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How to Schedule Follow up SMS messages to Facebook Lead Ads?

  • 1 December 2023
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Hi I have a zap that sends out a instant SMS to Facebook lead via clicksend, my question is how do schedule follow up messages to these leads? ie day 1 day 2 etc I understand I can create a zap for each days meassage but I don't understand this Unix stuff? Allows a message to be scheduled. Time must be in Unix format e.g. 1462788759 How do do this? What do I put in that feild. Please help as I can't follow up with leads at the moment. Many thanks Alvin:)

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Troy Tessalone
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Hi @alindsay 

Good question.

Can you post screenshots with the Zap action step and field that you are trying to configure to give us more context?

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HI Troy, thanks for your reply give me 2 minutes going to send a screen shot

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Troy Tessalone
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@alindsay 

Try adding this Zap action: Formatter > Date/Time > Format

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in the schedule field ?

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Troy what would it look like to send sms one day later? ie Formatter > Date/Time > Format 1

Troy Tessalone
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@alindsay 

Formatter app: https://zapier.com/apps/formatter/help

Date/Time modifiers:

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
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Thank you so much Troy will check these out 👍

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