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Automation Safety Limits

Set specific safety limits to avoid sending too many messages to your contacts

Updated over a month ago

The safety limits in HireData ensure that your automations donโ€™t overwhelm your contacts by preventing excessive messaging. This feature helps maintain a balanced and professional outreach process while minimising errors. Continue reading our guide for a comprehensive breakdown of the different safety limits and learn how to use them.

Breakdown of the Safety Limits

1. Email Send Limits

  • Definition: Limits the number of emails that can be sent to a single email address

  • Purpose: Prevents overloading a contact's inbox and avoids emails being flagged as spam

  • Fully customisable

Email send limits

2. Conversation Send Limits

  • Definition: Limits the number of conversations initiated per phone number

  • Purpose: Control outreach frequency to avoid excessive messages and potential contact fatigue

  • Fully customisable

Conversation send limits

3. Conversation First Interaction Timeout

  • Definition: Sets a timeout for the first reply in a conversation after the initial message is sent

  • Purpose: Cancel tasks if no response is received within the specified timeframe, ensuring the process doesn't slow down the automation

  • Fully customisable

Conversation first interaction timeout

4. Conversation Next Reply Timeout

  • Definition: Specifies a timeout for the following replies within a conversation

  • Purpose: Ensures timely responses in ongoing conversations and prevents tasks from lingering indefinitely

  • Fully customisable

Conversation next reply timeout

How to Adjust Your Safety Limits

  1. Navigate to the Safety Limits section in HireData

    Safety Limits section

  2. Adjust the limits according to your outreach strategy

    • Use the dropdown menu to set the frequency (e.g., per day/week/month/quarter/half year/ year) of each setting

      Adjusting the limits

    • Enter the maximum allowed messages or timeouts

  3. Click the [Save] button to apply your changes

Saving the safety limits

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