---
title: "Scheduling email and drafts"
canonical: https://syncek.com/docs/email/scheduling-and-drafts
locale: en
author: "Syncek"
---

# Scheduling email and drafts

Syncek can send an email you write in it at a time you choose, up to 90 days
ahead. Click the arrow beside **Send** in the composer, pick **Tomorrow
morning**, **Tomorrow afternoon**, **Monday morning** or a date and time of your
own, and confirm with **Schedule send**. The email waits in **Scheduled**, in the
Emails area, and goes out on time without you having Syncek open.

## Picking the time

Times are shown in your timezone. The morning options mean 8:00 and the
afternoon one 13:00, and the earliest you can pick is a minute from now.

The arrow is greyed out while any recipient is not linked to a record. **Send**
can create a missing record and send straight away, but scheduling cannot, so
link the recipient first. The checks that run before a normal send, an empty subject
or an attachment you mention and forgot, run before scheduling too.

Variables are filled in when you schedule, and again if you edit or reschedule.
A change to the record after that does not reach the email. Variables are
explained in [Email templates](https://syncek.com/docs/email/templates).

## While it waits

**Scheduled** lists only the email you scheduled, each with its send time and a
countdown. Each row's menu offers **Send now**, **Reschedule** and **Cancel
send**.
Cancelling moves the email back to **Drafts**, and you can select several rows
to cancel them together.

Click the subject to edit the email. Your changes are kept only when you click
**Save**, and the send time stays as it was: change it with **Reschedule**.

If a send fails, the row says **Failed** with the reason. **Retry now** sends it
again, and **Reschedule** gives it a new time.

## Drafts

Syncek saves what you write about a second after you stop typing, and
**Drafts** lists your unsent email. Open one to carry on. **Discard draft**, the
bin icon in the composer, deletes it after asking.

When to send the next message is a question of cadence rather than of Syncek:
[how often to follow up with a lead](https://syncek.com/blog/how-often-to-follow-up-with-a-lead).