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Schedule by Summit is a new app for Zapier that upgrades Zapier’s built-in calendar-based trigger by adding options for:

• Running an automation "every 2 days", "every other week", or "end of month.”
• Run an automation “X business days before” another recurring date (ex. payroll).
• Setting an end date for a workflow to stop automatically.
• Scheduling a one-time run "in 3 weeks" or "on October 23rd, 2024”.
• Setting a maximum number of times a workflow will run.

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Why?

No-code platforms need better calendar-based workflow scheduling. Users of platforms like Zapier, Make, HubSpot, Customer.io, etc. who have business processes that do not adhere to the handful of patterns currently supported (Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly) have voiced their frustrated with the limitations and lack of options and are resorting to complicated workarounds or deciding it’s not worth the effort.

These use-cases fall into a couple of distinct categories:

1. Trigger: Run a workflow on a certain interval. This interval is dynamic, or not supported by the platform natively. These are things like “every other day” or “every 3 weeks” or “increasingly frequent as we approach March 14th” or “5 times between now and August 28th” (where ‘now’ is the end contact’s signup date, for example).
2. Action: Run a downstream workflow or steps after this current step (post-trigger) at some calculated date or on some dynamically-determined schedule. Calculating these dates can be a nuisance or impossible if it’s something like “next Thursday”. The Summit response would also include the spread/delta between each timestamp so users could loop through the response and wait or sleep the correct number of hours/days before continuing to execute.

Conclusion: There’s a giant world of automations and workflows not being served by the default options of these platforms today.

<aside> 🤝 We’re starting with the trigger, as it’s the root cause for a lot of workarounds. The next step, based on market feedback, will be the Action. If you’re interested, let us know.

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Ideas & Inspiration

This new trigger gives Zapier experts, agencies, and novices the ability to automate business processes they either couldn’t before, or required extensive or tedious workarounds.