Controlling Outreach Volume with Account Limits and Warm-Up Settings
Last updated: October 28, 2026
Successful outreach all comes down to consistency and safety, not volume spikes. Account Limits and Warm-up settings help you scale activity gradually while staying within platform best practices.
This article explains how to manage daily limits, boosters, and warm-up rules so your campaigns run smoothly.
Account Limits Overview
The Account Limits section acts as your control center for daily outreach activity. Here, you can decide whether to:
Run campaigns on weekends
Enable Connection Requests Booster™
Enable InMails Booster
Use Instant Searches – fetches all search results at once instead of gradually, but increases the risk of account restriction. Note: Instant Searches is temporarily unavailable for Basic Social Accounts. For Basic accounts, searches are paced automatically throughout the day.
Each feature can be turned on or off depending on your outreach strategy.
⭐ Tip: Click Best Practices in this section to see recommendations for maximizing results safely.
Warm-up Settings
Moving down, you will see the Warm-up mode setting. By toggling it on, you can set the minimum and maximum number of steps and actions performed daily during the initial account setup phase, as well as the daily increment of their volume, allowing for a gradual ramp-up of activity. Once the maximum number is reached, the setting will no longer increase, and only the set maximum of actions and steps will be executed — for example, 30.
Limits Per Day
In the Limits per day section, you can set activity ranges for each action type. These limits are shared across all campaigns in your Social Account, not applied individually.
Note: Prospect addition from search sources happens gradually during your operating hours. For Basic Social Accounts, search pacing is handled automatically at a few pages per day, and the Pages Searched setting cannot be used to speed this up. Instant Searches is also temporarily unavailable for Basic Social Accounts.
For Sales Navigator accounts, search pacing may allow a slightly higher daily range. If Instant Searches is available and enabled, search results may be fetched faster, but this can increase the risk of account restriction.
Available Limits
Profile Views – number of profiles viewed per day
Connection Requests – number sent per day
Messages – messages sent per day
Messages after connection requests are only sent once the request is accepted
InMails – InMails sent per day
Pages Searched – pages searched per day
This controls how many search pages can be processed from search-based sources.
For Basic Social Accounts, searches are paced automatically at a few pages per day. The setting tile shows Unlimited, but this does not mean Basic searches will run all at once.
For Sales Navigator accounts, searches may be paced a
For Sales Navigator accounts, searches may be paced at a slightly higher daily range.
When Instant Searches is available and enabled, the regular daily pacing is ignored and search results are fetched faster.
Campaigns may stop pulling additional prospects from search while there are 80 or more prospects waiting in the campaign.
Event Invites – invites sent per day
Comments – comments left per day
SMS – SMS messages sent per day (currently unavailable)
Voicemails – voicemails sent per day
Your daily limits only apply to automated steps. For example, if you decide to manually send a connection request or a message to your prospect, your daily limit won't be spent.
At the bottom of the section, you can also limit InMails sent via your Social Sales Navigator account.
Troubleshooting Low Outreach Despite Configured Limits
When you have lists loaded and limits configured but are experiencing unexpectedly low outreach volume, several critical factors beyond basic limit settings can be the cause. This guide addresses common edge cases and dependencies that can bottleneck your campaigns.
Operating Hours Enforcement
Critical: Accounts outside their configured operating hours will not perform any outreach actions, regardless of their limit settings or available prospects. This is a hard stop that overrides all other configurations. Ensure your operating hours align with when you expect campaigns to run, as this is often the cause of zero outreach when everything else appears configured correctly.
Search Source Pacing and Waiting Prospects
Search-based sources do not always pull all prospects immediately when a campaign launches. For Basic Social Accounts, searches are paced automatically at a few pages per day, and Instant Searches is temporarily unavailable. The Pages Searched tile may show Unlimited, but this does not mean Basic accounts can fetch unlimited search pages immediately.
Campaigns can also pause pulling new prospects from search when there are 80 or more prospects waiting. If prospects are not being added from search, check whether the campaign already has a large waiting queue before adjusting limits.
Warm-Up Lower Bounds Impact
During warm-up, setting a lower bound of 0 for any action type, such as Messages, means that action will not be performed until the warm-up daily increment raises it above 0. Your actual daily outreach will be constrained by the current warm-up range, not your maximum limits. If you need immediate message sending during warm-up, set the lower bound to at least 1.
Profile Views Dependency Without Boosters
Profile views are consumed before sending connection requests and InMails. If your profile view limit is exhausted, connection requests and InMails may be blocked unless you enable the Connection Request Booster or InMails Booster, which bypasses the profile view requirement. This dependency can create unexpected bottlenecks when profile view limits are set too low relative to connection request volumes.
Booster Settings for Maximum Throughput
Enable Connection Request Booster and InMails Booster to maximize throughput and bypass profile view requirements. Without these boosters, your connection request and InMail volume will be limited by your profile view allocation, which may be insufficient for your outreach goals.
Quick Diagnostic Checklist
When troubleshooting low outreach volume:
Verify operating hours — Check that accounts are within configured hours when sends should occur.
Review warm-up lower bounds — Ensure no critical actions have lower bounds set to 0.
Check profile view allocation — Verify sufficient profile views for connection requests and InMails if boosters are disabled.
Consider enabling boosters — Use Connection Request and InMails Boosters to remove profile view dependencies.
Confirm warm-up phase — Remember that warm-up limits override maximum daily limits until completion.
Check search pacing — Basic Social Accounts search automatically at a few pages per day, even if Pages Searched shows Unlimited.
Check waiting prospects — Campaigns may stop pulling from search while 80 or more prospects are waiting.
Confirm Instant Searches availability — Instant Searches is temporarily unavailable for Basic Social Accounts.
By setting clear limits and using warm-up controls, you protect your account while scaling outreach responsibly. These settings help you work efficiently — even as your campaigns grow.