How Do I Create a Recurring Challenge?

Last updated: November 9, 2026

A recurring Challenge runs on a recurring schedule, like every weekday or the first through last day of each month. Ambition doesn't build future Challenges ahead of time; instead, it creates each new one when its start date and time arrive.

Required permissions:

  • The Competitions: All Access or Competitions: Create Challenges permission is required to create a recurring Challenge.

Set Up the First Challenge

  1. Head to Motivate --> Competitions and click on New Competition.

  2. Click on Create on the Challenge card, then fill in the Challenge Name field and the optional Description box.

  3. Click on Add Timing.

  4. Switch the toggle from One Time to Recurring.

  5. Under Establish the Initial Event, choose dates in the Initial Start Date and Initial End Date fields, then select times from the Initial Start Time and Initial End Time drop-down menus.

  6. Select a time zone from the Time Zone drop-down menu. The length of this first Challenge will be used for every future Challenge.

Choose When the Challenge Repeats

  1. Under Establish Frequency of Each Recurring Event, enter a number in the Repeats Every field and select a unit, like Week or Month, from the drop-down menu next to it.

  2. If you chose weeks or months, make the extra selections that will appear, like the days of the week.

  3. Under Establish When the Recurrence Ends, choose Never, After a number of occurrences, or On a specific date.

  4. Review the dates under Expected Occurrences.

Finish and Create the Challenge

  1. Add competitors, scoring, and prizes the same way you would for a one-time Challenge.

  2. Click on the Create Challenge drop-down button and choose Create Challenge to make the Competition to go public. Choose Create Hidden Challenge if you want the Competition to be hidden from participants.

Note:

  • If the first Challenge occurrence starts in the past, scoring for that first Challenge will begin when you create it, not at its start time. To capture the full first week, create a one-off Challenge for it and start the recurring Challenge with the second week.

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