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3348009 - SAP Marketing - Subscriptions missing in Contact Profile App

Symptom

Subscriptions with communication category and relevant interaction can be found on contact profile. However, subscriptions are not displayed in the "Permission Marketing" tab

Environment

  • SAP Marketing Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Import subscriptions with relevant communication category
  2. Check subscriptions under tab "Permission Marketing" on contact profile app

Cause

Subscriptions are supported exclusively for the Email Newsletter scenario, meaning only the EMAIL communication medium is relevant. Although subscriptions can technically be imported with different communication media and ID origins, only EMAIL-based subscriptions are considered during processing and are displayed in the contact UI. 

Resolution

Subscription-enabled communication categories only work with the communication medium Email, where the origin is EMAIL. Other origins, such as SMS or custom-defined origins, are not supported.

See Also

This design is documented in the online help as well:

  1. Permissions and Subscriptions
    Subscriptions are a special form of permissions, which are only valid for a certain marketing context, for example, a newsletter or event. In contrast to permissions, there are no default subscriptions. Subscriptions are only available for the email communication medium. They can be overridden by opting out of general email permissions.
  2. Communication Categories and Limits

Keywords

opt in, opt out, permission, subscription. , KBA , CEC-MKT-DM-PER , Marketing permissions , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions