Remove People from a Flow
People leave a Flow in one of three ways:
- Default: when the Flow ends for them.
- Forcefully: using the End Flow Step.
- Forcefully: through a Filter Step.
Let's explore each one separately.
When the Flow ends for the person
Using the End Flow Step
The End Flow Action Step can eject people from the current Flow and/or other Flows. By default, the End Flow Step is configured to eject people from the current Flow only.
Let's say you have an onboarding email sequence and you want to stop sending onboarding emails when people upgrade their subscriptions. To do that you could create a separate sub-flow with Trigger Tag Added "paying-user" → End Flow.
It's important to note that the End Flow Step will remove people from the whole Flow. If you have two or more paths that are not connected, the person will be removed from all of them. For instance, in the scenario below the person will be removed both from the onboarding sequence (on the left) and the other sequence (on the right):
Important note: People can re-enter a Flow even when they pass through the End Flow Step. Learn how people can enter and re-enter a Flow.
Using a Filter Step
If a person does not satisfy the conditions of a Filter Step (and depending on how the Filter Step is connected to the rest of the Flow) he or she will leave the Flow.
Filter Steps put people into different paths based on meeting or not meeting the conditions of the Step. If a path does not have a link to other Steps, the person will leave the Flow.
Let's examine the Flow below:
We're using a Check Field Filter Step to put people into different paths based on their country. If the country is US we send them down the email sequence, otherwise, we create a deal in HubSpot.
Now, let's examine the exact same Flow but without the link to the Create HubSpot Deal Step.
If a person is from the US they would still continue down the Flow. However, if the person is not from the US the Flow will end for them on the Check Field Filter Step, simply because there's no path for them to continue in the Flow.
Removing a specific person from a Flow using the Filter Step
The easiest way to remove a specific person from a Flow is to use a Filter Step.
The Check Field Filter Step allows you to be very specific with who you Filter out. For instance, you can use the Email address field to target a specific person.
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