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Ready-made templates with Delay

Pre-configured flows with Delay, ready to activate in a few clicks.

PREMIUM
Gmail
Delay
Facebook Lead Ads

Send emails to new Facebook leads with scheduled delays between each message

Automate
PREMIUM
WhatsApp Business API
Delay
Shopify

Request post-purchase customer reviews via WhatsApp with scheduled delays

Automate
PREMIUM
Telegram Bot
Delay
Gmail
Kiwify

Engage new students with an automated onboarding sequence from course enrollment to community access

Automate
PREMIUM
Conta Azul
Delay
Asaas

Automatically mark Asaas payments as paid after the funds are settled

Automate
PREMIUM
Gmail
Kit de IA
Delay
Zendesk

Send AI-personalized customer satisfaction surveys by email after each Zendesk support interaction

Automate
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Delay in practice

How different teams use Delay in everyday automations.

Illustration of Delay being used in a Pluga automation

  • First email on sign-up day, reminder after 3 days, offer a week later: Delay blocks interleaved with actions build an entire nurture track inside a single flow.

    Build nurture tracks with Delay

  • Bank slip payments, document generation, delivery windows: some steps just aren't instant. Delay holds the flow to give the external process room before releasing the next action.

    Wait on processes with Delay

  • A hot lead gets immediate contact. A warm lead gets 2 days of nurture content first. Delay adjusts the wait time to each lead's profile, because the right moment to reach out changes with the temperature.

    Adjust timing with Delay

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Possibilities with Delay on Pluga

Available actions with Delay

The action is the task Pluga performs automatically on Delay, every time a trigger runs.

Delay

Wait

Waits for a set amount of time before continuing the automation

How it works:

Whenever something happens on the source app

1. Set up delays between multiple steps in a workflow

2. Allow time for a payment to clear or a document to be generated before sending notifications

3. Create communication and/or billing workflows with sequential wait times

All happening in a single automation! ✨

Premium Action
Delay

Wait

Waits for a set amount of time before continuing the automation

  • Set up delays between multiple steps in a workflow
  • Allow time for a payment to clear or a document to be generated before sending notifications
  • Create communication and/or billing workflows with sequential wait times
Gmail WhatsApp Business API Pipedrive Asaas

Time unit Required

Delay time amount Required

How it works

How to integrate with Delay

1. Trigger Source app When something happens…
2. Intermediate action Delay Wait
3. Action Target app Perform an action…
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Boost Delay with other workflow features

Combine multiple resources to build even smarter workflows with Delay.

Roteador

Roteador

Explore

The Router lets you create conditional paths within a single workflow. You define the criteria, and Pluga routes the execution to the right path based on the captured data.

Kit de IA

Kit de IA

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The AI Toolkit classifies, extracts data, summarizes, and translates the information flowing through your automations. You configure it, Pluga builds the prompt, and the result goes straight to the next step in your workflow.

Interruptor

Interruptor

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The Switch pauses the AI Agent as soon as a human joins the conversation, preventing duplicate or conflicting responses. Once you stop replying, the Agent automatically resumes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know to get started with Delay on Pluga.

  • With Pluga, you connect Delay to more than 131 apps to automate your business processes and tasks. When building or editing a flow, add Delay as an intermediate step wherever it makes sense for your process (including inside a Router route), and configure it right there.

  • Delay is included in Pluga's paid plans, with no separate charge per step. Each run of the Wait action consumes 1 event from your plan, like any other step in the flow. You can try every Pluga feature free for 7 days to build automations with Delay.

  • As many as your process needs. You can use Delay in as many automations as you want and, within the same flow, chain several Wait blocks in sequence (for example, to build a full nurture track). The limit that applies is your plan's: number of active automations and monthly event volume.

  • No. Pluga is a visual, intuitive platform, so you configure Delay right in the editor, with no code. Just set the amount of time and the unit (minutes, hours or days) and activate the automation. If you have any doubts along the way, Pluga support can help.

  • Delay takes your automations out of immediate execution and gives you control over timing: you decide when each step should run, not just what it does. This lets you build entire cadences in a single automation, and wait on external processes (payment settling, a document being generated) before the flow continues.

  • Yes. Delay is a native Pluga feature, built and maintained by our team. It works integrated with the entire app catalog, as an intermediate step in your flow, with no installation or external service needed.