# Schedule a mail merge

Source: https://yamm.com/help/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/

Run your mail merge later, on a chosen date and time. You can only schedule one mail merge at a time, but you can always [cancel a scheduled mail merge](#cancel-a-scheduled-mail-merge) from the YAMM dashboard.

## Schedule mail merges for later delivery

**Prerequisites**

- [A Pro plan for YAMM.](https://yamm.com/pricing)
- [A contact list spreadsheet in Google Sheets and an email template in Gmail.](https://yamm.com/help/usage/quickstart/index.md)

1. In Google Sheets, open your [contact list spreadsheet](https://yamm.com/help/usage/create-campaign/build-contact-list/index.md).

2. Select **Extensions** > **Yet Another Mail Merge: Mail Merge for Gmail** > **Start Mail Merge**.

   ![Start Mail Merge from the Extensions menu](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/start-mail-merge/send-first-mail-merge-with-yamm-1.png)

3. In the **Start Mail Merge** window:

   1. Check that YAMM correctly detected the recipient column.

   2. (Optional) Enter a **Sender Name**.

   3. Select your Gmail draft from the **Email Template** dropdown. Click **Refresh** if your draft does not appear.

   4. Select the tracking option to measure the performance of your campaign. If your template contains an [unsubscribe link](https://yamm.com/help/usage/create-campaign/insert-unsubscribe-link/index.md), tracking must be enabled for it to work.

   ![All the mail merge options in the Start Mail Merge window](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/start-mail-merge/send-first-mail-merge-with-yamm-2.png)

4. Click **Schedule**.

   ![Start Mail Merge window with the Schedule button](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/schedule-mail-merges-for-later-delivery-2.png)

5. Select a date and time. You can schedule up to 2 weeks in advance. The delivery time is approximate: YAMM checks your Google spreadsheet every 30 minutes, so emails may be sent up to 30 minutes after the specified time.

   ![Delivery date and time fields in the Start Mail Merge window, with a Leave some quota field and a Schedule merge button](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/schedule-mail-merges-for-later-delivery-3.png)

6. (Optional) Leave some Gmail account quota for other emails after the scheduled mail merge. For example, if you have 20 recipients remaining in your Gmail quota and want to keep 10 after the merge, enter `10` in the **Leave some quota** field.

7. Click **Schedule merge**.

The mail merge is scheduled. In your contact list spreadsheet, the `SCHEDULED` status appears under the `Merge status` column. When the mail merge is sent, the status changes to `EMAIL_SENT`.

![A modal indicates success and the spreadsheet is updated with a Merge status column](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/schedule-mail-merges-for-later-delivery-6.png)

You can check its status or [cancel it](#cancel-a-scheduled-mail-merge) from the [YAMM dashboard](https://app.yamm.com).

![The scheduled mail merge is visible in your YAMM dashboard under Mail merge, Scheduled](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/schedule-mail-merges-for-later-delivery-result.png)

Info: You can schedule only one mail merge at a time. If you try to schedule another, a warning appears — clicking **Schedule merge** again cancels the previously scheduled merge.

## Cancel a scheduled mail merge

Cancel a scheduled mail merge from the [YAMM dashboard](https://app.yamm.com).

Info: Deleting the `SCHEDULED` status (or the `Merge status` column) in your contact list spreadsheet doesn't fully cancel the scheduled merge.

1. Sign in to your [YAMM dashboard](https://app.yamm.com/).

2. In the sidebar, click **Mail merges**.

   ![Mail merges selected in the YAMM dashboard sidebar](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/cancel-scheduled-mail-merge-1.png)

3. In the **Scheduled** tab, click the sheet name for the scheduled mail merge.

   ![Scheduled tab of the YAMM dashboard listing one scheduled mail merge by sheet name, date, time, and number of emails](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/cancel-scheduled-mail-merge-3.png)

4. Click **Cancel mail merge**.

   ![Scheduled mail merge details panel with the Cancel mail merge option](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/cancel-scheduled-mail-merge-4.png)

5. (Optional) In the contact list spreadsheet, right-click the `Merge status` column and choose **Delete column** to remove the outdated status.

   ![Right-click menu on the Merge status column with Delete column selected, next to rows showing the SCHEDULED status](https://yamm.com/help/images/docs/usage/launch-campaign/schedule-mail-merge/cancel-scheduled-mail-merge-7.png)

The scheduled mail merge is canceled.

## What's next

- [Track your campaign](https://yamm.com/help/usage/track-campaign/index.md) for opens, clicks, responses, bounces, unsubscribes.

- [Re-run a mail merge](https://yamm.com/help/usage/launch-campaign/re-run-mail-merge/index.md), or [run a follow-up](https://yamm.com/help/usage/launch-campaign/follow-up/index.md) with non-openers or non-repliers.