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🧬 Duplicating an Auto DM Automation

Explains how to duplicate an Auto DM automation, including what carries over, fresh tracking, offer handling, when duplication isn't allowed, and that cancelling leaves nothing changed.

🧬 Why duplicate an automation?

Each automation card has a Duplicate action. It opens a copy of that automation so you can keep the message and settings and just enter new keywords, instead of rebuilding everything from scratch.

📋 What carries over

The duplicate keeps the same message, follow-up messages, quick replies, public reply setting, follower gate, selected posts, button text and branding toggle. It starts with new keywords, and you'll see a notice that this is a new automation and your original stays unchanged.

📊 Fresh tracking

The new automation starts with zero sends, zero clicks and zero not-sent statistics. Its tracking is completely separate from the original.

Duplicating also generates a new, untracked link for the offer on the copy, so clicks and attribution on the duplicate are tracked separately from the original automation.

🔗 If the offer is missing

If the original automation's linked offer is missing or unavailable, you'll need to pick a replacement offer, or explicitly remove the original offer from the copy, before you can save the duplicate.

🚫 When you can't duplicate

If the automation has conversation settings that aren't available on your account, you won't be able to duplicate it. You'll see a notice explaining that it can't be duplicated safely.

🛠️ How to duplicate an automation

  1. Go to your Automations list.

  2. Find the automation you want to copy and select Duplicate on its card.

  3. Enter new keywords for the copy.

  4. If the linked offer is missing or unavailable, choose a replacement offer or remove the original offer from the copy.

  5. Save the duplicate as a draft, or save and go live.

You can cancel out of the duplicate editor at any point. Nothing gets created, and your original automation is never changed.

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