💡FEATURE REQUEST: Schedule Send Communications

Question

When I’m ready to send an estimate or invoice, Jobber makes it easy to send directly to the customer. The issue is timing.

I often finish admin work outside normal business hours because I’m in the field during the day. When I send estimates/invoices late at night, it can feel unprofessional (or at minimum, it triggers customer replies at weird times).

Current workaround: I send the estimate/invoice to myself, then schedule send it to the customer later during business hours. Phones make this easy. It works, but it’s extra steps.

Feature request: Add a “Schedule Send” option when sending estimates and invoices, similar to email scheduling.

Ideal behavior:

At send time, give options: Send now / Schedule send
For schedule: choose date + time (and time zone handling)
Queue it and show status like Scheduled / Sent / Failed
Allow cancel/edit of scheduled sends

This would save time, reduce mistakes, and keep customer communications going out at appropriate times without requiring a workaround.

tbarth · Answer

That would be a cool feature for sure.&nbsp; I think it would be hard to add though, as it would probably require a lot of back-end work to add the required pieces.&nbsp; Automations might easier if they can do a trigger &gt; delay &gt; send message flow, that might be a way to do something at least similar without rebuilding the whole messaging system.The only workaround I can think of is pushing it to a third party, which adds more complexity than your current workflow has.&nbsp;&nbsp;For what it's worth, if someone replied at an odd hour, I don't think they'd expect a reply from you outside of normal hours.&nbsp; &nbsp;Not trying to invalidate the concern; it's just not something I'd thought about before now. You make a good point.&nbsp;

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