Understanding the SMS deliverability hub in Klaviyo

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Updated Nov 21, 2024, 3:47 PM EST
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Learn about Klaviyo’s account-level SMS deliverability reporting. The SMS tab in Klaviyo’s deliverability hub is a centralized space that allows you to analyze and diagnose your SMS deliverability health across all your sends. 

The account deliverability hub 

The account deliverability hub 

The Deliverability hub in Klaviyo allows you to analyze and diagnose your email and SMS deliverability health at the account level. 

To access the page, navigate to the Deliverability tab under Analytics.

SMS hub interface in Klaviyo

To analyze your SMS deliverability, select the SMS tab.

SMS deliverability hub content

SMS deliverability hub content

Filters

Filters

At the top of the deliverability hub’s SMS tab, you can set filters that apply to all the SMS reports. 

Available filters in the SMS deliverability hub

The following filters are available:

  • Time period
    • Last 7 days
    • Last 30 days
    • Last 90 days
    • Custom
  • Message type (i.e., campaign or flow)
  • Message format (i.e., SMS, MMS, or both)
Alerts

Alerts

The Alerts section is a collapsable card that appears when an SMS deliverability issue has been identified on your account. Each alert indicates a key deliverability metric is experiencing poor performance, and provides details about the issue with a link to a troubleshooting guide for resolution steps. 

Alerts are based on data from the last 7 days. 

You’ll see alerts in the following situations: 

  • Device Disconnected failures exceed 5% of the total send
  • Device Unreachable failures exceed 5% of the total send 
  • Carrier Violation errors exceed 10% of the total send
  • Message Blocked errors exceed 5% of the total send
  • Device Incapable of Receiving SMS errors exceed 5% of the total send
  • Toll Free Number not registered / Number not Verified 
  • Unknown errors exceed 10% of the total send
  • Click rate below 6.0%
  • Unsubscribe rate above 1.3%

SMS deliverability alerts

Learn more about the different SMS failure reasons and how to resolve them.

Key metrics 

Key metrics 

On the Key metrics card, you’ll see an overview of the key SMS deliverability health metrics and your performance for each one. 

 These metrics are:

  • Delivery rate
  • Fail rate
  • Click rate
  • Unsubscribe rate

Beneath each metric is a badge showing you how your performance changed since the last time period. Additionally, you can toggle between Rate and Count to view your metrics as a percentage or a total count. 

Key rates of metrics impacting SMS deliverability score Key counts metrics impacting SMS deliverability score

Compare your performance to Klaviyo’s SMS benchmarks.

Fail details

Fail details

The Fail details chart provides insight towards why your messages are failing to be delivered to recipients. 

You view this information through the segmented bar chart showing the volume of each failure reason.

Segmented bar chart showing SMS failure reports

Alternatively, you can toggle the view to the line graph that shows your performance for the different failure reason over time.

Line graph showing SMS failures in Klaviyo

Recent campaigns performance

Recent campaigns performance

The Recent campaign performance card shows you the recent SMS campaigns on your account that have the most impact on your overall deliverability.

Campaign performance report contributing to SMS deliverability

You can toggle between campaigns that have a Healthy status and campaigns that have a Needs attention status. The Healthy toggle shows the 5 most recent campaigns that have all metrics in a healthy zone. When the Needs attention toggle is chosen, the 5 most recent campaigns that have at least 2 metrics in the Needs attention range will be shown. 

Flows performance

Flows performance

The Recent flows performance card shows you the flows on your account that have the most impact on your overall deliverability. 

Flows performance report contributing to SMS deliverability

You can toggle between flows that have a Healthy status and flows that have a Needs attention status. The Healthy toggle shows the 5 most recent flows that have all metrics in a healthy zone. When the Needs attention toggle is chosen, the 5 most recent flows that have at least 2 metrics in the Needs attention range will be shown. 

Additional resources

Additional resources

Understanding SMS failure reasons and resolution steps

Understanding the account email deliverability hub

Understanding and reviewing your SMS deliverability

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