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# Can I edit a sequence after it's created?

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](https://help.botdog.co/en/articles/12111694-how-to-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.

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