Wait

Waiting allows you to pause a workflow mid-execution, then resume where the workflow left off, with the same data. This is useful if you need to rate limit your calls to a service, or wait for an external event to complete. You can wait for a specified duration, or until a webhook fires. Waiting is one part of n8n's flow logic, and works well alongside loops when you need to slow down batch processing, or as part of a merge across multiple node executions.

Making a workflow wait uses the Wait node. Refer to the node documentation for usage details.

n8n provides a workflow template with a basic example of Rate limiting and waiting for external events.

Related resources

• Flow logic

• Split with conditionals

• Merge data

• Loop

• Understand execution order

• Break workflows into smaller parts

• Convert to sub-workflows

• Handle errors gracefully