> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Video: Set Up Powerful Email Automations

> Seven-minute video walking a failed-payment flow end to end, the companion to the Build an Automation guide, covering wait, filter, and split nodes.

Set your brand up first, since automations inherit the design system.

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Walks a failed-payment flow end to end, using Stripe payload fields inside the email itself. Then covers wait, filter, and split nodes, and how to pause a live flow.

Related guides: [Build an Automation](/create-emails/build-an-automation), with the full node and state reference in [Automations](/create-emails/automations).

## Chapters

Chapter links open the video in a new tab, at that exact moment.

* [0:42 Set up your brand first](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=39). Automations inherit your design system.
* [0:58 Trigger types](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=55). Integration events, custom HTTP, or a manual audience.
* [1:51 Generate a failed-payment flow](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=108). Brew decides how many emails the scenario needs.
* [2:41 Use payload fields in the email](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=158). The email pulls the failure reason from the Stripe event.
* [3:31 Publish the flow](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=208). Live for future payment failures.
* [4:15 A real multi-step welcome flow](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=252). Brew's own onboarding, triggered by a Clerk event.
* [4:50 Email and wait nodes](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=287). How to pace messages across a longer journey.
* [5:25 Filter and split nodes](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=322). Continue only for contacts who match, or branch in two.
* [6:02 Pause or edit a live flow](https://www.loom.com/share/8a4333b8b40e40ac99ad4626c5fdb7ae?t=359). Unpublish before changing a running automation.

Next video: [Import Figma, HTML, and Inbox Emails](/brew-university/import-designs).