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Overview

The Delay step pauses a workflow for a fixed amount of time before running the next step. This is useful for scenarios like adding jitter between requests to avoid hitting an integration’s rate limits, or waiting a few hours before sending a follow-up email. To add a Delay to your workflow, click the ”+” button in the Workflow Editor and choose Delay from the sidebar. Then, specify how long the workflow should wait before continuing.

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Configuring a Delay

A Delay step takes two parameters:
  • Value: how long to wait, as a number. This can be a static value or a dynamic variable referencing data from a previous step.
  • Unit: the unit of time for the value: Seconds, Minutes, Hours, or Days.
Note: When using Test Step or Test Workflow, Delay steps do not pause for the configured amount of time — they immediately continue the test execution.

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Viewing delayed executions

While a workflow execution is paused on a Delay step, it appears with a Waiting status on the Monitoring page. Once the delay elapses, execution resumes automatically with the next step in the workflow.

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Billing

Delay steps do not count as tasks. The maximum delay you can configure depends on your billing plan: