location by ip

This workflow automatically retrieves geographical location information based on the user's inputted IP address, intelligently determines whether the user is located in Spain, and subsequently sends a welcome email in the appropriate language. This process automates email sending, enhances user experience, and effectively improves the targeting of marketing efforts, making it particularly suitable for user registration and email marketing scenarios in multinational websites or applications. By simplifying multilingual communication, it helps businesses increase the relevance and satisfaction of user engagement.

Workflow Diagram
location_by_ip Workflow diagram

Workflow Name

location_by_ip

Key Features and Highlights

This workflow automatically retrieves the user's geographic location based on the input IP address and intelligently sends a welcome email in the appropriate language (Spanish or English) depending on whether the user is located in Spain. The process is highly automated and efficient, supporting precise localized communication.

Core Problem Addressed

It solves the need for automatic geographic location determination based on user IP and personalized email dispatch, eliminating the cumbersome manual process of identifying user location and sending emails in different languages. This enhances user experience and improves the targeting accuracy of marketing efforts.

Use Cases

  • Automated welcome email sending for new user registrations on multinational websites or applications
  • Email marketing campaigns that require language differentiation based on user location
  • Multilingual automated responses in customer support or notification systems

Main Workflow Steps

  1. Manually trigger the workflow execution.
  2. Create an entry containing the user’s IP address and email (example: IP 83.46.131.46, email miquel@uproc.io).
  3. Call a third-party API (uproc service) to obtain geographic location information based on the IP.
  4. Determine whether the user is located in Spain (country code "ES").
  5. Send a welcome email in Spanish or English accordingly, using AWS SES for email delivery.

Systems and Services Involved

  • uproc API: Used to retrieve geographic location information from the IP address.
  • AWS SES (Simple Email Service): Responsible for sending emails.
  • n8n node types including Manual Trigger, Function Item, and If conditional nodes.

Target Audience and Value

  • Marketers and product managers aiming to automate email sending based on user geographic location.
  • Multinational companies and multilingual service platforms looking to streamline multilingual user communication.
  • Developers and automation engineers seeking to quickly implement location recognition and personalized notification features via low-code solutions.

By intelligently determining the user’s geographic location and automatically sending emails in the corresponding language, this workflow significantly enhances the relevance and satisfaction of user interactions, making it an efficient tool for precise cross-border communication.