Guni facilitates you to schedule your bulk and quick messages according to desirable Time Zone. Here are the details you will need to schedule one.

Scheduling Options –

Guni provides you one time scheduling option, accompanied with Reoccurring schedules in Campaign. These are-

• One Time Schedule – Allows you to schedule a quick message or campaign for one time sending.
• Reoccurrence Schedule – Allows you to schedule same campaign for multiple time sending. Like Once in a week for a month. These reoccurring schedules are available in
  • Daily – Sends daily for the selected timeframe.
  • Weekly – Sends on weekly durations for the selected timeframe.
  • Monthly – Sends on monthly duration for selected timeframe.

Scheduling Quick Message –

Quick message can only be scheduled for one time sending. Here are the steps –

• Click on ‘Messaging‘ dropdown from menu.
• Select ‘New Message‘.

• Create your quick message as per requirement by
  • Selecting type – SMS/MMS
  • Providing audience – You can simply add receivers by pasting, typing , searching the contacts. You can also select groups if needed.
  • Selecting Sender ID – Select the desired sender.
  • Message Content – Type in your message content, you can add templates, short URL, Unicode. Adding Personalisation is possible for contacts searched by names or if you select a Group.

• Click on ‘Later’ for Scheduling the message.

• A panel with your browser time zone will appear for scheduling.

• Click the panel for selecting the date & time you wish to send message at.
• Select date or manually type the date and time field as per schedule requirement.

• Click on ‘Select time’ option if you wish to select time instead of typing.
• Click on ‘Select Date’ if you wish to change to select sending date.

• Click on ‘Ok’ button when you have selected date and time as message schedule.
• Click on ‘Send‘ button to finalize the schedule sending.

• Your message will be ‘Scheduled’.

How to schedule a Campaign as ‘One Time Schedule’

• Click on ‘Campaign‘ from menu.
• Click on ‘Run Campaign’.
• Enter Campaign Medium, name , type and sender ID, click ‘Next’.
• Pick your Audience by selecting contact groups or pasting contacts and click ‘Next’. It is also possible to schedule with selected and filtered contacts.
• Enter you message , add short URL, template, Unicode according to requirement. You can not add personalisation for pasted contacts.
• Send Test Message.
• Verify campaign details.
• Click on ‘Later’ to Schedule the campaign.

• A panel will appear for scheduling.
• Your default Time Zone from settings will be selected by default for message schedule.

• Click on Time Zone dropdown if you wish to change it, and select the desired form the menu.

• Now, change date and time by clicking on the schedule time displayed.
• You can type it yourself as well.

• Click on ‘Ok’ after selecting campaign schedule.
• Click ‘Save’ to save the schedule.

• Click on ‘Send’ to send the campaign Schedule.

• Click on ‘Send Schedule’ from the panel that appeared.

• Click on ‘OK’ as confirmation.

• Your Campaigned will be scheduled for one time.