# Schedule your first change

> Create a schedule with a start and an end, add a change, check the preview, and schedule it.

Tutorials · 3 min read · Updated November 4, 2026

In this tutorial you'll make a schedule that changes a metaobject entry's heading for a weekend and puts it back on Monday. The same steps work for any kind of change.

## Before you start

You need a metaobject definition with at least one entry, such as a homepage banner. Metaobjects are always available, so no extra access is needed. To change products, prices or menus instead, Metascheduler asks for that access when you add the change.

## Create the schedule

### 1. Start a new schedule

In Metascheduler, open **Calendar** and select **New schedule**, or select a day on the calendar to start on that date. Choose **Start blank**.

### 2. Name it

Give it a name you'll recognise on the calendar, like `Weekend banner`. Nothing is saved until you save for the first time.

### 3. Choose the timing

Under **How it runs**, choose **Window**. Set **Starts** to Saturday at 09:00 and **Reverts** to Monday at 09:00. The **Time zone** is your store's unless you change it.

> **Try it:** [How a schedule runs](https://metascheduler.app/help/first-schedule)

### 4. Add a change

Under **Changes**, select **Add change**, then:

1. Pick **Metaobject fields**.
2. Choose the metaobject definition and the entries to change.
3. Check the **heading** field and type the new heading. Only the fields you check change.
4. Under **At the end**, keep **Revert**, so the heading goes back on Monday.

### 5. Check the summary

The **Summary** beside the editor shows what will happen: how many items change, when it next runs, a **Preview** of up to 5 items per change (now, at the start and at the end), and any **Conflicts** with other schedules that change the same items at the same time.

### 6. Schedule it

Select **Schedule**. The schedule moves from **Draft** to **Scheduled**, and appears on the calendar. To keep working on it first, select **Save as draft**.

*The schedule editor: timing and changes on the left, the summary on the right.*

## Watch it run

At the start time, the schedule becomes **Live**: Metascheduler saves each entry's current heading, then writes the new one. At the end, it checks that the heading is still what it wrote, and puts the old one back.

Each start and end shows in **Activity**, with every item's result and its value before and after.

> **Want to see it now?**
>
> Open the schedule and select **Run now** to make its changes immediately instead of waiting. On a live schedule, **Run now** reverts it now.

## Change your mind

- **Pause** stops anything new from starting. Anything live still reverts at its end time.
- **Unschedule** moves a scheduled schedule back to drafts.
- **Archive** stops it for good. Anything live still reverts at its end.
- Once a schedule has started, its timing type and start are fixed, but you can still move the end.

## Next steps

- [Run a timed sale](https://metascheduler.app/help/run-a-sale.md): Take a percentage off prices for a weekend.
- [How reverting works](https://metascheduler.app/help/undo-and-drift.md): What happens if someone edits the entry while it's live.

## Related articles

- [How scheduling works](https://metascheduler.app/help/how-scheduling-works.md): Schedules, timing, changes, windows and runs: the ideas behind Metascheduler, and what happens at each moment.
- [Change types](https://metascheduler.app/help/change-types.md): Every kind of change Metascheduler can schedule, what it does, how it reverts, and which plan has it.
- [Run a timed sale](https://metascheduler.app/help/run-a-sale.md): Take a percentage or an amount off variant prices for a set time, show the old price as the compare-at price, and put prices back at the end.