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Wait Timers - Settings to advance if within a time range (i.e. during business hours)

Kristan Bullinger

In our previous system, we were able to add a wait timer to fire during only certain days of the week (which is available now) AND during specific time ranges on those days. We used this for having certain campaigns only fire during our business hours. So we would set "Wait until day = Mon-Fri AND Time is between 7a-5p."   Today, my only option is to send at a specific time and if that time has passed the contact waits until the next business day to advance. I'd like them to advance immediately if they opt in during our business hours, but wait until 7am M-F if they opt in after hours. Thanks for considering.

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Hey, yeah.. this would be a cool little feature. For now, I've created a campaign for you that you can use to the same effect. 

Add this campaign to your account, set your business hours in the condition, and publish the campaign.

Then, in any other campaign, to pause the contact until you're open, simply use an 'Add to Campaign' element and add them to this Campaign. They will pause on that 'Add to Campaign' element until they reach the 'end' in this campaign, which will happen when your business opens again.

Give it a shot! 

This is a good use-case, and I'll explain how this works on next week's Training Tuesday on Facebook.

Log in to your Ontraport account, and then click this link to get my template campaign: https://app.ontraport.com/receivers/marketplace.php?key=13102&hash=b25Sang4NEl2dWMwVQ==&ref=491836


Cheers!

Landon Ray
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I agree. This is a fairly basic functionality that is missing. 

Marita Kerry 2 votes
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