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title: Snoozing automations
description: Learn how to use the Snooze action in APIANT automations to delay execution for any duration, ideal for drip campaigns or timed workflows. Understand how snoozing differs from pausing, supports natural language durations, and allows manual wake or cancel options from history.
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# Snoozing automations

## Learn how to use the Snooze action in APIANT automations to delay execution for any duration, ideal for drip campaigns or timed workflows. Understand how snoozing differs from pausing, supports natural language durations, and allows manual wake or cancel options from history.

The system provides an action for snoozing an automation for any period of time. This can be useful for functionality like marketing drip campaigns, where emails are sent days or weeks apart.

**Note: "Snooze" functionality is different from "pause" functionality. While an automation is snoozed, it is not being executed on the server. It is dormant until the configured time to wake up, then the system executes the automation where it left off. A paused automation is still being executed on the server while it is paused (and may time out depending on any time out limits).**

The snooze action is found under the System Utility category:

![Document image](https://images.archbee.com/Y2QGD8otsIOv4e0hQQnqa/M1RgEOFWyt5dJ7RBNCrp__image.png?format=webp)

 

In the Date Time app:

![Document image](https://images.archbee.com/Y2QGD8otsIOv4e0hQQnqa/UuUikGW3xGxlp00oUOOen_image.png?format=webp)

 

![Document image](https://images.archbee.com/Y2QGD8otsIOv4e0hQQnqa/FteoBGVdzDDkzl7eebILo_image.png?format=webp)

 

Natural language is supported for the snooze duration value:

![Document image](https://images.archbee.com/Y2QGD8otsIOv4e0hQQnqa/kQ1H-Do4kO6S38XZdcrY7_image.png?format=webp)

 

While snoozed, individual data rows can be manually woken up early or cancelled via buttons in the automation's history:

![Document image](https://images.archbee.com/Y2QGD8otsIOv4e0hQQnqa/Zp1xMwylTGGBK-4WC8mzG_image.png?format=webp)

 

All data rows that are snoozed can be woken up early or cancelled at once by selecting the "snoozed" filter:

![Document image](https://images.archbee.com/Y2QGD8otsIOv4e0hQQnqa/10V8fRBQJ10-9IdXCRck4_image.png?format=webp)

 

Similarly, from the top-level history all snoozed transactions can be woken up early or cancelled by selecting the "snoozed" filter then clicking this button:

![Document image](https://images.archbee.com/Y2QGD8otsIOv4e0hQQnqa/475mxoLCMzHlLEK-oxWjr_image.png?format=webp)

 

When an automation is woken up early, it continues its processing after the snooze action.

When a snooze is cancelled, the automation does not continue its processing.

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