Sending message to 500 contacts

How To
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Hi all!

I fairly new with Make.com

What i have is a Google Sheet with aprox. 500 contacts. I’ve made a scenario to send a Reminder message via WhatsApp using Whapi.com.

My scenario is composed of:

  1. Search Rows (Google sheets) to grab the phone number
  2. Send text message on WhatsApp to all entries that have Status: To be sent
  3. Sleep - 20 sec (to avoid WP block)
  4. Update Status Cell with: Message sent
  5. Sleep - 10 sec

Might not be the best scenario, and if anyone has any suggestions on how it can improve i thank you in advance.

I have a PRO subscription so execution time limit is 40 min. Sending one message take about 35 sec, that mean i would need to run the scenario for about 5 hours.

I don’t really know how i can make this work so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Andrei

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Hey Andrey,

have the scenario run in chunks. Configure the Search module to grab only enough entries so it doesn’t time out. Then as the final module have the scenario retrigger it self.

This way it will run and process say 20 entries, then keep restarting it self until there are no more entries to process.

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Hi. Thanks for your answer.

Can you please tell me what module are you referring to when you say: “Then as the final module have the scenario retrigger it self.”

Thanks!

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Depends on how your scenario is started normally.

You can try with the new Make module to start a scenario or the old school way - have your first module be a webhook and call it with an HTTP call module.