Once you've started a campaign in Botdog, you can't add or remove steps from the sequence. However, you can edit the message content within existing steps.
✅ What you can do
Edit the text of your messages in existing steps
Update your connection request message
Modify follow-up message content
Add or remove people from a sequence
Change the timing between steps
❌ What you can't do
Add new steps to the sequence
Remove steps from the sequence
Why we designed it this way
We built Botdog to keep things simple and protect your campaign data. Preventing from adding/removing steps after a campaign is created seems to us the better choice, because it allows different things:
Analytics integrity: If you could add or remove steps mid-campaign, your performance metrics would get messy. For example, if you removed step 3 from a campaign that already sent 100 messages at that step, your stats would be all over the place, you wouldn't know who's at what stage, etc.
Cleaner user experience: In practice, we found that letting users edit sequences mid-flight created more confusion than it solved. You'd have some contacts at step 2, others at step 4, and suddenly adding a new step 3 would create chaos. If you add a new final step to the campaign. What about people who already completed the campaign, should they go through that step too? Even if they completed it months ago?
Data consistency: When you run a campaign, we track every action. Changing the structure retroactively would make it impossible to understand what worked and what didn't.
What to do instead
If you want to change your sequence structure, just create a new campaign. It takes less than 3 minutes to set up (and you can duplicate an existing campaign), and you'll start with clean analytics from day one.
Need to fix a typo?
If you just spotted a typo or want to improve your messaging, go ahead and edit the message text directly. That won't mess with your analytics or campaign structure—it's the safest edit you can make.
Still have questions? Reach out to our support team—we're here to help!