Daily limits and account safety

LinkedIn rewards accounts that behave like real people and pushes back against accounts that don’t. Funkel paces sends with tier-aware weekly limits, but it’s worth understanding the budget so you can set campaigns with intent.

Defaults

Funkel derives sender defaults from the LinkedIn account tier we know about:

• Basic or unknown: 120 invites and 100 messages per week
• Premium: 150 invites and 120 messages per week
• Sales Navigator or Recruiter: 175 invites and 150 messages per week

Regardless of overrides, LinkedIn senders are clamped at 200 invites and 200 messages per week. New senders ramp into their budget over fourteen days after the first successful outbound send.

How pacing works

Funkel turns a weekly limit into a daily budget over your campaign’s active days (typically Monday-Friday). When more leads are ready than today’s budget allows, the extras roll into tomorrow. Sends are jittered between 30 and 180 seconds apart, with extra spacing during warmup. Funkel never crams a day to clear a queue.

Per-campaign overrides

Inside a campaign’s Settings you can lower the invite or message budget below the sender default. Useful when one sender runs several campaigns and you want a small one to take only a slice of the daily budget.

What pauses outreach automatically

• The lead replies, all remaining steps in their workflow are canceled.
• The weekly cap is hit, sends resume the next week.
• A failed payment passes day 3 of grace, agents pause until billing is fixed.

What you should still do manually

• Don’t connect a brand-new LinkedIn account and run it at full pace. Aim for ~30% of the cap for the first two weeks.
• If LinkedIn shows a warning or temporary restriction, pause your campaigns immediately and let the account rest for at least 7 days.
• Use Funkel as one channel, not your only one. Real engagement on LinkedIn (posts, comments, profile views) keeps your account looking healthy.