Buttondown Documentation
Can Buttondown see the future? Sadly, no. But we do know one thing for certain: you can schedule newsletter emails to send at the exact date and time you wish. To learn more about how you can schedule and send your email, keep reading.
To schedule an email to send in the future, you need:
If you don't have those two things ready, read the docs linked above and come back to this page when you're ready.
Do you want to send your email to your entire subscriber base, or only to a specific segment of your subscriber base? If it’s the latter, this is where tags come in handy.
Let’s say that you’ve assigned tags according to how subscribers signed up for your email, and that you only want to send this particular email to subscribers who signed up through Linktree. Here's how:
This video shows how to choose tags for an email draft.
Choose as many tags as you like! Your email will be sent to all subscribers associated with those tags.
If you schedule your email to send days or weeks later and before it sends, new subscribers sign up and are given the tags you chose to receive the scheduled email, that email will also go out to those new subscribers.
Buttondown can schedule your email to send whenever you like, as long as it’s in the future. To set a specific date and time:
A quick note about timezones: when you schedule an email, make sure that your time zone reflects the time zone you are in as well as the time when you want to send the email. Scheduling an email to send at 9am Pacific Time will send it at 12pm (noon) Eastern Time.
This video shows how to schedule a future delivery date and time for your email.
You’re almost there! Only one more step, which is…
Before you close your email draft, you must click Send to save your changes. Clicking Send will not deliver your newsletter email to your subscribers before the date and time you've scheduled. Buttondown will send it at the time you specified, but it needs to get the official go-ahead from you, which you do by clicking Send!
After you click Send, a congratulatory pop-up appears with buttons to share your newsletter on social media or with a copy-and-paste-able URL.
This video shows a pop-up appearing to confirm your scheduled email.
You did it! Now you won’t need to see the future to know that your email will be sent and published, exactly how you scheduled it.