Who receives reminders, and who never will

The consent rules Repeatly follows, why some customers are skipped, and how to change the policy deliberately.

📦 Repeatly5 min readUpdated 2026-08-22

This is the setting worth understanding properly, because it is both a legal question and the most common reason a merchant asks why so few reminders went out.

The default

Out of the box, Repeatly only emails customers who accepted marketing at checkout. In Shopify this is the customer's email marketing consent state. If your checkout does not show a marketing opt-in box, almost nobody will have accepted, and your recipient list will look empty.

You can enable that box in your Shopify admin under Settings → Checkout, in the customer contact section.

Who is always excluded

Turning the consent requirement off

Repeatly lets you send to customers without marketing consent, but only you can decide whether that is lawful for your business and your market. In the EU and UK, a reorder reminder for a product the customer already bought from you may fall under the soft opt-in for existing customers — but that depends on your jurisdiction and how you collected the address. If you are unsure, keep the default.

Why a specific customer got nothing

Open the recipients page and search for their address. The status badge answers the question immediately: active, no consent, or unsubscribed. If they are active and still received nothing, check whether the product has a learned interval and whether the reminder is scheduled — the upcoming sends list shows the next seven days.

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