How to Schedule an Email in Outlook 365

ContactMonkey's Send Later feature lets you compose an email now and schedule it to send at a future date and time. This is perfect for coordinating with different timezones, ensuring messages arrive at optimal engagement times, or preparing communications in advance.

Before you can schedule an email, you must first create and save your draft. If you're new to this process, learn how by reading this article.

Not using Outlook 365? Click here for Outlook Non-365 or here for Dashboard Sending.

Scheduling Your Email

Once your email is finalized, you can schedule it directly from the ContactMonkey Add-in.

1. Open a New Message in Outlook
2. Add your recipients in the To field and populate your subject line
3. Open the ContactMonkey Add-in and insert your desired email
4. Click the clock icon to the right of Send & Track
5. Click the calendar text box and select the date and time the email will send
6. Click Schedule to confirm. Your email is now queued to send at the selected time.

Note on Timezones: All scheduled sends are based on the timezone set in your ContactMonkey profile settings. Organizations with List Management may refer here for the Timezone Sending feature.

Managing a Scheduled Email

You can easily preview, reschedule, or cancel your scheduled email at any time before it is sent.

1. Click Emails at the top of your dashboard
2. Select the Scheduled tab to view all emails that are queued to be sent
3. Locate the email you wish to manage. You can use the search bar or scroll through the list
4. Click on the email to open the options menu, where you can choose to Preview, Reschedule, Apply Tag, or Cancel the scheduled send