{"id":2275,"date":"2026-03-31T02:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2275"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:51:58","password":"","slug":"why-is-my-workflow-not-executing-automatically","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/why-is-my-workflow-not-executing-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is my workflow not executing automatically?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ensure workflow status is&nbsp;<strong>Active<\/strong>. Only&nbsp;<strong>Active<\/strong>&nbsp;workflows are run by triggers (Incoming Message, Scheduled). Check trigger configuration (keywords, schedule). Review execution logs and&nbsp;<strong>User State<\/strong>&nbsp;to see if the user is already in another node or if the trigger did not fire. Verify that the execution engine (e.g. WorkflowExecutor) is enabled and that incoming messages or scheduler are calling it for this workflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ensure workflow status is&nbsp;Active. Only&nbsp;Active&nbsp;workflows are run by triggers (Incoming Message, Scheduled). Check trigger configuration (keywords, schedule). Review execution logs and&nbsp;User State&nbsp;to see if the user is already in another node or if the trigger did not fire. Verify that the execution engine (e.g. WorkflowExecutor) is enabled and that incoming messages or scheduler are calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1964],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2275","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-workflow-builder"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":70,"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":"Workflow Builder","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/workflow-builder\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2275","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=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}