Overview
You may sometimes notice that a LinkedIn message or invitation in your conversations looks like it was sent outside the working hours you configured in LaGrowthMachine.
No worries — this is not a bug.
Key benefits
Clear understanding of how LinkedIn displays send times
Less confusion when messages appear outside your working hours
Confidence knowing this behavior comes from LinkedIn, not LGM
What you need to know
The displayed time depends on acceptance, not sending
LinkedIn shows the time when an invitation is accepted, not when it was actually sent.
For example:
If you send an invitation on Monday at 10:00 AM, but your prospect accepts it on Saturday at 11:00 PM, LinkedIn will display 11:00 PM as the send time in the conversation.
Important: This can make it look like the message was sent outside your working hours, even though it was sent correctly.
Invitations already sent remain active
If you stop a campaign or change an identity, invitations that were already sent are not canceled.
They stay pending until the prospect accepts them.
Once accepted, the invitation note appears in the conversation at that moment.
The invitation note only becomes visible upon acceptance
This is a LinkedIn-specific rule.
Until the connection request is accepted, the invitation note is hidden. It only appears once the prospect accepts the request.
In short
This behavior can feel confusing (we get it 😅), but it’s entirely due to how LinkedIn works behind the scenes.
Note: This is not an issue or malfunction on LaGrowthMachine.
Tip: clean up pending invitations
You can easily delete unaccepted invitations directly from your LinkedIn account.
👉 Go to Manage sent invitations to keep things clean and under control.
FAQs
Why does LinkedIn show a send time outside my LGM working hours?
Why does LinkedIn show a send time outside my LGM working hours?
Because LinkedIn displays the time the invitation was accepted, not the actual send time.
Does LGM send messages outside my configured working hours?
Does LGM send messages outside my configured working hours?
No. LGM always respects the working hours you configure when sending messages and invitations.
What happens if I stop a campaign after invitations are sent?
What happens if I stop a campaign after invitations are sent?
Invitations that were already sent remain active until they are accepted or manually removed.
How can I prevent very old invitations from reappearing?
How can I prevent very old invitations from reappearing?
Regularly delete pending invitations from the Manage sent invitations section on LinkedIn.