---
title: "Schedule & Break-up Rules"
description: "Discover more about the Schedule & Break-up settings of your cadence."
url: https://help.zixflow.com/en/articles/23-schedule-and-break-up-rules
collection: "Cadence"
updated: 2024-04-12
language: en
---

# Schedule & Break-up Rules

Discover more about the Schedule & Break-up settings of your cadence.

When building your cadence, you would have come across the Schedule and Break-up Rules. So let’s understand these options in more detail.

## Schedule cadence

You can schedule your cadence with two options - Any day, Any time or Specific Day & Time.

-   Any day, Any time - The cadence will start on any day of the week at any time.
    
-   Specific Day & Time - If you want the cadence to run on any specific day, time, or time zone, you can select the same from here.  
    

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## Cadence Break-Up Rule

The cadence break-up rule instructs to stop sending the next step if any one of the selected actions takes place. 

-   Email Replied - Contact replies to the email
    
-   Email Opened - Contact opens the email
    
-   Email Errored - Due to some error if the email is not sent
    
-   Activity Completed - If an activity is marked complete
    
-   SMS Delivered - SMS once delivered to the recipient
    
-   SMS Undelivered - SMS is undelivered due to an error
    
-   WhatsApp Delivered - WhatsApp once delivered to the recipient
    
-   WhatsApp Read - WhatsApp once read by the recipient
    
-   WhatsApp Failed - WhatsApp is undelivered due to an error  
    

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