

We designed Experience Builder Templates to help you save time and be more efficient, but they are first and foremost a tool for your workflow. You know your business and customers best, so you have complete control over how you want to modify your workflow.

Once an experience is created from a template, it is effectively disconnected from that template, save for the Template Details section that is generated at the time the experience is created. Other than the required actions, it should behave as any other experience. This means you can add, edit, and delete nodes as you wish.

Adding more nodes

There is no limit to the number of nodes you want to add to an experience created from a template. Once you select the template, it is a regular experience and has all the regular functionality.

Editing pre-configured nodes

In some cases, a node may make sense without specific recommendations. If this is the case, the node will look like a regular node and won’t have any “required action” cues, despite being part of the template:

If the template intends to do a 10% holdout, a Split Randomly node can be automatically configured to split 10/90 into two branches.
If the template intends to do a 3-hour delay, a Delay for a set amount of time node can be automatically configured to delay 3 hours.

In either of these cases, you can select Edit in the node menu to open it in the panel and change the inputs.

Deleting pre-configured or required action nodes

If you find that some nodes in a template aren’t relevant to you (eg, the feature isn’t enabled or it’s not a channel you typically use), feel free to delete the node.

Be careful when deleting entire branches of a split (eg, Unknown in Split By Identity). Instead, simply delete the individual nodes below that branch so your other branches stay in tact.

Activating an Experience

The process for activating an experience is the same across all automation, whether created from a template or not.

1. When all your nodes are filled and the Required Actions Remaining counter reaches 0, your experience will be eligible to activate.

2. Before you click on Activate, review your experience as you normally would by checking your nodes, experience name, and description (if any). These nodes will begin listening for criteria immediately after you turn it on, so it’s important that everything is correct.

3. You’ll need to confirm your selection one last time.

4. Once you confirm, your experience will be in flight and you can monitor stats as people enter and pass through the nodes.