Setting up the delay for your follow-ups
1. After adding a new email, click the clock icon to open follow-up settings.
2. Decide on how many hours or days after the previous email Woodpecker should wait before sending a follow-up. By default, Woodpecker always adds 3 more days (after the first Step) unless a prospect replies. For the next steps, the number of days is successively 6, 12, and 18 until the last Step (the 12th).
Your follow-ups will be sent according to your settings unless your prospect replies to your campaign or opts out.
Sending during weekends
The timing of sending follow-ups depends on the settings of the delay itself as well as the days available in the sending windows.
When you set the delay to 3 days, Woodpecker first checks if 3 x 24 hours have passed since the dispatch of the previous email. After that, the system checks whether sending on a given day and time is allowed.
For example, with the settings as in the picture below – sending allowed on all days of the week – if the first email goes out on Thursday, the next email can be sent on Sunday.
However, if the settings look as shown below (weekend excluded), and the first email will also be sent on Thursday, the follow-up can be sent on Monday at the earliest.
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