Enviar emails apenas em dias úteis send-emails-only-on-weekdays

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• TL;DR: This page provides a step-by-step use case for configuring a journey that sends emails only on weekdays by using a day-of-week condition and custom Wait formulas to delay weekend entries until Monday.

Intents:

• Configure a Condition activity to branch a journey based on the day of the week (Saturday, Sunday, or weekday)
• Write custom Wait expressions using toDateTimeOnly(setHours(nowWithDelta(X, "days"), H)) to delay weekend profiles until Monday
• Build a three-path journey that merges all paths into a single email action
• Test the weekday-only email logic using test profiles with different simulated entry days
• Publish and monitor a journey that suppresses weekend email delivery

Glossary:

• Time condition: A condition activity type in Journey Optimizer that branches journey paths based on date/time criteria such as day of the week (product-specific)
• nowWithDelta: An expression function that returns the current date/time offset by a specified number of days or other units (product-specific)
• setHours: An expression function that sets a specific hour on a given date/time value (product-specific)
• toDateTimeOnly: An expression function that converts a value to the dateTimeOnly format required by custom Wait activities (product-specific)

Guardrails:

• The time zone used for day-of-week evaluation is the journey’s configured timezone (set in journey properties), not the individual recipient’s timezone.
• An active email channel surface, and an audience or event to trigger the journey, are required to implement this use case.
• Basic understanding of journey conditions and the advanced expression editor is a prerequisite.
• Always test the journey in test mode before publishing to verify the Wait formulas produce the correct Monday delivery time.

Terminology:

• Canonical name: Day-of-week email scheduling — Acronym: none — variants: weekday-only emails, business-hours email delivery
• Synonyms: “Saturday path” / “Sunday path” = “weekend paths”; “other cases path” = “weekday path”
• Do not confuse: journey timezone (used for day-of-week evaluation) ≠ recipient’s local timezone

FAQ:

• Q: What formula delays a Saturday entry until Monday at 9 AM? — Use toDateTimeOnly(setHours(nowWithDelta(2, "days"), 9)) on the Saturday path (2 days forward lands on Monday).
• Q: What formula delays a Sunday entry until Monday at 9 AM? — Use toDateTimeOnly(setHours(nowWithDelta(1, "days"), 9)) on the Sunday path (1 day forward lands on Monday).
• Q: Which timezone is used when evaluating the day-of-week condition? — The journey’s configured timezone defined in journey properties; it is not the recipient’s local timezone.
• Q: Do weekday entries need a Wait activity? — No, profiles entering Monday through Friday proceed directly to the Email action activity without any wait.
• Q: How do I test that weekend entries are correctly queued? — In test mode, create test profiles with simulated Saturday and Sunday entry times and verify they follow the correct conditional path and receive the email on Monday at the configured hour.