Use case
Automated report generation & email digests
Trigger recurring reports on any cadence: daily KPI emails, weekly sales digests, monthly invoice runs. Crontap calls your report endpoint at the right time, with the right payload, and alerts you when it fails.
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The problem
Why this is painful without the right tool
- Every reporting tool has its own scheduler and they're all slightly different; you end up juggling cadences across three dashboards.
- Timezones are a nightmare: the CEO wants their weekly digest at 8am local, but your server runs UTC.
- When a report fails silently, you find out on Monday morning in the exec's Slack DM.
- Custom reports built in your own app need a scheduler somewhere, and "somewhere" becomes technical debt fast.
The fix
How Crontap solves it
Crontap gives every scheduled report its own cron, its own timezone, its own payload and its own failure alert channel. Point it at your reporting endpoint (your own API, a Zapier zap that drives Google Sheets, an n8n workflow, or a third-party reporting API) and it just runs.
0 8 * * 1The setup is usually one webhook URL and one cron expression: your endpoint pulls the metrics, renders the email (Postmark, Resend, SendGrid, Mailgun) and returns 200. If it returns 5xx or times out, Crontap retries and alerts the on-call channel. Timezone is set per schedule, so your APAC team can get their 9am digest at 9am their time without you touching server config.
Common setups we see: daily Mixpanel/Amplitude KPIs into Slack, weekly Stripe revenue summary by email, monthly invoice PDF generation, overnight data-warehouse freshness reports.
FAQ
Common questions
- Can I send reports at 9am in multiple timezones?
- Yes: create one schedule per timezone. Each schedule has its own timezone field, so you can have `0 9 * * 1-5` in Europe/Copenhagen, America/New_York and Asia/Tokyo, all pointing at the same report endpoint with a payload that tells it which region to render.
- What if my report takes a minute or two to generate?
- That's fine. Crontap waits for the response up to its per-request timeout. For very long reports, a cleaner pattern is to have Crontap trigger a background job (a queue insert, for example) and let your worker do the heavy lifting. Your endpoint returns 200 instantly and the real work happens async.
- How do I know the report actually went out?
- Every run is in the schedule's history with status code, duration and response body. You can also wire up a success notification via the Integrations panel if you want a ping in Slack confirming "Monday report delivered OK" each week.
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