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After-hours acknowledgement
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An example workflow in Protodesk

Automations that follow your process

Choose a trigger, add conditions, and decide what should happen next. For an after-hours email acknowledgement, a workflow can check business hours and send a fixed reply. Save your work as a draft, publish when ready, and inspect run activity to understand how the workflow behaved.

  • Start from a template or build your own workflow
  • Automatic, scheduled, and manual triggers
  • Branch on conditions, then assign, label, or update a Thread
  • Save drafts, publish when ready, and inspect run activity
  • After-hours email acknowledgements through a workflow you publish

A thoughtful reply after your team signs off

A customer emails outside business hours. A published workflow can acknowledge the message with wording your team has already approved.

  1. 1

    Choose the trigger

    Start from an incoming email and add the condition that checks workspace business hours.

  2. 2

    Define the response

    Use a fixed reply to explain when the team will return and what the customer can expect.

  3. 3

    Publish and inspect

    Publish the workflow, then review run activity to understand which path it followed.

Draft first. Publish when ready.

Saving a workflow is not the same as turning it on. Keep changes in draft while you review the trigger, conditions, and actions together.

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Frequently asked questions

Choose a trigger, add conditions, and decide what should happen next. For an after-hours email acknowledgement, a workflow can check business hours and send a fixed reply. Save your work as a draft, publish when ready, and inspect run activity to understand how the workflow behaved.
Saving a workflow is not the same as turning it on. Keep changes in draft while you review the trigger, conditions, and actions together.
An Owner or Admin can publish an Automations workflow that checks the workspace business hours and sends a fixed email acknowledgement. This email-only action uses a customer cooldown and no AI credits. It is not enabled automatically.
Every new workspace starts on a 7-day Pro trial with all Pro features enabled, including AI triage, reply drafts, auto-resolve workflows, and 300 AI credits. You do not need a credit card to start. The trial is meant to let your team connect an inbox, test real support conversations, and understand how AI customer support automation fits your workflow before paying.

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