Delay by Zapier – adding delays to your Zaps

The Delay by Zapier app allows you to add time delays to subsequent action steps. This can be extremely useful in both simple and more complex workflows where you may want to prevent further action steps from running for a set period or until a specific time.

Important note

The maximum time a delayed task can be held is 1 month – that is, 31 days.

This app can only be used as an action step and added after a trigger step or between action steps to delay the running of subsequent action steps. The following action events can be used:

• Delay For (action)
• Delay Until (action)
• Delay After Queue (action)

Let’s look at each.

The Delay For action event

This action event waits for a set amount of time before running any further actions in the Zaps. Here are a few examples of how to use the Delay by Zapier Delay For action event:

• When a Typeform web form has been submitted, send an...