Connect LinkedIn
Connect your LinkedIn so Revnu can send connection requests and messages as you, at a safe pace in working hours, and read your replies. What it does with your account, how fast, connecting on a phone, teammates' accounts, and read-only mode.
Once LinkedIn is connected, Revnu sends connection requests and messages from your own account, as you. It reads your replies so it can follow up.
It sends at a pace that keeps your account safe: 5 invites a day in your first week, rising to at most 17 a day from week four. It sends on weekdays, between 9:00 and 18:00 in your time zone. During a free trial, up to 3 invites a day also go out on Saturday and Sunday, in the same hours.
LinkedIn is optional: Revnu runs outreach by email on its own too. If you want Revnu to see your LinkedIn messages but never send, connect it and turn on read-only mode.
How do I connect LinkedIn?
Open Connections
In the dashboard, open Connections and find the Reach People group.
Press Connect on LinkedIn DMs
Press Connect on the LinkedIn DMs row.
Confirm the note
Read the Before You Connect LinkedIn note, tick the box and press Connect LinkedIn.
Sign in to LinkedIn
Sign in on the screen that opens. LinkedIn may ask for a code, or a check in the LinkedIn app.
Check the row
You land back on Connections. The row says Connected and your name.
Revnu notices the new connection by itself and picks up any approved LinkedIn work that was waiting. You don't need to tell it.
Note
LinkedIn Ads is a different row. It's in Connections > Advertise and is for paid campaigns. See connect LinkedIn Ads.
If your email sending has stopped, LinkedIn can carry outreach while you fix it. Connect it here, then add LinkedIn steps to the campaign you already have. See move an email campaign to LinkedIn and why emails aren't sending.
Can I connect LinkedIn from my phone?
Yes. Open revnu.com/dashboard/connections in your phone's browser, sign in to Revnu, and follow the same steps. If Revnu sent you the Connections link in iMessage or Slack, tap it.
LinkedIn opened its app and never came back
On a phone, LinkedIn may ask you to confirm the sign-in in the LinkedIn app. Your phone jumps to the app, and it may never bring you back to Revnu. If that happens:
Finish the check in the LinkedIn app.
Switch back to your browser. If the LinkedIn sign-in screen is still open there, finish it.
Open revnu.com/dashboard/connections again and look at the LinkedIn DMs row.
It worked when the row says Connected. If the page says "Finishing your LinkedIn connection", wait a moment. It updates by itself once the connection is verified.
If it says "LinkedIn did not finish connecting", the attempt expired, or the row still says Not Connected, tap Connect once more. You can also ask Revnu "is my LinkedIn connected?".
What does Revnu do with my LinkedIn account?
With LinkedIn connected, Revnu can:
Send connection requests, with or without a note
Message people who have accepted, and reply inside existing conversations
Read your LinkedIn messages, so replies show up in Inbox > LinkedIn
Look up profiles before it contacts someone
Your feed and profile stay yours. Revnu writes post drafts and you publish them yourself. See social posts.
Connecting keeps you in control. Revnu sends what you've approved: a sequence you approved, or a one-off invite or message under your approval settings.
How fast does it send?
At the pace that keeps your account safe. A new account starts at 5 invites and 10 messages a day, and the limits rise each week for four weeks. Actions are spread through working hours, at most 8 an hour. Everything goes out on weekdays between 9:00 and 18:00 in your time zone, plus up to 3 invites a day at weekends during a free trial. The full table is on LinkedIn limits and account safety.
These limits stay on for every account, so yours always has that protection.
How does Revnu keep my LinkedIn account safe?
Revnu uses your LinkedIn at the pace a busy person would:
Low daily and weekly caps that ramp up over your first month.
Human hours only, on weekdays, in your time zone. During a free trial, a few invites also go out at weekends.
Spread through working hours, within hourly caps, with totals that vary the way a real person's do.
A full stop for at least 72 hours the moment LinkedIn pushes back. See why LinkedIn sending stopped.
Tip
Want Revnu to read your LinkedIn but never send? Use read-only mode, below. You can also skip LinkedIn and run email only.
How do I stop Revnu sending on LinkedIn but keep reading?
Switch off LinkedIn Sending in Settings > Agent. The card then starts with "Read-only".
For a quick pause, you can also just tell Revnu:
Don't send anything on LinkedIn until I say so.
The switch is the firm version: only a person can turn it back on.
Revnu still reads your LinkedIn conversations and looks up profiles, and you still see them in Inbox > LinkedIn. It never sends, invites or withdraws anything, including the LinkedIn steps of a sequence you already approved.
When Revnu would have sent something, it says so in its reply wherever you talk to it (iMessage, Slack or the dashboard chat), and gives you the exact message to send yourself on LinkedIn. One-off sends aren't queued for later, so nothing surprises you when sending comes back on.
The switch holds:
It covers the whole workspace. Every teammate's LinkedIn account is read-only, not just yours.
Replies you type yourself still send. If you write a reply in Inbox > LinkedIn, it goes out. Read-only stops Revnu writing as you, nothing more.
What happens to invites and sequence steps already waiting?
A one-off invite or message already waiting in Review stays unsent while read-only is on, even if you approve it. A sequence's LinkedIn steps wait too: switch sending back on and each person carries on from their next step.
LinkedIn's sign-in screen says the connection can send messages
LinkedIn's own sign-in screen lists what the connection is allowed to do, such as reading and sending messages. Those boxes describe the connection. The LinkedIn Sending switch is what controls sending.
Can Revnu list all my connections or pending invites?
Revnu checks one person at a time. Ask about someone by name and it tells you whether you're connected and whether an invite is pending.
Can a teammate connect their own LinkedIn?
Yes, and it adds capacity. Each person on your team can connect one LinkedIn account, called a seat, with its own daily limits. A teammate's seat can send a sequence's LinkedIn steps, and the one-off invites and messages you ask for by name.
Add them to your team
Add them in Settings > Account > Team. See add teammates.
They sign in as themselves
They sign in to Revnu from their own login.
They connect their own LinkedIn
They open Connections > Reach People > LinkedIn DMs, confirm the note themselves and connect.
Each person connects, reconnects and disconnects their own LinkedIn, the account owner included, so the LinkedIn DMs row on Connections shows your own account.
Each seat has its own limits and its own four-week ramp. Two seats don't share one daily allowance, so a second seat doubles what you can send. Each sequence sends from one seat, so split people across two sequences to use both.
Which account sends a campaign?
Each sequence sends its LinkedIn steps from one seat. When only one person has connected LinkedIn, it's theirs. Otherwise it's the account owner's, unless you name someone else. Tell Revnu in chat, for example "send the agency sequence from Sam's LinkedIn". Changing only the sender keeps the sequence approved. When several teammates are connected and the owner isn't, Revnu asks you who should send before it starts. Someone a seat has already reached stays with that seat, so their follow-ups come from the same person.
For one-off sends, a teammate's seat is used when you ask for it in chat. For example, "send Priya a connection request from Sam's LinkedIn" sends that one invite from Sam's account. In Inbox > LinkedIn, pick whose conversations to read.
What happens when a teammate is removed?
When a teammate is removed in Settings > Account > Team, their LinkedIn leaves with them. Their connection is removed and nothing else sends from their account.
A one-off invite or message that was meant to go from their seat, such as a card still waiting in Review, needs a new sender. Ask Revnu to send it from your own LinkedIn. The same goes for sequence steps due from their seat: tell Revnu whose LinkedIn should send that sequence now.
Does Revnu use my LinkedIn to find leads?
Revnu finds leads in its own database of companies and the people who work at them, so your LinkedIn account isn't needed for it. Many of those leads carry a LinkedIn profile link, which is how the same people can be reached on LinkedIn later. Nothing happens on your LinkedIn until you connect it, and nothing sends until you approve it. See how Revnu finds leads.
If it doesn't work
| What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
| The row says Needs Reconnect | LinkedIn sessions end after a password change or a security check. Press Reconnect and sign in again, with the same LinkedIn account you connected before |
| The row says Paused | LinkedIn pushed back, so Revnu stopped. The row shows why and when sending can resume. See why LinkedIn sending stopped |
| The row says LinkedIn access is locked or recovering | Revnu handles this. No reconnect needed: sending picks up once it clears |
| On a phone, LinkedIn opened its app and never came back | Finish the check in the app, then reopen revnu.com/dashboard/connections in your browser. If the row isn't Connected, tap Connect again |
| The row says each person connects their own LinkedIn from their own login | You're signed in as someone else, or viewing another account. Sign in as yourself |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is it safe to connect my LinkedIn to Revnu?
Revnu is built to keep your account safe. It uses small caps that ramp up over a month, weekday working hours only and human pacing, and it stops for at least 72 hours if LinkedIn pushes back. If you'd rather it never sends, use read-only mode or email only.
What is Unipile?
It's the service Revnu uses to connect your LinkedIn. If you see it in your LinkedIn sign-ins, that's Revnu, and signing it out there disconnects LinkedIn from Revnu until you reconnect.
Can I connect LinkedIn just to read my messages?
Yes. Connect it, then switch off LinkedIn Sending in Settings > Agent. Revnu reads your conversations but never sends, and only a person can switch sending back on.
Can two people on my team use their own LinkedIn?
Yes. Each teammate connects their own account from their own login, and each account has its own limits. Each sequence sends from one of them: tell Revnu whose LinkedIn should send it. One-off sends work the same way, such as "send Priya a connection request from Sam's LinkedIn".
Can my cofounder's LinkedIn send our sequence?
Yes. Your cofounder connects their own LinkedIn from their own login, then tell Revnu to send the sequence from their account. If theirs is the only LinkedIn connected, Revnu uses it without asking.
If I switch on read-only, where do the messages Revnu would have sent go?
Into its reply to you, in iMessage, Slack or the dashboard chat, as text you can send yourself on LinkedIn, so what goes out is up to you.
Do I need LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator?
No. Revnu works with a free account. LinkedIn gives free accounts a few connection notes a month, which is one reason Revnu sends invites without a note by default.
Will Revnu post on my LinkedIn?
Revnu writes your post drafts and gives you a share link, and you publish them yourself, so every post goes out by your hand. With LinkedIn connected, Revnu sends invites and messages.
I connected LinkedIn on my phone but it didn't come back. Did it work?
Check the LinkedIn DMs row on revnu.com/dashboard/connections. If it says Connected, it worked. If not, finish the check in the LinkedIn app and tap Connect once more.