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Quiet Hours

Enable Quiet Hours to Ensure Proper Messaging Timing

Written by Joshua Smith

Quiet Hours in Salesmsg allows you to control when messages and calls are sent across inboxes, workflows, broadcasts, agents, and calling tools.

This includes features such as workflows, broadcasts, agents, campaigns, Power Dialer calls, and third-party automations.

Once enabled, messages and calls are paused during off-hours and resume when the next allowed sending window begins. This helps ensure outreach happens at the appropriate time and respects your contacts' availability.

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Where to Configure Quiet Hours

Quiet Hours are set once at the organization level in Profile → Settings → Organization. Once configured, they apply across Salesmsg:

  • Manual messages

  • Workflows and broadcasts

  • AI agents

  • Campaigns

  • Third-party automations

Workflows, broadcasts, and campaigns include their own toggle so you can choose whether each one respects Quiet Hours. The AI Agent does not have a separate Quiet Hours setting — it follows the organization's Quiet Hours automatically.


Enabling Quiet Hours

Enabling Quiet Hours for an inbox ensures that all messages and calls sent manually respect the designated off-hours. This prevents sending outreach at inappropriate times, improving customer experience and reducing complaints.

Steps to Enable

  1. Go to Profile → Settings → Organization

  2. Choose a scheduling mode:

    • Everyday: one window applies to all 7 days

    • Weekdays: one window applies Monday–Friday, and Saturday and Sunday are fully blocked

    • Custom: set independent windows for Weekdays, Saturday, and Sunday

  3. Save your changes.

In Custom mode, unchecking any of the three groups (Weekdays, Saturday, Sunday) fully blocks sending for that group, and at least one group must remain checked.

When Custom mode is active, the configured schedule is shown wherever "Enable Quiet Hours" appears — as a tooltip in Broadcast create/edit, and as inline text below the toggle in Campaign Settings and Workflow Settings.


Choosing a Quiet Hours mode

Quiet Hours now supports three modes, so you can match your sending windows to your organization's needs, including state-specific regulations that treat weekends differently.

Go to Settings → Organization → General and open the Quiet Hours settings to choose a mode.

Everyday

One sending window applies to all 7 days of the week. This is the simplest setup if your quiet hours don't need to change based on the day.

Weekdays

One sending window applies Monday through Friday. Saturday and Sunday are fully blocked, with no sending or calling on those days.

Custom

Set independent windows for three groups: Weekdays, Saturday, and Sunday. This is the option to use if you need different hours on different days, for example to meet a state law that allows messaging later on Sundays than the rest of the week.

In Custom mode:

  • Uncheck any group to block it entirely. No messages or calls go out on those days.

  • At least one group must stay checked. If you try to block all three, you'll see an error and won't be able to save.

If you had quiet hours set up before this update, your settings carried over automatically. If weekends were blocked, you're now in Weekdays mode with the same hours.

NOTE: If they weren't, you're in Everyday mode with the same hours applied across all 7 days. Nothing needs to be re-entered.


Viewing Contact Time Zones

When the contact is outside of Working Hours and Quiet Hours are enabled, each conversation shows the contact's local time zone and current day and time.

This gives your team immediate context before sending messages or making calls, helping avoid outreach at inconvenient times.

A contact's time zone comes from one of three sources: a value set manually on the contact record, a value synced from a connected HubSpot account's Timezone property, or, when neither is set, an estimate based on the contact's phone number area code. Updating a contact in HubSpot syncs its time zone to Salesmsg. Setting a contact's time zone manually in Salesmsg pushes that value to HubSpot's Timezone property when HubSpot is connected.


Messaging Quiet Hours

When crafting and Scheduling a Message during quiet hours for a customer you will be prompted to cancel the message or schedule the message for later, or you have the option to override and send anyways.


Workflow & Broadcast Quiet Hours

Workflows and broadcasts can be configured to respect the organization's Quiet Hours. When enabled, automated messages are paused during off-hours and resume when the next allowed sending window begins.

By default when quiet hours are enabled the workflow does not have Quiet Hours enabled.

Steps to Enable:

  1. Open the Workflow or Broadcast you want to edit.

  2. Go to Scheduling or Sending Settings.

  3. Toggle Enable Quiet Hours.

  4. Save your changes.


Agent Quiet Hours

The AI Agent does not have its own separate Quiet Hours setting. There is no per-agent toggle to turn Quiet Hours on or off — the agent automatically follows the organization's Quiet Hours schedule.

When organization-level Quiet Hours are enabled:

  • Messages sent because a contact was enrolled (for example by tag or manual enrollment) and the agent's follow-up messages are held during Quiet Hours and sent once the next allowed window begins.

  • Replies the agent sends in response to an inbound message from the contact are always sent, even during Quiet Hours, so conversations a contact starts aren't left waiting.

Messages held for Quiet Hours appear as gray messages scheduled for the next allowed time. If you disable or delete the AI Agent, any of its messages currently held for Quiet Hours are removed automatically.


Keeping Track of your Scheduled Quiet Hours Automations

When you schedule automations such as agents, workflows, broadcasts, and other sending tools, you can keep track of what sending activity remains and what has been scheduled.


Power Dialer & Call Flow Quiet Hours

Power Dialer and Call Flow follow the organization's Quiet Hours rules for calls.

If a contact falls within Quiet Hours, the user is notified.

The user can then decide whether to skip the call. Calls are not skipped automatically.


Quiet Hours on the iOS App

Quiet Hours are configured only in the web app; opening Quiet Hours settings from the iOS app takes you to your browser to make changes.

On the iOS app, a dismissible banner appears above the message box when a contact is currently in their Quiet Hours window. Group conversations always ignore Quiet Hours.

If you try to send a message to a contact in Quiet Hours from the iOS app, a warning modal lets you send it anyway or schedule it for the next allowed time; scheduled messages appear as gray messages in the thread that you can remove. If you try to call a contact in Quiet Hours from the iOS app, a warning modal lets you call anyway or cancel.

The warning modal appears once per app session for a given conversation, and appears again after restarting the app or reopening the conversation.


Frequently Asked Questions

Can I apply Quiet Hours to multiple inboxes or automations?

Quiet Hours are configured once at the organization level. After that, workflows, broadcasts, and campaigns let you choose whether each one respects Quiet Hours, while the AI Agent follows them automatically.

Does the AI Agent have its own Quiet Hours setting?

No. The AI Agent does not have a separate Quiet Hours toggle. It automatically follows the organization's Quiet Hours. Replies the agent sends in response to a contact's inbound message are still delivered, even during Quiet Hours.

Do automated workflows respect Quiet Hours?

Yes. When Quiet Hours are enabled for a workflow or broadcast, automated messages pause during off-hours and send when the next allowed window begins.

Can the Power Dialer automatically skip or reschedule calls during Quiet Hours?

No. The Power Dialer does not automatically skip contacts. If a contact falls within Quiet Hours, the user is notified and can decide whether to skip the call.

Will contacts in different time zones be respected?

Yes. Quiet Hours considers each contact's local time zone, which can be set manually on the contact record, synced from a connected HubSpot account, or estimated from the contact's phone number area code.

Can I change or disable Quiet Hours later?

Yes. Quiet Hours can be updated or disabled at any time in Profile → Settings → Organization.

Can I set different Quiet Hours for weekends?

Yes. Custom mode lets you set an independent window for Saturday and for Sunday, separate from the Weekdays window.


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