# Scheduled Delay - Novu Changelog

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Last updated: 2025-10-06T14:01:00.000Z

Schedule your workflows with precision - pause until the exact minute, hour, or weekday in each subscriber’s local time, and even align delivery with their working hours.

Published: 2025-10-06T14:01:00.000Z

Categories: Workflow Steps, Delay

You can now **schedule workflow pauses using an intuitive time selector** - allowing you to delay messages until an exact time, day, or week in your subscriber’s local timezone.

This new **Scheduled Delay** option (when configuring the **Delay** step) provides developers with fine-grained, time-aware control over workflow timing, allowing you to match your subscribers’ schedules, respect working hours, and ensure messages arrive at the optimal moment, not just after a fixed interval.

**What you get:**

- **Two delay modes:** choose between

  - **Regular Delay:** wait a fixed duration (e.g. “5 minutes”)

  - **Scheduled Delay**: wait until a specific time or date pattern

- **Flexible scheduling options:**

  - **Until minute** — delay until the next minute mark

  - **Until hour** — at X minute(s) of the hour

  - **Until day** — at X hour(s) : X minute(s)

  - **Until week** — choose one or more days (Mon–Sun) at X hour(s) : X minute(s)

  - **Until month** — choose specific day(s) of the month and time of day

- **Time zone–aware delivery:** All delays are evaluated and executed in the subscriber’s local time zone.

- **Working hours support:** toggle **“Extend to subscriber’s schedule”** to automatically hold delivery until the subscriber’s next available time window.

- **Configurable limits:** by default, delays can extend up to **1 day** (contact support to extend for longer intervals)

**Example use cases:**

- Send a **weekly digest** every Friday at 9:00 AM subscriber local time.

- Deliver a **trial reminder** at 8:00 AM on the day of expiry.

- Respect user schedules by **delaying notifications until working hours**.

**How to use it:**

In the workflow editor → add a **Delay** step → select **“Scheduled”** → configure your timing (minute, hour, day, week, or month) and enable **“Extend to subscriber’s schedule”** if needed.