---
title: "LinkedIn delivery and limits"
description: "Understand messages that need attention and how Finlay paces outreach from your LinkedIn account."
plans: ["source"]
roles: ["hiring-manager","recruiter"]
url: https://help.finlay.ai/outreach/linkedin-delivery-and-limits/
lastReviewed: 2026-10-05
---

# LinkedIn delivery and limits

Understand messages that need attention and how Finlay paces outreach from your LinkedIn account.

This page helps when a LinkedIn message from a manual outreach batch needs
attention. For Finlay-managed first contact and candidate replies, see
[Automated outreach](https://help.finlay.ai/outreach/automated-outreach/).

## When a message does not go out

On jobs where you do the outreach from your own LinkedIn, a message that does
not go out says why in the candidate's status:

| Status              | What it means                                                                            | What to do                                        |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| **Session expired** | Finlay cannot send until you sign in to LinkedIn again.                                  | Reconnect LinkedIn. Nothing is lost.              |
| **Not accepted**    | A temporary error on LinkedIn's side.                                                    | Resend once. If it fails again, Finlay tells you. |
| **Weekly limit**    | Your account reached LinkedIn's weekly invitation limit.                                 | Resend once the week is up.                       |
| **Unreachable**     | The profile was removed or made private after sourcing.                                  | Nothing. Finlay will not try again.               |
| **Skipped**         | The candidate replied or moved on before a follow-up was due, so Finlay did not send it. | Nothing.                                          |

Finlay does not retry a message LinkedIn refused because of its weekly limit.
Resend it from the candidate row when the limit resets. Other failed outreach
can be resent from the candidate's **Outreach** stage.

## If your LinkedIn session expired

Reconnect from [Integrations](https://help.finlay.ai/integrations/linkedin/). Outreach cannot send
until the connection is restored. Messages that failed in the last two weeks
are sent after you reconnect.

## Daily and weekly caps

Finlay caps invitations and messages for each connected LinkedIn account each
day and week. Queued messages send as capacity becomes available.