Send it early
Rather not wait for the clock? The band's Send now button delivers immediately, and everything proceeds exactly as a same-day send would.
Set it and step back
Pick the moment, then let it go.
Not every invitation should go out the second you finish it. Choose the date and time it should land — in your own time zone — pay once at checkout just as you would today, and step away. The only thing that waits is the delivery. No reminder to yourself, no coming back to press a button.
- Pick any future date and time
- Pay once — only delivery waits
- Cancel or reschedule anytime
On the send step
Choose when, down to the minute.
When your design and guest list are ready, the send step asks one question: when should it go out? Pick Schedule for… instead of Send now, set the date and time you have in mind, and check out. It's the same single payment as sending today — only the delivery is held back, waiting for the hour you chose.
- Send now or Schedule for… — your call on the send step
- Set any future date and time, read back in your time zone
- Pay once at checkout — nothing else waits, just the sending
Start to finish
How a scheduled send runs itself.
Choose the time
On the final send step, pick Schedule for… and set when it should go out — at least about ten minutes ahead, and no later than your event's start.
Pay once, now
Agree to the terms and check out — the same one-time payment as sending today. The send never charges you a second time when it fires.
See it on the calendar
A Sends… band appears on your Host Desk and Guests tab — Sends Fri, Jul 25 · 6:00 PM — with Send now and Cancel schedule always a tap away.
It sends itself
At your chosen time the invitations go out on their own, and everything that follows a normal send — replies, receipts, reminders — begins right then.
Nothing is locked in
Yours to change up to the last minute.
A schedule is a plan, not a commitment — right until the moment it fires.
Cancel and keep editing
Cancel the schedule and your event drops back to a draft — fully editable — with your payment still on it, ready to send or reschedule whenever you like.
Reschedule freely
A new time is just cancel-and-pick-again: reopen the send step or use the band, choose a fresh date and time, and you're set.
Call it off, it's void
Cancel the whole event before it fires and the schedule is voided with it — every pending message stopped, so the invitation simply never goes out.
The best time to send is rarely the moment you happen to finish. Set the hour it should arrive, and let the evening you picked do the sending for you.
After it fires
Once it sends, it's just a send.
A scheduled invitation is no lesser thing. The instant it goes out it behaves exactly like one you sent by hand — replies land live, delivery and open receipts fill in, and reminders begin chasing the guests who stay quiet. And your guests never see a trace of the timing behind it; to them, it simply arrived.
- Replies and receipts track from the moment it sends
- Automatic reminders pick up the non-responders
- Guests never know it was scheduled — it just arrives
Right on schedule
Written today, sent right on time.
Pick the moment your invitation goes out — checkout settles now, delivery waits for the day and minute you chose.
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Common questions
Good to know.
Do I pay when I schedule, or when it sends?
When you schedule. You check out once, right then — the same single payment as sending today — and only the delivery waits for the time you picked. The send itself never charges you a second time.
Can I change or cancel a scheduled send?
Any time before it goes out. A Sends… band on your Host Desk lets you send immediately or cancel the schedule, which drops the event back to an editable draft with your payment still on it. Rescheduling is simply cancel and pick a new time.
What time zone does the schedule use?
Yours. You pick the date and time in your own time zone and it reads back the same way — for example, Sends Fri, Jul 25 · 6:00 PM. Guests in other time zones still receive it at that exact moment.
How far ahead can I schedule?
From about ten minutes out to any time before your event starts. A send set just ten or fifteen minutes ahead even makes a handy undo — a short window to change your mind before it goes.
Do my guests know the invitation was scheduled?
No. A scheduled invitation arrives exactly like one sent by hand — same email or text, same RSVP link — with no hint of the timing behind it.
What if I cancel the event before it sends?
The schedule is voided along with it and the invitation never goes out. Canceling an event stops all of its pending messages, scheduled sends included.
Goes well with
More from the toolkit.
- Send & remindSend now or schedule ahead — by email, text (US & Canada) or link — then follow up with email RSVP reminders.
- Guest messagingOne inbox for every guest — broadcast or chat one-to-one, and they reply with no account.
- Time capsulesSealed on the day, delivered years later — and the graduation one gets graded.
Ready when you are
Build it free, send when it's ready.
Set the date, set the time, and let your invitation send itself — pick a design to begin.
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