Placing the order before the Story's window closes

Delivery moves forward in stages once checkout clears, with no fixed minute for finishing, so the target needs to remain public and posted for that entire stretch. Send the link through soon after posting rather than waiting until the hours are nearly gone — a Story that lapses partway through delivery means anything still queued has nothing left to reach.
Get the Story published and confirmed public first, and only afterward send the link to checkout — flipping that sequence wastes part of the window. Gulf Standard Time sits at UTC+4 with no clock change to plan around, so the window stays a consistent length year-round; what varies is how late the Story goes up. One posted mid-afternoon during Ramadan can burn through much of its life before the evening audience settles in after iftar.

