Add an specific date as a delay time in a flow

Hi @Pintxel and welcome to the Community!

Just as @Techie Mommy Laurice mentioned, flows are triggered by customer actions, and the time delay functions are dependent on those actions, which means that it’s not possible for a flow to be triggered on a manually-set date.

However, Campaigns can be scheduled in advance for a specific date, so you can simulate a triggered flow by creating a Campaign for your subscribers list using the Determine Recipients at Send Time function. This function ensures that the Campaign is updated to include every subscriber that’s joined between the time that you created the Campaign and the moment that it’s delivered to the recipients. The option is available at the Review step of Campaign creation, and you must choose a time and time zone in order for it to appear:

You can replicate this simulated flow as many times as you like, but there is a caveat to look out for:

Say you’d like to send another welcome email to new Subscribers on the specific date of Dec. 10, but don’t want the recipients of the Nov. 26 email to receive a duplicate. Then you should create a new Segment of customers that have subscribed after you sent the Nov. 26 email. This can be accomplished by navigating to Lists & Segments > Create List / Segment > Segment > Define Conditions below:

Now when you go to send your Campaign, just select this newly created Segment instead of the entire Subscriber’s List, so that no older subscribers receive a duplicate:

For even more perspective on this issue, feel free to check out this thread that was answered by my colleague, David:

Hope this helps and thanks for using the Community!

-Brian