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Schedules let your website stay alive over time. Without them, your app mostly reacts only when someone visits or clicks. With Schedules, you can automate recurring background tasks and empower your users to build their own automations—turning a static site into an active, always-on application.
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What it is

Schedules allow you to run automated, recurring tasks in the background of your web application. There are two main ways to use them: App-owned schedules are defined by you, the website creator, and are perfect for global app-wide logic. User-owned schedules are created by the end-users of your application. This allows you to build apps where your users can define their own automations. For example:
  • A newsletter app where each user chooses their topic, email address, delivery cadence, and time of day
  • A habit tracker where users schedule their own personalized reminders
Both app-owned and user-owned schedules run in exactly the same way. The only difference is who creates them.

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How to use it

Setting up schedules is done conversationally. You simply tell Manus what automated tasks you want your app to perform. Manus will write the logic into your website code and register the cron job automatically.

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Adding an app-owned schedule

Describe the recurring task you want to automate directly in the Manus chat. For example:
“Set up a schedule to fetch the latest stock prices from the API every 15 minutes and update the dashboard.”
Manus will write the necessary backend logic and register the schedule to run at your specified interval.

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Adding user-owned schedules

To let your app’s users create their own schedules, ask Manus to build the feature into your app:
“Create a feature where my users can schedule a daily email reminder for their tasks, letting them pick the time of day.”
Manus will build the UI for your users and handle the underlying schedule creation dynamically.

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Managing your schedules

You can view, pause, or delete your schedules at any time from Settings > Schedules in your Manus project dashboard. The dashboard shows each schedule’s status, next run time, success rate, average duration, and full run history.

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Limitations & Configurations

DetailValue
Minimum frequencyEvery 1 minute
Maximum schedules per app5
TimezoneUTC (Manus handles conversions when you specify a local time)
Timezones: All schedules run in UTC. When you ask Manus to create a schedule for a specific local time (e.g., “every day at 9 AM Tokyo time”), Manus will automatically handle the conversion to UTC for you. Failures and retries: If a scheduled job fails, the scheduler will automatically retry it up to 3 total attempts with exponential backoff. You can view the detailed response payload and error logs in the Run History section of the dashboard. Click Investigate to have Manus automatically analyze and fix the error.
App-owned Schedules are created by the app builder for global app behavior. User-owned Schedules are created by users inside the app for personal reminders, newsletters, alerts, or reports.
No. You describe the scheduled behavior you want, and Manus handles the setup for the task or web app.
You can manage them from Settings > Schedules in the Manus project dashboard, where you can review status, next run time, success rate, average duration, and run history.