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Journey Scoring System

Overview

The Journey Scoring System helps merchants understand:

  • Which marketing automations are currently configured

  • How effectively journeys are set up

  • Which advanced capabilities are being utilized

  • What additional journeys or features can improve automation maturity

The system converts journey adoption and feature usage into a normalized store score out of 100.

This score acts as an operational maturity indicator for a merchant’s automation ecosystem.


Why Journey Scoring Exists


BIK supports 300+ journey types with advanced capabilities — AI-powered templates, AI Assistant blocks, smart retry logic, multi-channel orchestration, anonymous user recovery, and discount-based conversion optimization.
But in practice, most stores only scratch the surface.

Three patterns kept showing up:
1. The basics-only trap Most merchants set up a handful of standard journeys — abandoned cart, welcome series — and stop there. The advanced capabilities that drive meaningfully higher recovery and conversion rates (AI blocks, multi-channel fallbacks, smart retries) stay untouched. Not because they wouldn't help, but because there's no clear signal telling merchants they're leaving money on the table.


2. No way to know what "good" looks like Without a benchmark, merchants have no frame of reference for whether their automation setup is mature or minimal. A store running 3 basic journeys and a store running 15 optimised journeys with AI and fallbacks both just see "journeys are live." There's no feedback loop that says "here's what you're missing and here's what it could be worth."


3. Feature discovery is passive Advanced journey capabilities exist in the platform, but surfacing them depends on merchants exploring on their own or happening to read the right documentation. There's no structured, prioritised path that says "based on your current setup, this is the highest-impact thing to enable next."
Journey Scoring closes these gaps by giving every store a clear, quantified view of how well their automation setup uses the platform's full potential — and what to do next to improve it.


Core Value Proposition

The Journey Scoring System enables merchants to:

  • Understand which automations are currently active

  • Measure automation maturity using a standardized score

  • Discover missing journeys and missing features

  • Receive actionable recommendations

  • Incrementally improve automation setup over time

The scoring framework creates a unified automation health layer across all stores.


Key Concepts

Entity

Definition

Example

Merchant

A BIK store/account

BrandX

Journey

A marketing automation workflow

Abandoned Cart Recovery

Trigger

Event that initiates a journey

cart_abandoned

Block

Operational step inside a journey

Send WhatsApp

Feature

Enhancement capability

AI Template

Configuration

Journey-level operational setup

Retry Count = 3


What Influences Store Score

The score is influenced by:

1. Journey Presence

Whether a merchant has configured important automation journeys.

Examples:

  • Abandon Cart

  • Welcome Journey

  • Price Drop

  • Back in Stock

  • Upsell

  • Cross-sell

2. Feature Adoption

Whether advanced monetization features are enabled.

Examples:

  • AI Template

  • AI Agent

  • Retry Logic

  • Multi-channel delivery

  • Anonymous User Recovery

  • Discount Blocks


Scoring Philosophy

The scoring system is intentionally non-linear.

Not all journeys contribute equally to revenue.

For example:

  • Abandon Cart recovery typically has much higher revenue impact than Anniversary reminders

  • AI-assisted journeys often outperform static messaging

  • Multi-channel orchestration generally increases recovery opportunities

Therefore, the scoring model prioritizes:

  • revenue influence

  • conversion probability

  • operational maturity

  • proven adoption patterns


Base Journey Scoring

Each journey has a predefined base score.

Examples:

Journey

Base Points

Abandon Cart

13

Product Viewed

8

Welcome Journey

5

Lead Generation

3

Price Drop

5

Higher-impact journeys receive larger base scores.

Feature Bonus Multipliers

Features add additional score multipliers on top of the base journey score.

Example feature multipliers:

Feature

Multiplier

AI Template

0.3

Anonymous User Recovery

0.6

AI Agent

0.7

Discount Block

0.5

Retry Logic

0.5

Multi-channel

0.5

Journey Score Formula

A journey’s total score is calculated as:

Example:

If:

  • Abandon Cart base score = 13

  • AI Agent multiplier = 0.7

Then:

13×0.7=9.113 times 0.7 = 9.113×0.7=9.1

Feature contribution = 9.1 points.

Overall Store Score Formula

The store score is normalized across all applicable journeys.

Formula:

This ensures:

  • stores are compared fairly

  • score inflation is avoided

  • merchants see percentage maturity instead of raw points

Example — Why Adding AI Agent May Increase Score by Only 2%

Step 1 — abandonedCart Base Score

Metric

Value

Base Journey Score

13

AI Agent Multiplier

0.7

Feature score:

13×0.7=9.113 times 0.7 = 9.113×0.7=9.1


Step 2 — Journey Total Before vs After

Before AI Agent

Components

Base = 13

Multi-channel = 6.5

Discount = 5.2

Retry = 6.5

Total:

13+6.5+5.2+6.5=31.2

After AI Agent Added

31.2+9.1=40.3


Maximum Possible Score

Each trigger has a theoretical maximum.

Example:

Trigger

Base Score

Applicable Features

Maximum Score

abandonedCart

13

ai_template + nitro + ai_agent + discount + retry_wa + multi_channel

52.0

abandonedCheckout

13

ai_template + nitro + ai_agent + discount + retry_wa + multi_channel

52.0

productViewed

8

ai_template + nitro + ai_agent + discount + retry_wa + multi_channel

32.0

keyword

8

ai_agent + retry_wa + multi_channel

21.6

waWidget

8

ai_agent + retry_wa

17.6

customerCreated

5

nitro + ai_agent + discount + retry_wa + multi_channel

18.5

lastOrderDate

5

discount + retry_wa + multi_channel

12.0

ctwa

5

ai_agent + retry_wa

11.0

priceDrop

5

ai_template + retry_wa + multi_channel

11.5

backInStock

5

ai_template + retry_wa + multi_channel

11.5

firstOrderDate

5

retry_wa + multi_channel

10.0

upsellProductDelivered

5

retry_wa + multi_channel

10.0

crossSellProductDelivered

5

ai_agent + retry_wa + multi_channel

13.5

purchasedAProduct

5

ai_agent + retry_wa + multi_channel

13.5

leadGenerated

3

retry_wa + multi_channel

6.0

igCommentOnPost

8

ai_agent

13.6

igCommentOnAds

8

ai_agent

13.6

igCommentOnDm

8

ai_agent

13.6

igPPDetection

8

No applicable features

8.0

manifestProductSearch

15

No applicable features

15.0

manifestProductDetails

15

No applicable features

15.0

manifestSimilarProducts

15

No applicable features

15.0

manifestCompletedQuiz

15

No applicable features

15.0

manifestLeadGenerated

15

No applicable features

15.0

Total possible store score:

416.5


Store Score Before vs After

Before AI Agent

Metric

Value

Total Achieved Score

151.2

Maximum Possible Score

416.5

Formula:

Store score = 36%


After AI Agent

Metric

Value

Total Achieved Score

160.3

Maximum Possible Score

416.5

Formula:

Store score = 38%


Why the Increase Appears Small

Although the AI Agent added:

+9.1 points

The total ecosystem denominator is very large:

416.5

Therefore, a single feature improvement may move the overall store score by only a few percentage points.

This is expected behavior.

The scoring system rewards:

  • breadth of automation adoption

  • depth of feature utilization

  • long-term ecosystem maturity

rather than isolated feature additions.


Recommendation Engine

The scoring engine also powers recommendations.

Recommendations are generated when:

  • a high-value journey is missing

  • an advanced feature is absent

  • a journey is not multi-channel enabled

  • retry logic is not configured

  • AI capabilities are not enabled

Examples:

Missing Capability

Recommendation

No Abandon Cart Journey

Create Abandon Cart Journey

No AI Agent

Add AI Agent Block

WhatsApp-only setup

Enable Multi-channel

No Retry Logic

Configure Retry Strategy

How Recommendations Work

The system:

  1. Reviews all journeys configured in a merchant store

  2. Detects enabled features

  3. Calculates achieved score

  4. Compares against possible score

  5. Identifies missing journeys/features

  6. Generates recommendations

  7. Recalculates score impact

This creates a continuous optimization loop.


Journey Revenue Score UI

The merchant-facing dashboard displays:

  • current journey revenue score store level

  • recommended actions

  • missing capabilities

  • suggested journeys

  • activation opportunities

The UI helps merchants progressively improve automation maturity.


Important Disclaimer

The Journey Score is an indicative operational maturity metric.

It is based on:

  • historical merchant patterns

  • observed conversion trends

  • past automation performance

  • internal benchmarking

  • feature adoption studies

However:

  • the score does not guarantee revenue increase

  • point allocation is directional and heuristic-based

The scoring system should be interpreted as:

A recommendation and optimization framework — not a guaranteed revenue prediction engine.


For further assistance or to raise feature requests related to journey score, please contact [email protected]


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