How to use Scheduler by Zapier

Zapier How-Tos

Feb 7

What is Scheduler by Zapier?

Scheduler by Zapier is a tool that incorporates time into your Zaps. Like many other marketing methods, time is a valuable factor in your automations. Whether you are queuing up a daily digest, scheduling posts on your socials, or trigger a data migration, Scheduler by Zapier gives you plenty of options to take advantage of timely marketing. Seconds, Days, Hours, Months, etc. Rather than starting a basic automation yourself each day, trust in the Scheduler to take care of it.

Setting Up a Zap with Scheduler

1. Choose Scheduler as your Trigger Event

Choose your event based on the time you'd like to schedule your automation. Every day, hour, month, or week.

Choose Scheduler by Zapier as your Trigger Event

2. Dictate the Scheduler's Constraints

Based on your timeframe, choose the constraints of your scheduler. Choose the time of day or select the amount of time in the future you would like to schedule your task. Select continue.

Selecting noon to be the scheduler's trigger event

3. Test your Scheduler Trigger

Test to make sure your Scheduler is working. If so, add your action. Like anything in Zapier, you can add basically any app as an action. See the examples at the bottom of this post for some ideas.

test the scheduler trigger

Email Parser by Zapier Examples

Schedule a Social Media Post:
- Schedule post for the perfect time of day.
Send out a Newsletter/Mass Email:
- Schedule a newsletter when you’re out of the office.
Scheduled Data Transfer:
- Schedule a consistent transfer of data from one place to another (eg. Sheets to Mailchimp).
New Product Launch
- Publish a new product to Shopify at a launch time.
Massive Coordinated Omni-Channel Campaign
- Build and schedule a multi-faceted marketing campaign on multiple platforms.
Zapier’s example:
- Schedule daily emails or SMS notifications

There are thousands of other possibilities for you to take advantage of. With this tool, you’ll be getting work done even when your out of the office. Other Zapier tools like Filter by Zapier or Paths by Zapier can help streamline more complicated processes to save even more time!

Schedule more than just your meetings. Organize your automations to cover more ground on the day to day.

Don’t know where to start? We can help.

Matt Stephens

Chatham Oaks was founded after seeing the disconnect between small business owners and the massive marketing companies they consistently rely on to help them with their marketing.

Seeing the dynamic from both sides through running my own businesses and working for marketing corporations to help small businesses, it was apparent most small businesses needed two things:

simple, effective marketing strategy and help from experts that actually care about who they are and what is important to their unique business.

https://www.chathamoaks.co