> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.pipelime.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # LinkedIn action limits, schedule and ramp-up > Why a new LinkedIn account sends less than its limit, what each action cap means, and how the sending window works. export const Screenshot = ({id, alt, caption, frame = 'browser', url, marks = [], lang = 'en', workspace = 'northwind-outbound'}) => { const src = `/images/screenshots/${lang}/${id}.png`; const chrome = url ? `app.pipelime.ai/${workspace}${url}` : 'app.pipelime.ai'; return

; }; A LinkedIn account carries a daily and a weekly cap on each of the four kinds of activity its settings page controls: connection requests, messages, InMail and profile views. A newly connected account is held below those numbers and steps up to them over its first weeks, because starting at full volume on day one is one of the strongest signals LinkedIn uses to spot an automated account.

Where

Integrations→LinkedIn Account

Your role needs

Read access to LinkedIn Account read-linkedin-accounts. Admin, Member and Viewer have it by default.

To create or change

create-linkedin-accounts to add one, update-linkedin-accounts to change one, on top of the permission above.

Your plan

Needs at least one seat for LinkedIn accounts.

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## How it behaves ### Four action types, each with a recommended value and a hard limit The **Action Limits** step on an account's settings page lists four cards (**Connection Requests**, **Messages**, **InMail** and **Profile Views**), each with a **Daily Limit** and a **Weekly Limit** field. The two numbers behind each field come from the account's own type (**LinkedIn Basic**, **LinkedIn Premium**, **Sales Navigator** or **LinkedIn Recruiter**), and the type is read from the LinkedIn account itself when it connects, not something you pick. Under every field is a helper line naming a recommended value and a hard limit (1). The fields arrive already filled with the recommended value for the type that was detected, and a field you empty falls back to that same value. The hard limit is a ceiling rather than a suggestion: a bigger number is rejected, and the form will not save until you bring it back down. Basic tops out at 25 connection requests a day; Sales Navigator goes up to 45. **InMail** is the one exception (2): on a Basic account its **Daily Limit** and **Weekly Limit** fields are disabled, and the card carries a **Not available on Basic** chip in place of the usual limits. Premium, Sales Navigator and Recruiter accounts all have an InMail allowance. Whatever number ends up in effect (yours, or the recommended value behind a field you left empty) is what the ramp-up below scales down while the account is new. It is not only the recommended figure that shrinks. Reactions and comments on leads' posts draw on caps from the same table, for agents set up to do them. Those two have no fields on this screen. The same step also sets a **Delay Between Actions**, in seconds: **Min Delay (seconds)** and **Max Delay (seconds)**. After a profile view, an invitation or a message, the account starts a pause of a length drawn from that range, and the next action of any kind waits for the pause to run out. ### New accounts step up to their limits over three weeks A LinkedIn account does not run at those numbers from the day it connects. It starts at a fraction of them and climbs in steps, and the last step (full volume) arrives before the three weeks are up. While it is ramping, a banner at the top of the account's page says the account is warming up, which day of the ramp it is on out of 21 (1), what percentage of the limits below it is sending at, and how far through it is (2). The accounts list shows the same percentage as a small warming-up chip on that account's row. Because the final step is full volume, an account can read 100% in that banner and still be counted as warming up. Once day 21 has passed the banner disappears for good and the numbers on the cards apply in full. They are ceilings, not targets: the volume actually planned for a given day is drawn below the daily limit, so even a fully ramped account usually stops short of it. The scale-down never rounds a live action type down to zero. Any limit above zero stays at a minimum of one action a day, however early in the ramp the account is. InMail on a Basic account is the exception, because its limit is zero to begin with. ### Fewer than 150 connections pauses new outreach An account with fewer than 150 connections has too thin a network to be doing cold outreach, so it stops picking up new leads: the profile view that opens a new lead never happens. Replies and follow-ups in conversations that are already running are untouched. The account shows a **Low connections** chip in the list and a warning on its own page saying the same thing: outreach to new leads is paused until the network grows, replies to existing conversations still send. A connection count that has never been read is not treated as low; only a known count under 150 holds anything back. ### Actions queue instead of firing immediately When an agent works a new lead it views the lead's profile first and sends the connection request in a later run, hours after that view rather than straight afterwards. An invitation nobody accepts does not stay open forever either: once it is 14 days old the account withdraws it, and the lead lands on **Withdrawn**, the last of the five stages on the account's **Automation Pipeline** card, after **Warming Up**, **Invited**, **Connected** and **Messaging**. Those five stages belong to that card. They are not the lead's own stage. That 14 days is a default you can change for the whole workspace, alongside the other LinkedIn timings, under [workspace-wide pacing](/en/ai-agents/campaign-pacing-settings). ### The schedule decides which hours the account acts in The **Schedule** step on the same settings page holds an **Account timezone** and a grid of the days and hours the account may act in. Those windows are wall-clock times in that time zone, never your browser's, so the hours you set are the hours the account works. A schedule is not optional in practice. Campaign automation only picks up an account whose own local time falls inside one of its windows, and a queued LinkedIn action checks the same thing before it fires, so an account left with no windows at all never acts. That is why one is created for it when it connects: Monday to Friday, a morning block and an afternoon block, yours to change. Once an active account has a schedule, its row in the accounts list gets a calendar button in the **Schedule** column. It opens today's actual slots: the specific times the account plans to act, not the blocks you set. Those appear as a 24-hour dial (1) beside a list of those times (2), invitation slots and message slots in separate colours, with the next one still to come marked apart from the rest. The dial and the time list, including the label marking the next slot, are shown in English on every language setting. Only the status line underneath, when one shows, is translated. ### Even a fully ramped account can sit out a day On top of the caps and the ramp, an account takes the odd day off at random: no profile views, no invitations, no messages that day. It is why a healthy, fully ramped account can show zero actions on an ordinary working day; on a day like that the schedule popover reports no time windows for today at all. That is the pattern doing its job, not an error. ## Limits | | | | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Metered on the settings page | Connection requests, messages, InMail, profile views: each with its own daily and weekly cap. Post reactions and comments are capped too, without fields here | | InMail | Not available on Basic; allowed from Premium up | | Connection-request ceiling | 25 a day on Basic, up to 45 on Sales Navigator | | Minimum connections for outreach | 150: below that the account stops picking up new leads; replies still send | | Ramp-up | Runs to day 21 after connecting; the last step restores full volume before that | | Unanswered invitation | Withdrawn once it is 14 days old: a workspace-wide setting, 14 days by default | | Schedule | Required in practice: an account with no windows never acts. One is created when it connects | | Random day off | A small chance on any day, ramped or not | ## Related Set up the account these limits and this ramp-up apply to. Where the messages this page's limits govern actually show up. How an agent's LinkedIn budget is read from this account's limits and ramp step. The equivalent schedule and pacing mechanics on the email side.