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# Wait

> Add a delay within a workflow run before proceeding to the next step.

The **Wait** step lets you add a fixed time period between two steps. This is useful for scheduling follow-up actions, spacing out notifications, or waiting for some process to complete.
For instance, you could add a 3 day wait after a "user row inserted" trigger to send an email three days after a signup.

To add a **Wait** step, click the "+" placeholder node in the builder or the "+" button on any connection between two steps.
Then click "Wait step".

From there, you can specify a duration and unit of time for the run to wait before proceeding to the next step.

<Frame caption="Example: Wait for 1 day before proceeding to the next step.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/notikaai/k35ntJQ2S6c87rnB/images/wait.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=k35ntJQ2S6c87rnB&q=85&s=99ed3945a5290ca84fd2b048be377254" alt="Wait Example" width="3456" height="1982" data-path="images/wait.png" />
</Frame>

<Note>
  **Note:** The Wait step passes through the same input data to subsequent steps
  after the delay. It's designed solely to pause the workflow's execution
  without transforming the data.
</Note>

### Dynamic waits (coming soon)

Soon, you'll be able to add dynamic waits to your workflows: instead of using a fixed delay, you can set the wait
duration based on input data—for example, by running a SQL query to determine the wait time (e.g., "wait until 1
month before the expiry date"). This makes your scheduling even more flexible.

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