Scheduling an email

Can Buttondown see the future? Sadly, no. But we do know one thing for certain: you can schedule newsletter emails to send at the exact date and time you wish. To learn more about how you can schedule and send your email, keep reading.

To schedule an email to send in the future, you need:

• An email draft that you're ready to send to your subscribers
• A subscriber base that's excited for new content (Need to import your subscribers? Our “Registration & Setup” page will walk you through it)

If you don't have those two things ready, read the docs linked above and come back to this page when you're ready.

To send a scheduled email:

1. Open the email that you wish to send.
2. Click on Send located in the bottom. A drawer will appear.
3. Navigate to the Schedule section, and expand it.
4. Select Send at a specified time.
5. Set the target date and time for the email to be sent on.
6. In the "Ready to send?" section, click Send.

A quick note about timezones: when you schedule an email, make sure that your time zone reflects the time zone you are in as well as the time when you want to send the email. Scheduling an email to send at 9am Pacific Time will send it at 12pm (noon) Eastern Time.

You did it! Now you won't need to see the future to know that your email will be sent and published, exactly how you scheduled it.