How connecting LinkedIn works

Flow sends from real LinkedIn accounts — yours and your team’s — so outreach always comes from a genuine person. Every account you connect gets its own private, dedicated connection and is paced like a human, so it stays safe. Here’s how connecting works, what to do if LinkedIn asks for a code, and how accounts stay healthy.

Connecting an account

Each person connects their own LinkedIn, so outreach always sends as them. Open Settings → Team, find your row, and click Click to connect in the LinkedIn column. New teammates do this when they accept their invite, and admins can connect an account for a teammate too.

You’ll sign in to LinkedIn once in a secure connection window, using your LinkedIn email and password. From then on Flow holds a secure session for your account, so you don’t sign in again each day. When it’s done, your status shows Connected, with your LinkedIn seat type (Classic, Sales Nav or Recruiter). Your password is only ever used to establish that session — Flow signs in as you and nothing more.

Settings → Team with the LinkedIn column circled, showing Connected · Sales Nav, Didn’t connect and Click to connect — Each account’s LinkedIn status shows in **Settings → Team**.

A private, dedicated connection

Every account you connect gets its own private, dedicated IP address, matched to your location. Flow always reaches LinkedIn from that same address, so LinkedIn sees a consistent person signing in from a consistent place — just like you logging in from your own computer. Accounts are never bundled onto a shared connection, and yours isn’t mixed in with anyone else’s.

That consistency is a big part of why accounts stay in good standing: there are no sudden jumps between countries or devices that would make LinkedIn suspicious. It’s all handled for you — there’s nothing to set up.

If LinkedIn asks for a code

During the connection, LinkedIn may ask you to confirm it’s really you — with a one-time code by text, email or your authenticator app, an in-app approval, or a quick security check (like a puzzle). Complete it in the connection window just as you would when signing in normally.

Do it promptly: these codes are only valid for a few minutes. If one isn’t entered in time the connection won’t finish, and you can simply start again.

Tip: turn on two-step verification in authenticator app mode on LinkedIn. It’s the safest option, and it lets Flow restore your connection smoothly on its own if a session ever drops — usually with nothing for you to do.

Staying safe and within limits

Flow paces every action like a person. It works only during working hours (9:00 AM–6:00 PM in each account’s local timezone), spaces actions out at random, and keeps each account to 15 connection requests, 80 profile visits and 80 post likes a day. New accounts warm up, starting at 3 requests a day and building to 15 over 13 days.

Flow never posts or comments on its own. For the full picture, including what to do if LinkedIn ever restricts an account, see LinkedIn safety and limits.

Reconnecting an account

Flow keeps your session alive in the background, so most of the time there’s nothing to do. Every so often LinkedIn ends a session, after a password change, a sign-in from a new device, or a routine security check. When that happens, the account shows Click to connect (or Didn’t connect, with the reason) in Settings → Team, and a banner in the app offers Reconnect LinkedIn.

Click it and sign in again, entering a code if LinkedIn asks. While an account is disconnected its outreach pauses, and it picks up where it left off once you’re back. With authenticator-app two-step verification switched on, Flow can often reconnect on its own.

Signed up to LinkedIn with Google? Your LinkedIn account may have no password. Set one on LinkedIn with Forgot password, then connect with your email and that password.
“This LinkedIn account is already connected to another seat” means it’s on a different seat in Flow. Disconnect it there first.
Using another LinkedIn tool on the same account? Two tools can knock each other’s sessions out. Disconnect the other one.

Still dropping? See Troubleshooting.

Multiple people, multiple accounts

Because every teammate connects their own profile, you can run outreach from several accounts at once — each seat is one connected LinkedIn, each with its own dedicated connection. Add people, see who’s connected, and manage seats in Settings → Team. To set up your profile and team, see Account setup; for how sending from several accounts works day to day, see Multi-senders.

Connected? Head back to the Quickstart to find leads and run your first outreach.