Smart Campaign Email Tab discrepancy with smart campaign results

Issue

Smart campaign email tab's count for soft bounced and delivered activities does not match the number of soft bounced and delivered activities in smart campaign results tab

Example:

  1. Email tab shows 5 soft bounces, whereas, results show 6 soft bounce activities
  2. Email tab shows 10 delivered, whereas, results show 13 delivered activities

Solution

The email tab on a smart campaign is an Email Performance Report so it is calculated based on documented rules at Email Performance Report | Adobe Marketo
 

Root Cause

  1. There was one lead that opened the email, so the lead was not counted as soft bounced on the email performance report and was counted as email opened based on email performance report rule #4 "If the email is Opened, bounces are ignored."
  2. There were three leads that had soft bounce activity also had a delivered email activity. Based on email performance report rule #1 "Each email activity record is set to one, and only one, of the following: Delivered, Hard Bounced, Soft Bounced, or Pending." - in this case, soft bounce takes precedence over delivered email activity so the three leads were not counted as delivered on the report but were counted as soft bounce.

Environment

  • Smart campaign
  • Email tab
  • Smart campaign results
  • Email performance report