Start with a trigger
Select a trigger that sets your workflow in motion.
This could be anything from a new order in your Shopify store to a customer signing up for your newsletter.
Triggers are the starting points that tell MESA when to act.
Integrate Delay
MESA is the most approachable way to integrate Delay into workflows that automate your work with less effort.
Connect Delay to popular apps
Automate Delay in less clicks.
Personalize workflows with built-in apps
Leverage MESA's built-in tools to personalize any automation.
Start from customizable templates
MESA includes pre-made Delay workflow templates to get you started quickly.
Or, build your own Delay workflow
Making workflows is easy. Triggers start a workflow then, actions occur when it's running. Read more Delay docs in our knowledge base.
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Popular use cases for automating Delay
Connecting Delay into workflows helps you get more done in less time.
Enhanced Timing Control
By integrating Delay with your Shopify store, you can precisely time various automated processes such as order confirmations, follow-up emails, or inventory updates. This allows for more thoughtful engagement with customers and avoids overwhelming them with immediate, back-to-back notifications.
Staggered Task Distribution
By implementing delays between automated tasks, you can distribute workloads more evenly over time. This prevents system overloads and ensures that tasks are processed smoothly. This means less manual monitoring and intervention, enabling them to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Resource Optimization
With the ability to define delays in automation, you can better align your workflows with business hours or peak activity times. For example, delaying certain non-essential updates or processes during peak sales hours can ensure that resources are focused on priority tasks, enhancing overall efficiency.
Strategic Marketing Automation
Delay enables you to set specific time intervals between marketing communications. This could include scheduling a series of welcome emails, promotional messages, or abandoned cart reminders, fostering a more personalized and effective marketing strategy.
Improved Customer Experience
By creating deliberate pauses between different steps of an interaction, you present information to customers in a more digestible manner. For example, providing a delay between an order confirmation and a request for feedback ensures that customers have time to assess their interaction, leading to more accurate and positive reviews.
Expert Workflow Setup
Need help crafting the perfect automation? We offer worflow setup services to help you add automation into your work more quickly. Request a custom workflow.
Automate your work in less clicks
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Step 1.
Step 2.
Add an action
Next, choose the action that should follow the trigger.
Actions are the tasks that MESA will perform automatically, such as sending a confirmation email or updating your product inventory.
Linking actions to triggers is how you build a seamless workflow process.
Step 3.
Personalize
Make your workflow even more flexible using built-in apps.
Customize your automation with tools that match your specific needs, whether it's scheduling theme changes or syncing with your CRM.
Personalization ensures your workflows fit your unique business requirements.
All set!
You just made a workflow
Finally, enable your workflow. You've just automated a task that will save you time and reduce manual effort.
With MESA, complex processes become simple, freeing you up to focus on what matters most—growing your business.
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