# Automate a follow up email

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/automate-a-follow-up-email/71895>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [March 21, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automate-a-follow-up-email/71895 "2024-03-21T13:56:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lewis\_Parker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/lewis_parker/32/91147_2.png) [@Lewis\_Parker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lewis_Parker)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automate-a-follow-up-email/71895/1 "2024-03-21T13:56:42Z")

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Hellooo!

I have an action set up that sends an email to the user after they click a button

I want to schedule a follow up email for 24 hours time that discusses the same row data.

Is this possible?

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automate-a-follow-up-email/71895/2 "2024-03-21T22:51:28Z")

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Right now actions, such as sending an email, cannot be scheduled. Though actions need to be triggered by a user, this might change soon.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automate-a-follow-up-email/71895/3 "2024-03-22T00:24:28Z")

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Even if you have your data in Google Sheets, you would have to run an automation with a 3rd party solution every minute/hour to check for rows that have crossed the 24-hour threshold to send the email. That would be expensive.

Glide is working on time-based actions, but we don’t know when it would be released.

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**Author:** ![bman737](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@bman737](https://community.glideapps.com/u/bman737)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automate-a-follow-up-email/71895/4 "2024-03-22T01:16:13Z")

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Couldn’t you just set a row with the date of first e-mail, add 24 hours to that date and have Sheets run a send email function when it matches that condition?