Retail & e-commerce messaging on Orbit
Order updates, abandoned carts, renewals, and loyalty outreach are one account problem, not a four-vendor problem. When each flow is a different tool, the consent lists disagree and the reply inbox is scattered — the post-purchase experience breaks at exactly the moments (a late delivery, a warm cart, a renewal about to lapse) when a customer is most likely to churn.
The tenant-owned compliance posture
Compliance posture on Orbit is tenant-owned: your workspace attests the consent basis per flow, sets the quiet hours, keeps the shared suppression list, and holds the sender registrations. The platform enforces those settings at send time — the controls below are decisions your team owns, not platform mandates switched on for every tenant.
- Marketing-consent basis per flow — Transactional order updates and promotional cart-recovery runs carry different consent classes; your workspace stores the subscriber's marketing-consent status ONCE on the customer profile rather than per-vendor ask.
- Quiet hours — Promotional sends (cart recovery, loyalty, reorders) respect the rest-window you configure — local-time and timezone-aware — so a recovery message never fires at 3 a.m.
- Unified opt-out — One suppression list covers every channel; a customer who opts out on SMS stops receiving the recovery sequence on WhatsApp and email too.
- Brand registrations — US 10DLC campaign registration and WhatsApp sender templates are tenant assets you manage in the dashboard, not vendor-specific silos.
These controls are tenant-owned: your workspace decides the consent basis, the hours, and the list hygiene; the platform enforces your settings at send time.
The channel matrix
Every flow above runs on the same account across the five channels — the fallback chain is a setting you configure once, not a per-channel vendor contract.
- SMS — The reliable fallback for order notifications and cart reminders — reachable where richer channels fail.
- WhatsApp — Two-way order Q&A and cart recovery where WhatsApp is the customer's primary inbox.
- RCS — Branded rich delivery for loyalty and renewal nudges, degrading to SMS where the handset has no RCS lane.
- Voice — High-value concierge callbacks and IVR order status checks for baskets that justify the call cost.
- Email — Long-form receipts, return instructions, and the newsletter layer that complements alerts.
The buyer-explainer for Retail & e-commerce
The full narrative — what you are actually buying, in what order to evaluate it, and how the channel fallback chain degrades — is the paired buyer-explainer post: Retail & e-commerce messaging, the buyer's explainer.
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