Sending program events to Attentive is included on the Plus plan, or available as an add-on. To learn more, see our pricing page.
Attentive sends messages in a set list of countries, some of them in early access. See Attentive's list of supported countries.
Please note that using one Attentive account with more than one LoyaltyLion program is not supported, and you can only connect one Attentive account per LoyaltyLion program.
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Why LoyaltyLion and Attentive?
Connect your loyalty and engagement platform to grow your list of SMS subscribers. Reward your customers with loyalty points when they sign up to receive SMS marketing campaigns.
How to enable Attentive Events
If you have not installed Attentive yet, follow the Attentive Integration Manual and choose your events during installation. To change the events on an installed integration:
In LoyaltyLion, go to Integrations.
Under Installed integrations, click Attentive.
In Program events, choose Send all current and future events, or Choose events to send and tick the events you want.
Click Save changes.
You will see an Integration updated message when your changes are saved.
How do Attentive Events work?
LoyaltyLion will push customer events from LoyaltyLion to Attentive. You can then use this information to create dynamic segments for use in campaigns, or as triggers to send SMS messages to your customers.
Each event LoyaltyLion sends is listed below as it appears in LoyaltyLion, followed by its name in Attentive. They appear as "A subscriber's activity" when creating segments.
Customer joined the program (LoyaltyLion - Enrolled)
Customer's tier has been upgraded (LoyaltyLion - Tier Upgraded)
Customer's tier has been downgraded (LoyaltyLion - Tier Downgraded)
Customer has new rewards available (LoyaltyLion - Reward Available)
Monthly for customers with available rewards (LoyaltyLion - Reward Reminder)
Customer refers a friend (LoyaltyLion - Referral Complete)
Customer has completed an activity (LoyaltyLion - Rule Completed - followed by the rule title)
Customer approaching new tier (LoyaltyLion - Approaching Tier Upgrade)
Customer moved to Loyal (LoyaltyLion - Moved to Loyal Segment)
Customer moved to At Risk (LoyaltyLion - Moved to At Risk Segment)
Customer moved to Win Back (LoyaltyLion - Moved to Win Back Segment)
Customer claimed reward (LoyaltyLion - Claimed Reward)
Customer's points expiring soon (LoyaltyLion - Points expiring soon)
Customer's reward expiring soon (LoyaltyLion - Reward expiring soon)
Customer's receipt was approved (LoyaltyLion - Receipt Approved)
Customer's receipt was declined (LoyaltyLion - Receipt Declined)
Events that LoyaltyLion sends to Attentive
Customer reward available
Inform customers when they have met the minimum threshold to redeem a reward (for example, the customer reached 500 points, which is the cost of your lowest-cost reward). We send the event 5 minutes after the customer becomes able to afford the reward. The available_rewards property contains rewards that are one of the types listed below, in stock, enabled, and affordable by the customer.
Note: only these reward types trigger the Reward Available event and appear in its available_rewards list:
Cart discount vouchers, including Redeem at checkout, except when Redeem at checkout uses the free-form option
Collection discount vouchers
Free shipping vouchers
Gift cards
Custom rewards
Other reward types, such as Free Product Voucher, Seamless Free Product and subscription rewards, do not trigger the event. If your program only offers those rewards, these messages will not be sent.
Recurring reward available reminder
This event re-occurs on a rolling interval, starting one month after you first enable the event in the admin. It is sent to customers in your program who have not received a Reward Available event or a reminder in the past month. The available_rewards array contains rewards that are actionable, in stock, enabled, and affordable by the customer.
The points_approved_in_interval property contains the number of points the customer has earned within that month and the points_interval_start_date property describes when that month started.
Customer referral complete
You can send emails to customers who have referred their friends to let them know that their referrals have been completed. The event is sent when the referred friend's first order qualifies for your referral rule. If their first order does not qualify, a later order does not trigger it.
You can inform the referring customer that they should be receiving points for their successful referral and congratulate them.
Customer tier upgraded/downgraded
LoyaltyLion sends events to Attentive to let your customers know their tier status and/or if it has changed:
When a customer moves up a tier
When a customer moves down a tier
Note: the older LoyaltyLion - Tier Changed event is no longer sent. Use LoyaltyLion - Tier Upgraded and LoyaltyLion - Tier Downgraded.
Approaching Tier Upgrade
This will trigger when a customer comes within a % of going up a tier, encouraging them to come back and make an additional purchase to make it over the threshold.
The % required to send the metric trigger can be found in your tier setup, and you have the chance to change this. In LoyaltyLion, go to Program, then Tiers, click Edit on the Events card, and change Percentage until next tier. You can set it anywhere from 1% to 50%:
The default for all programs is 10%, but you can change it to whatever you want, but ideally not too far, so 25% would be a good upper limit. Using this, if your boundary was $100 spent, once a customer has spent at least $75, this email flow would trigger. This is also the case with points based tiers.
In the content, you can also reference how much a customer needs to spend, or how many points the customer needs to earn, to get into the next tier.
You can do this by adding the variable 'Points/Spend required to Upgrade'. The wording will depend on if you have points or spend-based tiers in your LoyaltyLion program. For spend-based tiers, we send the amount to Attentive as a currency value, so you do not need to convert it.
Insights segment changed
Every time a customer moves into a new insights segment, the event will be sent to Attentive. This will include information about what segment they were in and which segment they're now in:
When a customer moves to the At-Risk Segment
When a customer moves to the Loyal Segment
When a customer moves to the Win Back segment
Activity rule completed
LoyaltyLion sends information to Attentive whenever a customer completes one of your activity rules.
With these triggers, you can let customers know when a rule has been completed and how many points they received. This applies to any rule, including custom rules. They are particularly helpful for rules that need to be fulfilled manually.
Customer's points expiring soon
LoyaltyLion sends events to Attentive when your customer is approaching their points expiration date.
Letting customers know their points are about to expire is an effective way to boost engagement with your program and encourage members to return and redeem sooner.
In order to use this event, you will need to ensure you have:
Enabled points expiration in your settings
Set the points expiring notice period (Points expiring notice period under Settings, then Points expiration): the number of days in advance you'd like to send your notice to customers about their points expiring.
Customer's reward expiring soon
LoyaltyLion sends events to Attentive when a customer's reward is close to expiration.
In order to use this event, you will need to ensure you have:
Reward expiration set on each reward you want to expire.
The reward expiration notice period set in Settings, then Rewards, under Reward expiration notification. This is one setting for your whole program: the number of days before any reward expires that the event is sent, from 1 to 60.
Reward claimed
LoyaltyLion sends an event when a customer claims a reward that gives them a voucher or a gift card. Voucher rewards include the voucher code and discount amount.
Customer enrolled
LoyaltyLion sends an event when a customer joins your loyalty program.
Receipt approved or declined
If you use receipt upload, LoyaltyLion sends an event when a customer's uploaded receipt is approved or declined. Declined events include a link the customer can use to upload a new receipt.
Why don't I see my LoyaltyLion events appearing in Attentive?
The events appear in real-time as customers complete LoyaltyLion activities, meaning that they will only be available once the event has been completed.
For example, before the refer-a-friend event appears in Attentive, a successful referral needs to be completed. If you have 0 referrals completed on your store, you won't see the referral completed event in Attentive.



