monday.com date & time automations
monday's date automations run at one fixed hour for every item. These guides cover what you can do natively, the workarounds, and how to fire at the exact time in your column.
How-to guides
- Trigger an automation X hours before a deadline2 hours, 30 minutes or 2 weeks before each item's own date and time.
- Subitem reminders, hours before the dateEach subitem alerted on its own time, kept in sync when it moves.
- Meeting reminders 15 minutes before the callCalls, demos, interviews and appointments tracked on a board.
- Send a notification at an exact timeNotify the person in a People column at the minute it's due.
- Auto-change a status on a specific date and timeFlip a status at the hour in the column, not at a fixed hour.
- Send a webhook when a date arrivesPOST to Make, Zapier or your API at the scheduled minute.
- Slack notification at a specific timeFrom a monday date column to a Slack channel.
- Recurring automations at a specific timeA workaround: a date column that moves itself forward each time.
Why it happens
- monday.com automation not firing on time?The fixed-hour behaviour of "when date arrives", explained.
- 5 monday.com automation limitations and workaroundsTiming, conditions, webhooks, retries and logs.
- Timing calculatorSee when your native automation will actually fire.
Comparisons
- Advanced Time Triggers vs Precise TriggersTwo apps for date-and-time automations, compared honestly.
- Native vs Zapier vs Precise TriggersExact-time automations on a date column, three ways.
- monday.com vs Zapier vs Make vs n8nPrecision, setup and cost for date-based automations.
- monday.com vs Zapier: cost and precisionWhat per-task pricing means for date triggers.