# Bulk Notifications

https://docs.wisecp.com/es/bulk-notifications

Keep your bulk e-mail and SMS drafts in one place, and book the ones that should go out on their own.

## Opening the Screen

Panel menu: **Clients**, then **Marketing**, then **Bulk Notifications**: `{admin}/tools/bulk-notification`

The screen opens on **Drafts**. The address carries the tab: `{admin}/tools/bulk-notification?tab=scheduled-tasks`

## What Is on the Screen

Two tabs, a list in each.

- **Drafts**: The messages you have prepared. Columns: **Draft Name**, **Type**, **Recipients**, **Created** and **Last Sent**. **Recipients** names the audience, Client or Staff Member, and never a count. **Last Sent** stays empty here: only a scheduled task run fills it, and **Send Now** never does.
- **Scheduled Tasks**: Drafts booked for a date. Columns: **Task Name**, **Period**, **Frequency**, **Scheduled Date**, **Last Execution** and **Status**.

A task is **Active** or **Paused**. In both lists the name links to the editor, and the three-dot menu at the end of a row holds **Edit** and **Delete**.

**Create Draft** opens the new draft form. **Create Task** opens the **Schedule New Task** window over the list.

## Fields

### Apply to Selected

Tick the rows first, then pick an action. Each tab has its own box.

- **Apply to Selected, on Drafts**: Offers **Delete**. It asks for your panel password.
- **Apply to Selected, on Scheduled Tasks**: Offers **Pause**, **Resume** and **Delete**. Only **Delete** asks for your password.

### Schedule New Task

- **Select Draft**: Required. Lists drafts only, and you cannot swap it after saving.
- **Period**: **One-time**, the default, or **Recurring**. Your choice decides what the next row offers.
- **Sending Time**: One-time only. A single date and clock time, required.
- **Month box**: Recurring only. Starts on **Every Month**.
- **Day box**: Recurring only. Starts on **Every Day**.
- **Clock box**: Recurring only, and required. It sets the hour of every run.

**Save Task** opens once a draft and a time are set.

## Tasks

### Book a draft for a date

1. Open **Scheduled Tasks** and click the **Create Task** button.
2. Choose the draft, the period and the time.
3. Click the **Save Task** button. The task joins the list as **Active**.

### Change when a task goes out

1. Open the three-dot menu on the task row and choose **Edit**.
2. Set the new period and time. The draft behind it is untouched.
3. Click the **Save Task** button while it is still on. The **Scheduled Date** column follows.

### Pause a task for a while

1. Tick the rows and choose **Pause** under **Apply to Selected**.
2. Confirm. The rows turn **Paused** and send nothing.
3. **Resume** starts a recurring task again at its next scheduled time. A one-time task whose moment has passed goes out on the next automation run.

## Things to Watch

> **A task holds its own copy of the draft**
> 
> Booking a task copies the draft as it stands at that moment. Later edits to the draft never reach the task. To change what a booked task sends, open the task by its name and edit it there.

> **Editing a task's timing is limited**
> 
> In the edit window the **Save Task** button switches off as soon as you change the period or a time box. Only the month and day boxes leave it on. To move a task to another time, delete it and book the draft again.

> **Deleting cannot be undone**
> 
> Deleting a draft or a task removes it and its send history for good. Deleting a task does not delete the draft it came from, and deleting a draft leaves its tasks in place.

> **A time in the past goes out at the next automation run**
> 
> A one-time task whose moment has already passed is picked up on the next run of the automation instead of waiting. Set the date carefully, and pause the task if you need time to think.

## Required Privileges

The screen and every action on it need `TOOLS_BULK_MAIL` or `TOOLS_BULK_SMS`. Without one of them the menu entry stays hidden.

## Related Articles

- [Creating a Bulk Notification](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/creating-a-bulk-notification)
- [Bulk Notification Detail](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/bulk-notification-detail)
- [Notification Queue](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/notification-delivery-queue)
- [Email Logs](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/email-logs)