Anonymous cart that returns as a logged-in user
A visitor browses three products anonymously, adds two to a cart and closes the tab. Two days later they sign in from a different network to check out. Without stitching, you get two separate profiles. The abandoned-cart trigger never fires, and the conversion is attributed to a paid channel that did not influence the first session.
With Pipes, the cookie from session one and the email from
session two merge into one profile when the login event lands. The abandoned-cart
journey fires within seconds, with the original products.
cookie_A1 Profile P1 created with 1 cookie. view_item and add_to_cart attach to P1.
cookie_A1 + email_X Pipes matches cookie_A1 to P1 and attaches email_X.
email_X Abandoned-cart journey triggers with the original products.
What this enables: abandoned-cart journeys fire for returning visitors who looked anonymous on the first session.