Can I schedule a repeating request?

No. This fires a single request at a chosen time. For a recurring schedule use a real cron service - and check your expression with the cron parser first, because the day-of-month and day-of-week fields catch almost everyone.

Can I send custom headers and a body?

Yes. The method, headers and body are yours to set, so it can call a webhook that expects a signature header or a specific payload.

What happens if the destination is down at that moment?

The attempt is made and may fail. For anything where a miss matters, use a scheduler with proper retry behaviour and failure notification.

Do I need an account?

No. The schedule is created with a token kept in your browser, which is what lets you come back and cancel it.

A cron-job.org alternative for the request that happens once

Start with the honest part: cron-job.org runs recurring schedules and this does not. If you want something called every hour, stop reading and use it. This tool does one thing that a recurring scheduler is genuinely awkward at, which is firing exactly once and then not existing any more.

Open the Scheduled Webhook →

cron-job.org and Softland, side by side

	cron-job.org	Softland
Recurring schedules	Yes - the whole product	No
A single request at a chosen time	Possible, then needs deleting afterwards	The only thing it does
Custom headers and body	Yes	Yes
Account	Required	None
Execution history and retries	Kept, with failure notifications	Minimal

A one-off is not a schedule with a count of one

The requests people actually want to send once are specific: publish this at nine on Tuesday, expire this trial at the end of the month, trigger this migration during the maintenance window, call this webhook after the embargo lifts, kick off a job once the DNS change has propagated.

Expressing that in a recurring scheduler means creating a schedule that will match once, then remembering to remove it before it matches again next month - and the second half is the part that gets forgotten, because by then the thing it was for is done and nobody is thinking about it. A one-shot primitive has no cleanup step, which is most of its value.

The infrastructure this replaces is absurdly large

Sending one HTTP request at a future moment is, conceptually, nothing. Obtaining the ability to do it usually means a server that stays running, or a queue with a delayed message, or a scheduled function and the deployment pipeline around it, or a third-party service with an account and a dashboard - all so that a single request can be made at a time you already know.

For a side project, a static site, or a one-time coordination between two systems that have no other reason to know about each other, that is a large amount of machinery for a small amount of behaviour. Setting the time and the destination and walking away is the right size for the problem.

What to assume about delivery

The request goes out at the scheduled moment. If the destination is down or slow at that instant, that is a real risk, and a one-shot request with minimal retrying is the wrong tool for anything where the consequence of a miss is serious. Financial operations, anything with a compliance deadline, anything that must happen exactly once and be proven to have happened - those need a system with retries, an audit trail and someone to page.

Design the receiving end to be idempotent regardless. Any scheduled call can arrive twice or arrive late, whatever sends it, and an endpoint that handles a repeat safely turns a whole class of scheduling problem into a non-event.

When cron-job.org is the better choice

The request repeats - hourly, daily, weekly - which is what a cron service exists for and what this deliberately does not do.
You need execution history, retries on failure, and notification when a call does not succeed.
The job matters enough that missing it has real consequences, in which case you want something with an audit trail.
You want to manage many scheduled jobs in one place rather than set one and forget it.

Frequently asked questions

Can I schedule a repeating request?: No. This fires a single request at a chosen time. For a recurring schedule use a real cron service - and check your expression with the cron parser first, because the day-of-month and day-of-week fields catch almost everyone.
Can I send custom headers and a body?: Yes. The method, headers and body are yours to set, so it can call a webhook that expects a signature header or a specific payload.
What happens if the destination is down at that moment?: The attempt is made and may fail. For anything where a miss matters, use a scheduler with proper retry behaviour and failure notification.
Do I need an account?: No. The schedule is created with a token kept in your browser, which is what lets you come back and cancel it.

Try it yourself

Fire one HTTP request at a time you choose.

Open the Scheduled Webhook

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