SMS Desk: How to schedule an SMS publish?

In SMS Desk, you can easily schedule messages to be sent at a future date and time — just like you would with emails.

You might schedule an SMS to send the day before your campaign goes live, or use it as a reminder for an event created in EventsDesk.

Steps to schedule an SMS publish: 

1. Go to SMS Desk > SMS Dashboard
2. Select the SMS folder where you have saved your SMS. 
3. Under the Publish an SMS Column, click Publish. 

4. The Publish SMS window will show. 

• Publish time: Select Send Later

  • Send Later - It will open a calendar so you can select the date and time when this SMS should published. Select this option if your need to schedule the send at a later date and time.
    
     

    

5. Click from inside the Send Later dialog box. It will display the calendar. Select the date when you want to send/publish the SMS. 
 

6. After selecting the date, you need to select the time - hour when you want to send/publish the SMS. This is using 24-hour time format. 

 

7. Next, you need to select the time - in minutes, when you want to send/publish the SMS. You can only select every 5-minutes.

 

8. Once Send Later date and time is set, continue with the rest of the SMS publishing steps. 



You can refer to the following Guides for other details on Publishing Steps: 

• SMS Desk: How to publish SMS as One-Way (Branded)?
• SMS Desk: How to publish SMS as 2-way (Number)?