{"id":2109,"date":"2025-10-23T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2109"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:28:50","password":"","slug":"how-do-i-temporarily-pause-a-recurring-campaign","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/how-do-i-temporarily-pause-a-recurring-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I temporarily pause a recurring campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can pause (disable) or resume (enable) any campaign without deleting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To Pause a Campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to <strong>Compose \u2192 Recurring SMS<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find your campaign in the list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look at the <strong>Status<\/strong> column (shows &#8220;Enabled&#8221;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the <strong>&#8220;Disable&#8221;<\/strong> button in the Actions column<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirm when prompted<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Status changes to &#8220;Disabled&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What happens when paused:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No messages will be sent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Campaign settings are preserved<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can resume anytime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To Resume a Campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Find the paused campaign (Status shows &#8220;Disabled&#8221;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the <strong>&#8220;Enable&#8221;<\/strong> button<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirm when prompted<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Status changes back to &#8220;Enabled&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Campaign resumes from the next scheduled trigger date<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Use Cases for Pausing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u2705 Seasonal businesses during off-season<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2705 Temporary budget constraints<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2705 Testing or reviewing campaign performance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2705 Holiday periods when you don&#8217;t want to send<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2705 Updating contact groups before next execution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Important:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pausing does NOT delete any data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Historical reports remain accessible<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pausing is better than deleting if you plan to use the campaign later<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can pause (disable) or resume (enable) any campaign without deleting it. To Pause a Campaign: What happens when paused: To Resume a Campaign: Use Cases for Pausing: Important:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1740],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2109","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-recurring-sms"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":151,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Recurring SMS","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/recurring-sms\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}