> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Read a newsletter send-time recommendation

> Returns a cached unexpired recommendation or computes one from tenant newsletter aggregates over the last 180days. Requires at least 50 delivered messages, 4 campaigns and 2 comparison slots with at least 2 campaigns each; latest delivery must be within 45days. The next winning local two-hour slot is at least 30minutes ahead. Results expire after one day. Insufficient/stale data and unexpected failures, including an invalid timezone, return 200 with a non-ready status; manual scheduling remains available. Requires permission: one of newsletter.



## OpenAPI

````yaml get /admin/newsLetters/timing-recommendation
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Gratona API
  description: >-
    REST API for the Gratona fundraising platform, including donor, donation,
    sponsorship, program, event, and integration workflows. Endpoints are
    organized by tag. Most endpoints require either a Passport bearer token or
    an issued API key — see the Security Schemes section.
  contact:
    name: Gratona Engineering
    url: https://gratona.com
    email: devs@gratona.com
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://api.gratona.com/v1
    description: Server Version 1.0.0
security: []
tags:
  - name: Auth
    description: >-
      Login, signup, logout, password reset, and email verification for admin
      users and donors.
  - name: Donors
    description: >-
      Donor records: CRUD, profile fields, household linkage, search, filters,
      merge, and duplicate detection.
  - name: Donations
    description: >-
      Individual donation records, recurring commitments, soft credits, refunds,
      designations, and exports.
  - name: Sponsorships
    description: >-
      Donor-to-entity commitment relationships, lifecycle transitions, and
      commitment-specific filters.
  - name: Entities
    description: >-
      Recipient records (children, families, projects, animals, etc.), their
      status, and entity-level fields.
  - name: Programs
    description: >-
      Program / campaign configuration: hierarchy, settings, and program-level
      metadata.
  - name: Forms
    description: >-
      Custom form builder (HysForm), form fields, standardized donor fields, and
      field migrations.
  - name: Trips
    description: >-
      Mission-trip management: trips, participants, budgets, tasks,
      e-signatures, fundraising milestones, and background checks.
  - name: Communications
    description: >-
      Email templates, SMS, newsletters, donor email manager, and per-donor
      notes.
  - name: Payments
    description: >-
      Payment-gateway management (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, QuickBooks).
      Excludes inbound webhooks — see the Webhooks tag.
  - name: Reports
    description: Dashboards, analytics, scheduled reports, and exports.
  - name: Admin
    description: >-
      Client-account administration: users, groups/permissions, settings,
      integrations, and account lifecycle.
  - name: Donor Portal
    description: >-
      Endpoints consumed by the donor-facing portal (donor login, dashboard,
      donation history, messages).
  - name: Recipient Portal
    description: Endpoints consumed by the recipient-facing portal.
  - name: Public
    description: >-
      Unauthenticated public endpoints: donor signup, public trip pages,
      peer-to-peer campaigns, public checkout.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Inbound webhooks from third parties (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, Checkr,
      DropboxSign). Annotated minimally for reference; payload shapes are owned
      by the upstream provider.
  - name: Events
    description: >-
      Event setup, invitations, registration, ticketing, attendance and event
      reporting.
  - name: Journeys
    description: >-
      Journey graphs, activation, enrollment, message templates and event
      follow-up automations.
  - name: Tasks
    description: Workspace tasks, assignments, saved task views and record collaboration.
  - name: Fundraising
    description: >-
      Fundraising portfolios, stewardship plans, giving anniversaries and
      personal donor follow-up.
  - name: Impact Stories
    description: Story intake, review, assets, consent and publication workflows.
  - name: Integrations
    description: Workspace integration connections, mappings, synchronization and recovery.
  - name: Email Calendar
    description: Connected email/calendar accounts and donor interactions.
  - name: Spaces
    description: Workspace Spaces and collaborative Pages.
  - name: Library
    description: Workspace documents, source connections, files and analysis.
  - name: Intelligence
    description: Donor intelligence and Tali workspace workflows.
  - name: Automation
    description: >-
      V3 automation primitive discovery, input validation, invocation and Zapier
      contracts.
  - name: Schema
    description: V3 model, enum, capability and scope discovery.
  - name: Zapier
    description: Zapier automation connections, polling feeds and actions.
  - name: Files
    description: Files
  - name: Client
    description: Client
  - name: Payment Gateways
    description: Payment Gateways
  - name: Email Settings
    description: Email Settings
  - name: Admin Dashboard
    description: Admin Dashboard
  - name: Recipients
    description: Recipients
  - name: Historical Archived Updates
    description: Historical Archived Updates
  - name: Team & access
    description: Team & access
  - name: Settings
    description: Settings
  - name: Notifications
    description: Notifications
  - name: Participation
    description: Participation
  - name: Users
    description: Users
  - name: Wrapped
    description: Wrapped
  - name: Donor SignUp
    description: Donor SignUp
  - name: Frontend
    description: Frontend
  - name: User
    description: User
  - name: Workspace
    description: Workspace
paths:
  /admin/newsLetters/timing-recommendation:
    get:
      tags:
        - Communications
      summary: Read a newsletter send-time recommendation
      description: >-
        Returns a cached unexpired recommendation or computes one from tenant
        newsletter aggregates over the last 180days. Requires at least 50
        delivered messages, 4 campaigns and 2 comparison slots with at least 2
        campaigns each; latest delivery must be within 45days. The next winning
        local two-hour slot is at least 30minutes ahead. Results expire after
        one day. Insufficient/stale data and unexpected failures, including an
        invalid timezone, return 200 with a non-ready status; manual scheduling
        remains available. Requires permission: one of newsletter.
      operationId: communicationsNewsletterTimingRecommendationShow
      parameters:
        - name: timezone
          in: query
          description: IANA timezone; defaults to organization timezone or UTC.
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
          example: Africa/Kampala
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Operation result.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: >-
                  #/components/schemas/CommunicationsNewsletterTimingRecommendation
        '401':
          description: Authentication is required.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedResponse'
        '403':
          description: >-
            The authenticated user lacks access to this workflow or its related
            records.
        '404':
          description: The organization is unavailable.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundResponse'
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
        - apiKeyAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    CommunicationsNewsletterTimingRecommendation:
      oneOf:
        - required:
            - status
            - data
          properties:
            status:
              type: string
              enum:
                - ready
              example: ready
            data:
              properties:
                id:
                  type: string
                  format: uuid
                  example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
                resolvedAt:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                  example: '2026-10-27T07:00:00Z'
                localDatetime:
                  type: string
                  example: '2026-10-27T10:00:00'
                timezone:
                  type: string
                  example: Africa/Kampala
                offsetMinutes:
                  type: integer
                  example: 180
                confidence:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - low
                    - medium
                    - high
                  example: low
                basis:
                  description: >-
                    Aggregated newsletter history over 180 days; winningSlot
                    appears for a ready recommendation.
                  properties:
                    deliveredMessages:
                      type: integer
                      example: 150
                    independentCampaigns:
                      type: integer
                      example: 6
                    comparisonSlots:
                      type: integer
                      example: 3
                    dataFrom:
                      type: string
                      format: date-time
                      example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
                      nullable: true
                    dataTo:
                      type: string
                      format: date-time
                      example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
                      nullable: true
                    requirements:
                      properties:
                        deliveredMessages:
                          type: integer
                          example: 50
                        independentCampaigns:
                          type: integer
                          example: 4
                        comparisonSlots:
                          type: integer
                          example: 2
                        maximumDataAgeDays:
                          type: integer
                          example: 45
                      type: object
                    winningSlot:
                      properties:
                        weekday:
                          type: integer
                          maximum: 7
                          minimum: 1
                          example: 2
                        hour:
                          type: integer
                          maximum: 22
                          minimum: 0
                          example: 10
                        deliveredMessages:
                          type: integer
                          example: 100
                        independentCampaigns:
                          type: integer
                          example: 3
                        uniqueOpenRate:
                          type: number
                          example: 0.35
                        uniqueClickRate:
                          type: number
                          example: 0.05
                      type: object
                  type: object
                generatedAt:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                  example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
                  nullable: true
                expiresAt:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                  example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
                  nullable: true
                algorithmVersion:
                  type: string
                  example: engagement-slots-v1
              type: object
          type: object
        - required:
            - status
            - message
          properties:
            status:
              type: string
              enum:
                - insufficient_data
                - stale
                - unavailable
              example: insufficient_data
            message:
              type: string
              example: >-
                More varied newsletter history is needed before a recommendation
                is available.
            basis:
              description: >-
                Aggregated newsletter history over 180 days; winningSlot appears
                for a ready recommendation.
              properties:
                deliveredMessages:
                  type: integer
                  example: 150
                independentCampaigns:
                  type: integer
                  example: 6
                comparisonSlots:
                  type: integer
                  example: 3
                dataFrom:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                  example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
                  nullable: true
                dataTo:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                  example: '2026-10-20T12:00:00Z'
                  nullable: true
                requirements:
                  properties:
                    deliveredMessages:
                      type: integer
                      example: 50
                    independentCampaigns:
                      type: integer
                      example: 4
                    comparisonSlots:
                      type: integer
                      example: 2
                    maximumDataAgeDays:
                      type: integer
                      example: 45
                  type: object
                winningSlot:
                  properties:
                    weekday:
                      type: integer
                      maximum: 7
                      minimum: 1
                      example: 2
                    hour:
                      type: integer
                      maximum: 22
                      minimum: 0
                      example: 10
                    deliveredMessages:
                      type: integer
                      example: 100
                    independentCampaigns:
                      type: integer
                      example: 3
                    uniqueOpenRate:
                      type: number
                      example: 0.35
                    uniqueClickRate:
                      type: number
                      example: 0.05
                  type: object
              type: object
          type: object
    UnauthorizedResponse:
      title: UnauthorizedResponse
      description: >-
        Returned with HTTP 401 when the request lacks a valid Passport bearer
        token, a valid `X-HYS-API-Key`, or a valid session. The body is the
        simple `{message, status}` envelope emitted by `AuthenticateApiOrKey`.
      required:
        - message
        - status
      properties:
        message:
          description: >-
            Always the literal string `Unauthorized` from the `auth.api_or_key`
            middleware. Login endpoints return `Invalid Credentials` instead.
          type: string
          example: Unauthorized
        status:
          type: string
          example: error
      type: object
    NotFoundResponse:
      title: NotFoundResponse
      description: >-
        Returned with HTTP 404 when a resource lookup misses (typically because
        the id doesn't exist OR is scoped to a different `client_id`). Note:
        many endpoints intentionally collapse 'not found' and 'forbidden' into a
        single 404 to avoid leaking which records exist in another tenant.
      required:
        - message
      properties:
        message:
          description: >-
            Human-readable message. Often a more specific string like `Donor not
            found` or `Trip not found`.
          type: string
          example: Not Found
        status:
          type: string
          example: error
      type: object
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      description: Passport bearer token authentication for legacy admin sessions.
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      description: Gratona API key sent with the compatibility header X-HYS-API-Key.
      name: X-HYS-API-Key
      in: header

````

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