Braze connector
Automate Customer Engagement Workflows with Braze Integrations
Connect Braze to your entire data stack and trigger personalized campaigns from any event, anywhere in your business.
What can you do with the Braze connector?
Braze is a customer engagement platform used by growth and lifecycle marketing teams to deliver personalized messaging across push, email, SMS, and in-app channels. Integrating Braze with your CRM, data warehouse, product analytics, and support tools unlocks real-time, event-driven campaigns that respond to actual customer behavior. With tray.ai, you can build automation workflows that sync user attributes, trigger canvas entries, and route engagement data — no custom API code required.
Automate & integrate Braze
Automating Braze business process or integrating Braze data is made easy with tray.ai
Use case
Real-Time User Attribute Sync from CRM
Keep Braze user profiles accurate by syncing contact attributes from Salesforce, HubSpot, or other CRMs whenever records are created or updated. Segmentation, personalization tokens, and audience targeting in Braze will always reflect the latest customer data. No more manual CSV exports, no more stale data dragging down campaign performance.
Use case
Event-Driven Campaign Triggering from Product Analytics
Fire Braze custom events automatically when users complete product actions tracked in Mixpanel, Amplitude, or Segment, so behavior-based canvas triggers don't depend on SDK instrumentation alone. Route specific events like trial expiration, feature adoption milestones, or inactivity signals directly into Braze to send the right message at the right time. The gap between what users do in your product and how marketing responds finally closes.
Use case
Customer Support Ticket Escalation Messaging
When a support ticket in Zendesk or Intercom is marked urgent, escalated, or unresolved past an SLA threshold, automatically trigger a proactive Braze message to the affected user acknowledging the delay and setting expectations. This keeps customer trust intact during support friction and keeps communication teams aligned. Follow-up campaigns for users with open tickets get suppressed automatically, so you're not sending tone-deaf promotions to someone who's already frustrated.
Use case
E-Commerce Order and Fulfillment Notifications
Connect your Shopify, BigCommerce, or custom order management system to Braze to deliver order confirmation, shipping, and delivery updates through Braze's engagement infrastructure. Sync purchase events as Braze custom events to power purchase-based segmentation, RFM modeling, and post-purchase nurture flows. Customers stay informed at every fulfillment stage without you building a separate notification system.
Use case
User Subscription and Entitlement Sync
Automatically update Braze subscription groups and custom attributes when users upgrade, downgrade, or cancel subscriptions in Stripe, Recurly, or Chargebee. Email and SMS subscription states, plan tier attributes, and renewal dates in Braze stay synchronized with your billing system in real time. Use these attributes to trigger renewal reminders, win-back sequences, and upsell campaigns with accurate context.
Use case
Data Warehouse Cohort Activation
Push high-value audience cohorts computed in Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks directly into Braze as segments or canvas triggers, so data-science-driven targeting doesn't require manual exports. Schedule nightly or real-time cohort refreshes via tray.ai workflows so Braze always has your most sophisticated predictive and behavioral segments. Your data team's insights and your marketing team's execution finally talk to each other.
Use case
Cross-Channel Engagement Analytics Reporting
Automatically pull Braze campaign and canvas performance metrics via the Braze REST API and consolidate them in a Google Sheet, Looker dashboard, or Slack digest for daily or weekly reporting. Combine Braze engagement data with revenue metrics from your CRM or billing system to calculate true campaign ROI in a single report. Analysts get their hours back.
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Data Source
Look Up User Profile
Retrieve detailed user profiles from Braze, including attributes, custom events, and subscription states. An agent can use this data to personalize responses or decisions based on a user's engagement history.
Data Source
Fetch Campaign Analytics
Pull performance metrics for specific campaigns — open rates, click rates, conversions, and revenue. An agent can surface these numbers to marketing teams or use them to decide where a campaign needs adjustment.
Data Source
Query Segment Membership
Check which Braze segments a user belongs to so an agent can understand audience groupings and tailor downstream actions. Useful for routing users to appropriate workflows or personalizing outreach.
Data Source
Retrieve Canvas Details
Fetch the configuration and analytics of a Braze Canvas journey, including step performance and audience flow. An agent can use this to audit journeys, report on effectiveness, or spot where users are dropping off.
Data Source
List Available Segments
Retrieve all defined audience segments from Braze to give an agent context about available targeting options. Handy when an agent needs to pick or recommend the right segment for a campaign.
Agent Tool
Track Custom Events
Log custom events against a user's Braze profile in real time, letting an agent record meaningful actions — like a support resolution or a completed onboarding step — that can trigger downstream messaging.
Agent Tool
Update User Attributes
Set or update custom and standard attributes on a Braze user profile, such as subscription tier, account status, or preferences. An agent can keep user data accurate across systems when changes occur in other platforms.
Agent Tool
Trigger a Campaign Message
Kick off an API-triggered campaign in Braze to send a targeted message to one or more users. Good for transactional notifications, alerts, or follow-ups that need to fire based on real-time events.
Agent Tool
Enroll User in Canvas
Add a user to a Braze Canvas journey programmatically, letting an agent kick off multi-step engagement flows in response to external triggers like a CRM update or a support ticket closure.
Agent Tool
Create or Update Subscription Status
Manage a user's email or SMS subscription groups within Braze to stay compliant with opt-in and opt-out preferences. An agent can sync consent changes from other systems to keep Braze records current.
Agent Tool
Add User to Segment or List
Assign users to specific Braze lists or manage cohort data for accurate audience targeting. An agent can adjust segment membership on the fly based on behavioral signals coming in from external platforms.
Agent Tool
Send Transactional Email
Dispatch a transactional email through Braze's transactional messaging endpoint for time-sensitive communications like receipts, password resets, or alerts. An agent can trigger these in response to events detected across connected systems.
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Braze Challenges
What challenges are there when working with Braze and how will using Tray.ai help?
Challenge
Keeping User Profiles Consistent Across Dozens of Data Sources
Braze user profiles draw from dozens of custom attributes sourced from CRMs, billing systems, product databases, and support tools. Keeping all these attributes consistent and current requires constant synchronization that quickly becomes unmanageable with point-to-point integrations or manual processes.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai gives you a central orchestration layer where you define attribute mapping logic once and push updates to Braze from any source system. Built-in data transformation handles field name normalization, type casting, and conditional logic so Braze always receives clean, correctly formatted attribute payloads regardless of the source.
Challenge
Handling Braze API Rate Limits at Scale
The Braze REST API enforces per-endpoint rate limits that can cause failures when syncing large user cohorts, firing high-volume events, or running batch attribute updates during peak periods. Most teams only discover this after experiencing dropped data or failed campaign triggers in production.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai workflows include built-in retry logic, error handling branches, and configurable batching so large payloads are automatically chunked within Braze's batch size limits and rate-limited calls are retried with exponential backoff. Full execution logs make it straightforward to audit exactly which records succeeded or failed.
Challenge
Triggering Canvases from Events Outside the Braze SDK
Many of the most valuable customer signals — billing events, support escalations, offline conversions, ERP status changes — come from systems with no native Braze SDK integration. Wiring these systems to Braze canvas triggers typically requires custom backend code and ongoing engineering maintenance.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai acts as a universal event router, listening for webhooks, polling APIs, or consuming database change events from any source and translating them into Braze custom events or canvas trigger API calls. Non-engineering teams can connect new event sources to Braze campaigns through a visual workflow builder.
Challenge
Avoiding Tone-Deaf Marketing During Sensitive Customer Moments
Sending promotional campaigns to users who just filed a complaint, experienced a billing failure, or submitted a cancellation request damages trust and speeds up churn. Coordinating suppression logic across support, billing, and marketing systems is genuinely hard without a shared automation layer.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai workflows can monitor events in Zendesk, Stripe, or your CRM and immediately update a Braze custom attribute or subscription group to suppress the user from active campaigns. When the sensitive condition resolves — ticket closed, payment recovered — another workflow re-enrolls them automatically, keeping suppression logic dynamic and accurate.
Challenge
Syncing Consent and Subscription Preferences Across Platforms
GDPR and CAN-SPAM compliance require that email and SMS opt-in and opt-out signals captured in one system — whether a preference center, CRM, or support tool — are instantly reflected in Braze subscription groups. Delays or missed syncs can result in regulatory violations and lost subscriber trust.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai can intercept consent change events from any platform and immediately propagate the updated subscription group status to Braze via the Subscription Set API, so opt-outs are honored within seconds. Detailed logs provide the audit trail you need to demonstrate compliance with data protection regulations.
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Start from scratch or use one of our pre-built Braze templates to quickly solve your most common use cases.
Template
Salesforce Contact Update → Braze User Attribute Sync
Automatically updates Braze user profiles whenever a Salesforce contact record is modified, keeping lifecycle stage, account tier, and custom field data in sync for accurate segmentation.
Steps:
- Trigger on Salesforce contact updated event via polling or webhook
- Map Salesforce field values to corresponding Braze user attribute keys
- Call Braze Track Users API to upsert the user profile with new attributes
Connectors Used: Salesforce, Braze
Template
Stripe Subscription Canceled → Braze Win-Back Canvas Trigger
When a Stripe subscription is canceled, this template immediately fires a Braze custom event and updates the subscription status attribute to enroll the user in a win-back canvas flow.
Steps:
- Receive Stripe customer.subscription.deleted webhook event
- Update Braze user attribute subscription_status to canceled with cancellation date
- Fire Braze custom event subscription_canceled to trigger canvas entry
Connectors Used: Stripe, Braze
Template
Zendesk Escalated Ticket → Braze Suppression + Notification Message
Detects escalated Zendesk tickets and suppresses active marketing campaigns for the affected user while sending a proactive support acknowledgment message through Braze.
Steps:
- Trigger on Zendesk ticket escalated or priority set to urgent
- Add user to Braze suppression segment by updating a custom attribute in_active_support_ticket set to true
- Send Braze API-triggered message through a pre-built support acknowledgment campaign
Connectors Used: Zendesk, Braze
Template
Snowflake Cohort Export → Braze Segment Refresh
Runs a scheduled Snowflake query to compute a high-value customer cohort and syncs the resulting user list into a Braze segment using external IDs, refreshing on a configurable schedule.
Steps:
- Execute scheduled Snowflake SQL query to fetch cohort user external IDs
- Batch user IDs and call Braze Users Track or segment endpoints to tag cohort membership attribute
- Log sync results and send a summary notification to Slack
Connectors Used: Snowflake, Braze
Template
Braze Campaign Stats → Google Sheets Weekly Report
Pulls campaign and canvas send, open, click, and conversion metrics from the Braze REST API on a weekly schedule and appends them to a Google Sheet for stakeholder reporting.
Steps:
- Trigger on weekly schedule and call Braze Campaign Analytics REST API for each active campaign
- Transform and flatten metric data into row format with date and campaign name
- Append rows to Google Sheets and post a summary card to a designated Slack channel
Connectors Used: Braze, Google Sheets, Slack
Template
Shopify Order Placed → Braze Purchase Event + Transactional Email
Captures every new Shopify order and records it as a Braze purchase event to power purchase-based segments, while triggering a branded transactional order confirmation through Braze.
Steps:
- Receive Shopify order created webhook and extract order details and customer identifiers
- Log Braze purchase event with product SKUs, revenue, and currency via the Track Users endpoint
- Trigger Braze API-triggered transactional email campaign with order details as personalization properties
Connectors Used: Shopify, Braze