# Schedule and space out a bulk publishing job

How to choose the delay between publications and the activity hours of a bulk publishing job, in Madrid time, and save them as a preset.

_Updated: 2026-10-01 · Source: https://ruit.es/en/docs/schedule-bulk-publishing/_

This guide explains the **Schedule** step of the bulk publishing wizard: how often a listing goes
out and at what hours. It also explains how to save that schedule as a **preset**, so you can load
it with one tap next time. Bulk publishing is a **Premium** plan feature, and the whole
walkthrough, from ticking the products to following the job, is in
[Publish many products at once](https://ruit.es/en/docs/publish-in-bulk/).

RUIT does not publish a job all at once: it spaces the listings out with a delay and only publishes
within your activity hours.

## The delay between publications

It is the time that passes between two listings **on the same marketplace**, because each
marketplace keeps its own clock:

- A product going to three marketplaces goes out on all three at once.
- The next product goes out, on each marketplace, once the delay has passed since the previous one.
- Two accounts on the same marketplace share a clock. They go out one after the other: first one
  account's products and then the other's.

So how long a job lasts depends on how many listings go to the same marketplace. Twenty products on
two Wallapop accounts take twice as long as on just one; on Wallapop and Vinted at the same time,
the same as on one.

You choose the delay in **Delay between publications**:

| Option | Delay |
| --- | --- |
| **Auto · 2 min** | Two minutes. It is the one selected by default |
| **3 min**, **4 min** and **5 min** | The one each of them says |
| **Custom** | Whatever you choose with the minus and plus buttons, in **min** or in **h**, from 1 minute to 30 days |
| **Random** | Each delay is drawn at random between a **Minimum wait** and a **Maximum wait** |

Fixed delays are approximate, and the control says so: RUIT adds a random extra of up to 30% to
them, so that the pace is not regular. With **Auto · 2 min**, each listing goes out between 2 and
2.6 minutes after the previous one on that marketplace.

With **Custom**, the buttons stop at the limits, which are shown below them:
**min 1min · max 30d**. With **Random**, the maximum starts at twice the minimum and can never go
below it. No extra is added there: the delay is already random.

_Screenshot: The Schedule step with Random chosen, which now shows the 2 to 4 minute range: Minimum wait at 2 min and Maximum wait at 4 min, each with its minus and plus buttons, the line Each wait is drawn at random between the minimum and the maximum, and the limits min 1min · max 30d_

Once chosen, the **Random** button shows the range: here, from 2 to 4 minutes.

## The activity hours

They are the time windows in the week during which RUIT can publish. Outside them nothing goes out:
whatever was due waits for the next window, without being lost. There is no start date either: the
job starts as soon as you launch it, if you are inside a window, or when the next one opens.

The hours are always **Madrid time**: the wizard has no time zone selector. If you sell from the
Canary Islands or from outside Spain, work it out using Madrid time.

To set up your week:

1. Switch each day on with its toggle, from **Mon** to **Sun**. A day that is off says
   **Disabled**; one you switch on starts with the 09:00 to 21:00 window.
2. Press a time to change it. It is written in 24-hour format, and if the start ends up after the
   end, RUIT swaps them.
3. With **+** you add another window to that day, for example one in the morning and another in the
   afternoon. A window's **X** deletes it.
4. With the clipboard icon, **Copy to all days**, that day's windows are copied to all seven,
   including the ones that were off.

**Next** becomes active when at least one day has a window. If the week opens with every day on
**Disabled**, switch on the ones you want or load a preset.

The delay and the hours are fixed into the job when you launch it, and a running job cannot be
edited. If you want a different schedule, cancel it and launch another one.

## How long it will take

In the **Confirm** step, RUIT uses your delay and your hours to work out when the job will finish
(**Today** or **Tomorrow** with a time, or a date) and how many publications go out per day on any
one marketplace, on average: for example, **~12/day**. Below that it sums up your schedule, like
**Mon-Fri 09:00-14:00**, and your delay, like **2min between publications to the same marketplace**.

Narrow windows make a job much longer. With a 30-minute delay and a two-hour window each day, about
four listings go out daily on each marketplace: forty products on one marketplace take ten days.
That is why this step warns you in two cases:

- The estimate goes beyond a week, two weeks or a month. For example:
  **This job will take more than a week to complete**.
- Your windows add up to less than two hours a day on average:
  **Few activity hours can significantly extend the time it takes**.

These are warnings and they do not stop you from starting. The estimate is approximate: it does not
count the random extra on each delay, and it does count the products RUIT will skip when creating
the job because they are already published or in another job's queue.

_Screenshot: The Confirm step of a job with the Fines de semana preset: 3 products × 2 accounts = 6 publications, with the estimated finish date and the daily average; the Sat, Sun 10:00-14:00 schedule with 5min between publications to the same marketplace and, at the end, the amber notice Few activity hours can significantly extend the time it takes_

Four hours on Saturday and another four on Sunday: RUIT warns that the job will take longer.

## Why it can take longer than estimated

When it sends out each listing, RUIT applies two more rules that the estimate does not count:

- **One at a time per marketplace.** While one listing is being published, the next one for the
  same marketplace does not start, even if its time has come.
- **The delay is always respected.** If the previous one went out less than the delay ago, the next
  one waits. After an interruption, the overdue ones do not go out all at once to catch up: they
  carry on one by one, at your pace.

Retries of whatever fails also respect your delay and your hours.

> **Note:** Each job keeps its own clock, and two jobs do not wait for each other. If you launch two at once to
> the same account, they publish in parallel. For that account to keep your pace, launch the second
> one when the first one finishes.

## Saving your schedule as a preset

A preset saves a delay and a set of activity hours under a name. The wizard always opens on
**Auto · 2 min** and does not remember your last job's schedule, so if you repeat one, save it.

At the top of the **Schedule** step is the **Schedule Presets** block:

1. Set the delay and the hours the way you want to save them.
2. Press **Save**, type the **Preset name** and press **Save** again.
3. When what you have on screen matches a preset, the button says **Saved**.

_Screenshot: The Schedule step with the Schedule Presets block at the top: the Entre semana preset loaded in the selector, the grayed-out Saved button and Reset; below, the delay and the hours it has loaded_

The **Entre semana** preset loaded: the button says **Saved** because what you see matches it.

To use one, press **Select preset** and choose it. Each one says how many days it has and its
delay, like **5 days • 2min delay**, and choosing it loads both. If you do not have any yet, the
selector says **No saved presets**.

If you have marked one as default, a button with **Use** and its name appears below. It is not
applied automatically: press it to load it.

**Reset** switches off every day of the week. The delay stays as it is.

## Managing your presets in Settings

Your presets are in **Settings → Presets**, on the **Schedule Presets** page. You can also get there
from **Settings → Automations & AI → Publishing presets**.

_Screenshot: Settings → Presets: the Schedule Presets page with the Create New Preset button and two presets, Entre semana with the default mark and Fines de semana with the Use button; each with its trash can_

Each preset shows its days and its delay.

To create one:

1. Press **Create New Preset**.
2. Type the **Preset Name**, for example "Weekdays only".
3. Choose the **Delay between publications** and the **Activity hours**. A new preset starts at
   **Auto · 2 min**, Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 21:00. Give it at least one day with a window:
   without any, the wizard will not let you continue with it.
4. If you want the wizard to offer it to you, turn on **Set as default**.
5. Press **Create**.

_Screenshot: The Create Preset window: Preset Name empty, Delay between publications on Auto · 2 min, Activity hours from Mon to Fri from 09:00 to 21:00 with Sat and Sun on Disabled, the Set as default toggle and the Cancel and Create buttons_

A new preset starts like this: Monday to Friday, from 09:00 to 21:00.

In the list, each preset shows its name, its days and its delay:

- Press it to change it in **Edit Preset**, and save with **Save**.
- **Use** marks it as the default. There can only be one, and it carries the **default** mark.
- The trash can deletes it, after you confirm with **Delete**.

Changing or deleting a preset does not affect jobs already launched: each job stores its delay and
its hours when it starts.

## Presets also work for bulk renewing

When you renew several listings at once, the scheduling step has the same preset selector. There
the delay counts between renewals on the same account, not on the same marketplace. Renewing is
explained in [Renew a listing](https://ruit.es/en/docs/renew-a-listing/).

- [Publish many products at once](https://ruit.es/en/docs/publish-in-bulk/)
- [Renew a listing](https://ruit.es/en/docs/renew-a-listing/)
- [The products table](https://ruit.es/en/docs/the-products-table/)