How Does Minutes Until Webinar Work?

Minutes Until Webinar lets you offer a webinar that starts shortly after someone visits your registration page. The viewing time is based on when the visitor arrives, rather than only on a fixed calendar time.

This option adds a relative-time viewing option to your webinar schedule. It does not automatically remove the webinar’s regular start time or any other scheduling options you have enabled.

How Minutes Until Webinar Works

When a visitor opens your registration page, StealthSeminar calculates a viewing time based on the delay you select.

For example, if you choose 5 Minutes, the visitor may see a webinar time approximately 5–6 minutes after arriving. The system calculates the next whole-minute time, so the exact wait can be slightly longer than the selected number of minutes.

You can also control when this option is available by choosing a Start Time and End Time.

• If the calculated time is before the Start Time, it moves to the Start Time.
• If the calculated time is after the End Time, it moves to the Start Time on the next day.
• If the date is blocked by a blackout date, the time moves to the next available date.

The Start Time must be earlier than the End Time. Overnight ranges, such as 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM, are not supported.

Choose How Times Are Displayed

Your Scheduling timezone determines how the calculated time is shown:

• Attendee timezone: Each visitor sees the time in their own timezone.
• Webinar's timezone: Everyone sees the time based on the webinar’s timezone.

Turn On Minutes Until Webinar

1. Open your webinar from the dashboard.
2. Go to Scheduling.
3. Under Repeat schedule, select Yes, repeat.
4. Under Minutes Until Webinar, select On.
5. Under Minutes to the next viewing after landing on the registration page, choose one of the available options:
   • 1 Minute
   • 2 Minutes
   • 5 Minutes
   • 10 Minutes
   • 15 Minutes
   • 30 Minutes
   • 45 Minutes
   • 60 Minutes
6. Choose a Start Time.
7. Choose an End Time.
8. Save your scheduling settings.

The available delay choices and current field names are defined in the Scheduling tab.

Before You Start

Minutes Until Webinar requires a repeating schedule. Before enabling it, go to Scheduling > Repeat schedule and select Yes, repeat. The feature is not available for Live Stream or Hybrid Webinars. [1,3]

Make sure your webinar has a Webinar Start Date and Webinar Start Time. The relative viewing time will not be available before the webinar’s configured start date.

If you want to show only the Minutes Until Webinar option, review your other scheduling settings. Just In Time, Flexible Scheduling, Daily Repeat Schedule, and the regular webinar start date can all add times to the registration page.

How to Check Your Setup

1. Copy your webinar’s registration page link.
2. Open the link in a private or incognito browser window.
3. Check that an upcoming webinar time is displayed.
4. Confirm that the time is approximately the selected number of minutes after you arrived.
5. Confirm that the time falls within your chosen Start Time and End Time.
6. Complete a test registration.
7. Confirm that the countdown leads to the expected webinar time.

If other scheduling options are enabled, you may see more than one upcoming time. To test Minutes Until Webinar by itself, temporarily turn off Just In Time, Flexible Scheduling, and Daily Repeat Schedule.

Common Issues and Solutions

The registration page combines the webinar’s base start date with any enabled repeat, flexible, daily, Just In Time, and Minutes Until Webinar times. It then sorts the results and applies the Maximum repeat time limit.