---
title: Schedule an announcement
sidebarTitle: Schedule an announcement
description: >-
  Write your announcement now and have it go out at the time you choose, with
  the option to cancel before it goes.
audience: luminary
feature: announcements
type: guide
availability: live
last_verified: '2026-10-13'
keywords:
  - schedule announcement
  - send later
  - scheduled email
  - cancel scheduled email
  - timed newsletter
  - schedule send
url: 'https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/audience/schedule-an-announcement'
---

# Schedule an announcement

> Write your announcement now and have it go out at the time you choose, with the option to cancel before it goes.

Write today, send later. A scheduled announcement reaches your chosen audience at the date and time you set, and appears on your portal at the same moment.

## When to use this

- You want a launch email to land at 9am on launch day.
- You want to write a batch of updates in one sitting.
- You want a reminder to go out the day before an offer ends.

**Note:** 
What you schedule is the broadcast. Until its send time, a published announcement with a scheduled
broadcast is hidden from your audience: it isn't on your portal and its link doesn't open for
them. At the send time it appears on your portal and the emails go out together.

**Step 1: Write the announcement**

Go to [Audience → Announcements](https://portal.bringsoul.life/announcement), click Create New,
and write your title and post.

**Step 2: Choose who's notified**

Keep Notify members on and choose your audiences under Send to.

**Step 3: Pick the time**

Choose Scheduled and set the date and time fields to when you want it to go out. They start at
roughly the current time, so always change them.

**Step 4: Preview and publish**

Click Preview to send yourself a test, then Publish. In *"Ready to publish?"* check Scheduled is
still selected and the date and time are right, then click Publish & Notify.

**Step 5: Check it's queued**

On the announcements list, the card shows Sends [date]. Open it: the Broadcast panel shows
Scheduled, the send time and the recipient sources.

## Change or cancel

### Cancel

Open the announcement and click Cancel Broadcast on the Broadcast panel. You'll see _"Broadcast cancelled successfully"_. Nobody is emailed, and the announcement stays published. Without a scheduled broadcast it's visible on your portal straight away, so set it to Unlisted or move it back to a draft first if it isn't ready to be seen. Once the panel shows Sending or Sent, it can't be cancelled.

### Change the time, audience or words

The editor doesn't remember the audience and time you chose before. Saving always replaces the broadcast with what's in the publish dialog:

**Step 1: Open the editor**

Open the announcement and click Edit. Make your changes to the words if needed.

**Step 2: Save**

Click Save Changes. In the dialog, keep Notify members on, choose Scheduled, set the date and
time, and pick the audiences again under Send to.

**Step 3: Confirm**

Click Save & Notify. The card shows the new Sends [date].

**Warning:** 
Clicking Save without notifying on a scheduled announcement removes its broadcast. Nobody will be
emailed, and the post becomes visible on your portal immediately.

## Tips

- Times are in your own time zone, as your device shows it.
- A time that has already passed sends straight away.
- You can't save a draft with notifications on. Scheduling needs the post to be published, and it stays hidden until the send time.
- Read it once more the day before. A scheduled broadcast goes out exactly as the post reads at that moment.

## What your audience sees

Nothing until the scheduled time. Then the email (or text) arrives and the post appears in Community Notes on your portal, just like an immediate send.

## Related

- [Announcements](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/audience/announcements)
- [Edit, unpublish or delete an announcement](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/audience/announcements/edit-unpublish-or-delete)
- [Track a broadcast](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/audience/announcements/track-a-broadcast)
- [Email Settings](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/settings/email-settings)