Senders and limits

Choose who a campaign sends from, and see the real daily limits, working hours, gaps and warm-up that decide when messages go out.

A sender is the account a campaign’s messages come from. This page covers how to choose one, and the numbers that decide how fast it sends. Sender limits lower the chance of trouble on LinkedIn. No setting can promise an account won’t be restricted.

Pick senders for a campaign

1. Open the campaign's settings

   Go to Settings, then Senders, and click Change or Add a sender.

2. Tick the senders

   People are shared between the senders you tick, and each person hears from one sender.

3. Save

   Click Save. If you clear them all, nothing sends until you add one.

Manage senders opens Settings › Senders, where you connect accounts and set each one’s pace. See Connect LinkedIn.

One limit per sender

All campaigns share a sender’s daily limit, so adding a campaign never adds sends. If the same LinkedIn is connected in another workspace, its daily limits are shared there too.

Pace

Open a sender in Settings › Senders and choose a Pace. Changing it doesn’t send anything. A new sender’s slow start still applies until it ends.

A sender's panel in Settings › Senders, with Pace and More options open.

Pace	Invites a day	Gap between sends	Weekends
Safe pace (recommended)	8 to 15	At least 12 minutes	No sending
Balanced	12 to 20	At least 8 minutes	No sending
Custom	Your own number, in More options	Stays as it was	Stays as it was

On Safe pace and Balanced, each day’s invite limit is picked at random inside the range, and it stays the same for that day.

Limits for each action

Under the sender’s More options:

Limit	Default
Invites a day	Set by the pace
Messages a day	40
InMails a day	40
Profile views a day	40

Likes and follows have their own limit of 40 a day too. A like and a comment on a post share one count. Each number can be from 0 to 100, and changing one switches the pace to Custom.

Above 40 invites a day, LinkedIn restricts accounts much more often. The page warns you and offers Go back to Safe pace. Lower numbers carry less risk, and no number removes it.

Gaps between sends

Sends don’t go out back to back.

• Invites, messages and InMails wait at least the pace’s gap since the sender’s last action.
• Profile views, likes and follows wait at least 4 minutes.
• A random extra of up to a minute is added on top.

In Settings › Safety, under More options, Gap between two sends sets a range for the whole team, and we pick a random time inside it. The range only applies once you save it. It can slow a sender down and never speeds one up past its pace.

New senders warm up

A new sender starts at 5 invites a day and climbs a little each day until it reaches its limit, over 14 days by default. Change the length with Warm-up for a new sender in Settings › Safety, from 0 to 60 days. A setting of 0 means no warm-up. Warm-up only limits invites.

The sender’s page shows the day it’s on and the date it reaches full pace.

After a long disconnect or a restriction

If an account comes back after a long time offline or a LinkedIn restriction, sending stays on hold until someone clicks Resume sending. Invites then restart gently:

Days after resuming	Invites a day
Days 1 to 3	5
Days 4 to 7	10
Week 2	15
After that	Normal limits

Working hours

A message goes out only when the campaign’s schedule and the sender’s rules both allow it.

Rule	Hours
A campaign’s schedule	The days and hours you set in Schedule
A new campaign, when you saved Sending hours in Settings › Safety	Starts with those hours. Campaigns that already exist keep their own.
A campaign with no saved schedule	The sender’s own window: Monday to Thursday 09:00 to 18:00, Friday 09:00 to 13:00
Weekend pause on the sender	Blocks weekends, even if the campaign’s schedule includes them

The time zone used is the campaign’s if you set one, then the person’s, then the sender’s.

How invites are kept low

Rule	Default	Where to change it
Withdraw invites nobody accepted	After 14 days	Unanswered invites in Settings › Safety: 7, 14, 21 or 30 days. A step can set its own, from 1 to 60.
Most pending invites per sender	600. Above this we withdraw the oldest first.	Settings › Safety, from 50 to 1000

When LinkedIn says stop

If LinkedIn refuses more connection requests from an account, the sender rests for 24 hours. Its status says Resting. Invites wait until then, and other steps carry on.

If the sender’s monthly allowance for invite notes runs out, later invites go without a note until it resets.

Pause or remove a sender

Button	What happens
Pause sender	It sends nothing until you resume it. Nothing is lost.
Resume sender	It starts sending again.
Reconnect	Shows when the sign-in expired. Nothing sends until you do this, and campaigns wait.
Disconnect…	Removes its sign-in, after you type its name. It leaves its campaigns, and people assigned to it wait instead of moving to another sender. People and history stay, and you can connect it again later.

Senders can also be paused for you. See Safety pauses.

Only owners and admins can change the settings in Settings › Safety.

Related

Safety pauses

Sender and campaign auto-pauses.

Upcoming sends

See these limits at work, with reasons.

Connect LinkedIn

Add an account to send from.