Time-based engagement journey

Use a Time-Based Engagement Journey to engage users on a schedule. Send personalized messages at a defined date, time, or recurring frequency.

This example sends personalized weekly highlights. Adapt the pattern for other scheduled campaigns.

This journey runs weekly, checks previous engagement, and follows up through several channels.

Common use cases

1. Personalized Weekly Highlights: Users receive a weekly recap or personalized content recommendations based on their interests and recent activity. The journey runs on a predictable schedule, such as every Monday morning, and helps keep users engaged with relevant updates, offers, or content.

2. Birthday Campaigns: Users receive a special birthday message, discount, gift, or loyalty reward on their birthday. The journey can be scheduled to run daily and target users whose birthday matches the current date.

3. Monthly Offers or Newsletters: Users receive recurring monthly promotions, product updates, newsletters, or campaign announcements. This type of journey is useful for brands that want to maintain regular communication with their audience.

4. Seasonal or Holiday Campaigns: Users are targeted during specific periods such as New Year’s Day, Black Friday, Mother’s Day, Ramadan, summer campaigns, or back-to-school season. The journey starts and ends within a defined date range.

5. Subscription Renewal Reminder: Users receive reminders before their subscription, membership, insurance policy, or service package expires. The journey can send messages a few days before the renewal date and follow up if the user has not renewed.

Configuration overview

1

Set journey details and conversion event

Define the journey name, description, and the conversion goal you want to track.

2

Set the engagement window

Set the days and hours when messages can be delivered, and decide whether time-sensitive messages can be sent outside the engagement window.

3

Configure entry rules

Choose the schedule, frequency, and timezone behavior for journey entry.

4

Set eligibility options

Control how often users can re-enter the journey. Use Lock Duration to define how long users must wait before re-entering, and Entry Capping to limit the maximum number of entries.

5

Select an audience

Choose which users are eligible to enter the journey. Select a segment to target specific users that can engage better with the message you're sending. If no segment is selected, all users are included.

6

Build the flow

Add the event checks, branches, messages, and exit paths for the weekly highlights experience.

7

Review and launch

Verify the setup, then save the journey as a draft or launch it.

Example journey flow

Users enter this journey every week. It then checks whether they engaged with the previous recap.

• Engaged users receive weekly highlights, recommendations, and follow-up content.

• Unengaged users receive a lighter reminder and can have their profile updated.

• The journey repeats on the configured weekly schedule.

The weekly highlights journey branches based on prior engagement.

Step 1: Set journey details and conversion event

Enter a descriptive name for your journey. This helps you identify the journey later.

Provide a brief description that explains the purpose or goal of the journey.

Next, define the conversion event for this journey. Since this example focuses on encouraging users to open the app, select Open App as the conversion event.

To configure the conversion event:

1. From the Conversion Event dropdown, select Open App.

2. Enable Select Conversion Event Property.

3. Select the event property you want to use for conversion tracking.

For this example, select UTM Campaign as the property, choose Equals as the operator, and enter weekly_highlights as the value.

Set a conversion period to define how long users will be counted toward the conversion event after exiting the journey. For this example, set the conversion period to 7 days.

Step 2: Configure the engagement window

In the Entry Rules step, enable Engagement Window to define when journey messages can be sent.

For this example, the journey sends weekly highlights to users. Since these messages are not time-critical, it is better to deliver them during regular engagement hours.

Set the allowed sending time between 09:00 and 18:00, and select weekdays from Monday to Friday.

Keep Ignore messages sent outside Engagement Window disabled. If a message is triggered outside the selected time range, it will be held and delivered when the Engagement Window becomes active.

Step 3: Configure time-based entry rules

Next, choose how users should enter the journey.

For this example, select Enter users at an optimal time. Since the journey is designed to send personalized highlights on a weekly schedule, users should enter the journey at a planned time instead of entering immediately when they become eligible.

This allows you to control when the weekly highlights journey starts and ensures that users receive the communication at a consistent time each week.

Set the Frequency Type to Weekly.

For this example, set the frequency to 1 and select Monday as the day of the week. This allows the journey to run once every week and send personalized highlights at a consistent time.

Keep Use User’s Timezone enabled if you want each user to receive the message according to their local time.

Step 4: Configure eligibility options

In the Eligibility Options section, define how often users can enter the journey.

For this example, select Multiple Times. Since the journey sends weekly highlights, users should be able to enter the journey again in future weeks.

Set a Lock Duration to prevent users from entering the same journey too frequently. For example, you can set the lock duration to 7 days so that each user can enter the journey once per week.

You can leave Entry Capping empty unless you want to limit the total number of times a user can enter this journey.

Step 5: Select the entry audience

In the Audience step, select the users who are eligible to enter the journey.

For this example, select Active user for 7 days. This allows you to target users who have recently interacted with your app and are more likely to engage with weekly personalized highlights.

To target all users, skip this step and do not select a segment.

Step 6: Build the journey flow

Journey starting point

The journey starts on its configured schedule, not from a user action.

Review the starting configuration:

• Trigger type: Time-Based

• Eligibility type: Multiple

• Audience: Active user for 7 days

• Schedule: Beginning on 25/06/2026 at 13:25

Users can enter multiple times on the defined schedule. The selected audience includes users active within the last seven days.

Check the previous weekly recap

After users enter the journey based on the Time-Based trigger, the system checks whether they engaged with the Previous Weekly Recap event.

This check creates two paths.

On Performed

For users who have already shown interest in the previous weekly recap, send an email about the next personalized weekly highlights.

Your weekly highlights are ready.

On Timed Out

For users who did not interact with the previous recap within the expected time, send a follow-up message with a lighter reminder or a different content angle.

We picked a few things you might like.

Continue each path

After the previous recap engagement check, continue each path with the appropriate follow-up messages.

On Performed path

Users who engaged with the previous weekly recap continue through the main flow. In this example, they receive:

• An email with the next weekly highlights

• A push notification with personalized recommendations

• An in-app message that guides them to explore weekly content

Example messages:

• “Your weekly highlights are ready.”

• “Your recommendations are here.”

• “Explore your weekly content.”

On Timed Out path

Users who did not engage with the previous recap receive a lighter re-engagement message. You can also update their profile to use this information in future segmentation or campaigns.

Example message:

• “We picked a few things you might like.”

Example profile update:

• “Weekly recap not engaged.”

Check whether the recommendation was clicked

After users receive the weekly highlights and recommendations, the journey checks whether they clicked the recommendation.

On Performed

If the user clicks the recommendation, they continue to the On_Performed path and can receive additional personalized content.

Example in-app message:

Based on what you viewed, here are more suggestions for you.

On Timed Out

If the user does not click the recommendation, they continue to the On_Timed_Out path. In this example, the profile is updated to indicate that the weekly recap was not engaged with.

Exit points

An Exit Point marks where a user’s journey ends. In this example, the journey can end in two ways:

Completion of the expected action

The journey can end when users complete the expected engagement action, such as interacting with the weekly recap or clicking a recommendation.

If a user engages with the weekly recap and clicks a recommendation, the journey can be considered successful and no further follow-up is needed.

End of follow-up attempts

The journey can also end when users do not engage after the follow-up messages are completed.

If a user receives the weekly recap, follow-up push, or in-app message but still does not interact, the journey ends after the final step. The user profile can be updated to reflect that the weekly recap was not engaged with.

Any path with no additional steps becomes an exit point. This prevents the journey from continuing indefinitely and helps you analyze where users drop off.

Step 7: Review and launch

Before launching the journey, review the main configuration areas:

• Setup: Journey name, description, conversion event, and conversion filters

• Entry Rules: Time-based entry logic, schedule, frequency, and engagement window

• Audience: Selected segments or all-user targeting

• Build: Journey steps, event checks, branches, messages, and exit paths

If the journey setup is still changing, save it as a draft and return later.

Launch options

Save & Launch

Use Save & Launch when the journey is ready to go live. This saves your latest changes and activates the journey.

Save

Use Save when you want to keep the current setup as a draft. This is useful if the journey still needs review, testing, or approval.

Navigation behavior

Back

Use Back to return to the previous step. Your existing work in the Build step remains available while you continue editing.

Back to Journey List

Use Back to Journey List to leave the journey creation flow and return to the journey listing page. If you leave without saving, your latest changes are not kept.

You can now launch your journey and start engaging users on a planned schedule with personalized weekly highlights or recurring updates.