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Automated Subbly Churn-Risk Winback Email Drafts

Every Monday, WebRun opens Subbly, identifies subscribers who paused, skipped a box, or downgraded their plan in the last seven days, then drafts a personalised winback email for each in Mailchimp so your team can review and approve before anything is sent.

Runs on WebRun · Strict Lockdown policy
Every Monday at 9:00 AM WebRunorchestrates each step
1 Subbly find paused and at-risk subscribers
2 Mailchimp draft personalised winback emails
In short

How do I automatically draft winback emails for subscription box subscribers at risk of cancelling?

Every Monday, WebRun opens Subbly to find subscribers who paused, skipped, or downgraded in the past seven days, then creates a personalised winback draft in Mailchimp for each one. No email is sent automatically. Your team reviews and approves every draft before any subscriber is contacted, keeping your brand voice consistent.

  • At-risk subscribers are identified within days of their pause or downgrade
  • Every winback draft is personalised with the subscriber's plan details and tenure
  • No subscriber is emailed without your team's explicit approval

Built for subscription box owners · subscription retention teams · e-commerce CRM managers

Step by step

What does WebRun do on every run?

The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.

  1. WebRun signs in and gets to work

    Opens subbly.co/manage in a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys.

  2. 1
    Subbly - find paused and at-risk subscribers
    subbly.co
    WebRun in Subbly: find paused and at-risk subscribers
    WebRun opens Subbly to find paused and at-risk subscribers.
    • Open Subbly and navigate to Subscribers
    • Filter to accounts that paused, skipped, or downgraded in the last seven days
    • Collect the subscriber name, email, subscription plan, and the specific action they took
    • Note how long each subscriber has been active and how many boxes they have received

    Done when All at-risk subscribers from the past week are listed with their details and churn signals.

  3. 2
    Mailchimp - draft personalised winback emails
    mailchimp.com
    WebRun in Mailchimp: draft personalised winback emails
    WebRun opens Mailchimp to draft personalised winback emails.
    • Open Mailchimp and create a draft campaign or individual email for each at-risk subscriber
    • Personalise the subject line and body with the subscriber's name, plan, and tenure
    • Suggest a relevant incentive or message based on why they paused or downgraded
    • Save each as a draft and do not schedule or send. Leave every draft for your team to review

    Done when A personalised draft winback email is saved in Mailchimp for every at-risk subscriber identified.

Run settings

How is each run configured?

Starting pageWhere Chrome opens at the start of each run
subbly.co/manage
ScheduleRuns automatically on this cadence
Every Monday at 9:00 AM
DeliveryHow each run's result reaches you
Winback drafts · Mailchimp
OutputWhat each run produces - Mailchimp draft emails personalised to each at-risk subscriber with their plan details and a suggested winback message, ready for human review.
Email drafts
Setup & safety

Secure by default

Connect once, stays signed in

WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.

Your credentials stay in your own private environment - WebRun never stores your passwords.
Strict Lockdown

Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.

Domains ALLOWLIST
Typed input ALLOW
Shell command BLOCK
File uploads BLOCK
Runs in a contained environment More on policies
Good to know

Questions, answered

Will it send winback emails to subscribers without my approval?

No. Every email is saved as a Mailchimp draft and never scheduled or sent. Your team reviews and approves each one before any subscriber is contacted.

How does it decide who is at risk of churning?

It looks for specific Subbly actions: a pause, a skipped box, or a plan downgrade in the past seven days. You can adjust the signals during setup.

What if a subscriber has already re-activated before Monday?

The run checks live Subbly status, so anyone who already re-activated is excluded from the draft list automatically.

Put this on autopilot.

Turn it on in minutes - or have our team set it up for you.