# Triggers

> The four ways a job starts, and what happens when more than one is switched on.

Section: Automations
Address: https://scytian.com/docs/triggers
Updated: 2026-09-14

What starts a run is decided in the plan, not left to chance. Four kinds of trigger exist, and more than one can be switched on for the same job.

## A schedule

Every fifteen minutes, at six in the morning, on the first working day of the month. Schedules run in your company's time zone, and each person can see the timeline in their own.

## A webhook

Another system sends an event and the job runs. Your shop, your CRM, a portal, another automation tool. See [Webhooks](/docs/webhooks).

## A form

Somebody presses Send and the job runs, with what they filled in as the input. See [Forms](/docs/forms).

## A manual run

You start a run yourself, on a job that is still switched off, with a test payload. That is how a job is tried before it is live, and it is the only way to run something that is not enabled yet.

## What arrives with the run

Whatever the trigger carried: the event, the file, the form answers. The plan says which fields are required, and what happens when one is missing. A job that is switched off does not silently swallow a request. The caller is told the truth.