# Delivery settings Decide when a campaign goes out and how fast — send now or schedule a date and time, set the delivery speed, and optionally send at each contact's local time. **Language:** en **Audience:** platform **TLDR:** On Review & schedule you check the preview, the campaign details and the estimated cost, then decide the send: Send now, or Schedule a date and time (at least 5 minutes in the future), with adjustable delivery speed and an option to send at each contact's local time. Nothing sends until you confirm on this step; if your balance does not cover the cost, the order summary warns you. **Translation key:** platform.campaigns.delivery-settings **Search keywords:** delivery settings, schedule a campaign, send now, send later, scheduled send, send time, date and time, delivery speed, send speed, throttle, drip, local time, recipient local time, timezone, when to send, review campaign, confirm and send **Related pages:** /platform/es/campaigns/delivery-settings, /platform/en/campaigns, /platform/en/campaigns/creating-a-campaign, /platform/en/campaigns/managing-campaigns **Docs index (every page):** https://docs.instasent.com/llms.txt **This zone's index:** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/llms.txt **This page:** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/campaigns/delivery-settings/ (HTML) · https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/campaigns/delivery-settings.md (Markdown) **Other language (es):** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/es/campaigns/delivery-settings.md The last step of the campaign builder is **Review & schedule**. You check what you're about to send — the message preview, the campaign details and the estimated cost — and only then choose **when** the campaign goes out and **how fast**. Nothing is sent until you confirm it here. ## Review the campaign The **Review & schedule** step lays out everything the campaign will send, so you can catch a mistake before it goes out: - A **message preview** — sample recipients with their country and how many SMS parts each message uses. - The **campaign details** — sender, included and excluded audience, and consent policy. - The **order summary** — recipient count, cost per message and the **estimated cost**. If your balance is too low to cover it, you'll see a warning here. When the preview looks right, open the delivery options with **Schedule or send**. This opens a panel where you set the timing and speed and then confirm. ## Send now or schedule At the top of the panel, choose how the campaign goes out: - **Send now** — *"Campaign will be sent immediately to all recipients."* Delivery begins as soon as you confirm. - **Schedule campaign** — *"Select a date and time to send your campaign."* Shortcuts jump you to *in 1 hour* or *in 2 hours*, or pick any slot on the calendar. A scheduled send has to be at least **5 minutes** in the future, and how far ahead you can schedule depends on your plan. Times use your account's timezone — unless you turn on local-time sending, below. ## Delivery speed The **Delivery speed limit** controls how quickly messages leave once the campaign starts. The default — **As quick as possible** — sends them at full speed; the other options (from *At least 10 minutes* up to *At least 6 hours*) spread the send over a longer window. Slowing the send down is useful when a sudden wave of traffic to your site or call centre would be hard to handle — the responses arrive more gradually. For very large audiences a minimum spread may apply, so the fastest options aren't always available. > **Note**: A slower speed only changes *when* each message is sent, not the total cost. Your > balance is drawn down as the messages are processed, so a faster send completes the > charge sooner. ## Send at the recipient's local time Turn on **Send at recipients' local time** and Instasent sends each contact their message at the chosen clock time *in their own timezone* — so 10:00 means 10:00 for a contact in Spain and 10:00 for one in Mexico. The timezone comes from the contact's own timezone, or their country if that's not set. This toggle appears once you choose **Schedule campaign** (it works with a scheduled send, not an immediate one), and it's a higher-plan feature. Instasent spreads delivery across timezones automatically. ## Confirm The button at the bottom of the panel confirms the campaign — its label matches the choice you made above: - **Confirm and send now** — for an immediate send. - **Schedule campaign** — for a scheduled one. Clicking **Confirm and send now** is already the final confirmation: the campaign moves into **preparation** and the send begins once that finishes. If you chose a future date, it goes into preparation first and, when that's done, sits in **Scheduled** until the selected date. The stages — **Preparing → Scheduled → Sending** — are explained in the [Campaigns overview](/platform/en/campaigns). Editing or cancelling a scheduled campaign afterwards is covered in [Managing campaigns](/platform/en/campaigns/managing-campaigns). ![The Review and schedule step: a per-recipient message preview on the left, campaign details and order summary on the right showing senders, audience, consent policy and the estimated cost](/platform/en/campaigns/images/delivery-settings--2-review.png) *The Review and schedule step — message preview, campaign details and order summary with the estimated cost.* ![The schedule sheet: send now or schedule, date and time, local-time toggle and delivery speed](/platform/en/campaigns/images/delivery-settings--1-schedule-sheet.png) *Choosing when and how fast a campaign sends.* --- This is one page of the Instasent documentation. For the complete machine-readable index of every guide and API reference, fetch https://docs.instasent.com/llms.txt — start there for full context.