All about the Time delay step in Flodesk workflows

Flodesk gives you powerful control over when things happen in your workflow. 

The Time delay step allows you to specify exactly how long Flodesk should wait before moving subscribers to the next step in your workflow or checking to see if a condition is met. 

You can specify timing in the following ways:

Measured in minutes, hours, or days. Flodesk will wait for this specified amount of time before moving subscribers to the next step.

If your time delay is set to "wait 1 day", it will wait 24 hours before moving the subscriber to the next step. So, for example if your workflow sends an email on Monday at 10 am, and then you add a "wait 1 day" time delay, the next email will go out on Tuesday at 10 am.

You may specify which day(s) of the week Flodesk should wait for before moving subscribers to the next step. 

For example, if you select Monday and Wednesday, and a subscriber enters your workflow on a Tuesday, Flodesk will advance the subscriber to the next step on Wednesday because it is the first available day of the week match. 

You may select as many days of the week as you like.

You may specify the time of day Flodesk should wait for before moving subscribers to the next step. Flodesk will wait until the time matches on either the current day or the next day before advancing subscribers. 

For example, if you specify 12:00 am in your time delay and a subscriber enters your workflow at 1:00 am, Flodesk will wait for 12:00 am the next day to move the subscriber to the next step.

Note: if you want to send the email on a certain day of the week at a certain time of day, you need to add two Time delay steps below each other. First, add the day followed by the time of day. See below an example.

You may specify the specific day of the year Flodesk should wait for before moving subscribers to the next step. Flodesk will wait until the date matches your inputted date as well as the time you've selected on that date before advancing subscribers. 

For example, if you'd like to schedule a Black Friday campaign far in advance, you would select Nov. 28th at 5:30am—and Flodesk would wait until that date and time to take the next step.

If you're on workflows v2:

If the “Apply to any year” option is turned on and a subscriber enters the time delay step when the specified date has already passed, the time delay will be scheduled on the same day next year.

If the “Apply to any year” option is turned off and a subscriber enters the step when the specified date has already passed, the time delay step will be skipped and the subscriber is moved to the next step immediately.

Important: If you plan to add a condition based on emails opened or clicked to your workflow, make sure to add a Time delay before the condition so your subscribers have time to open and click your email. 

Please note: times and days of the week are based on your account's timezone. To edit your timezone, go to your Account settings dropdown > Account > Account details.