Does an automation send messages without me?
Updated 31 October 2026
The Short Answer
Only if you set it to Send Automatically. The other three levels stop for you: Notify Only tells you someone is due, Confirm Before Drafting asks before writing, and Approve Before Sending writes the drafts and waits. New automations, and all 35 on Browse, start on Confirm Before Drafting.
One setting decides it, and you set it on each step of the sequence.
What are the four levels?
The four levels, what each one does, and what PropKaki asks you on Telegram or WhatsApp — the channel under on for that step:
| Level | What happens | What it asks you |
|---|---|---|
| Notify Only | You’re told someone is due — nothing is written unless you ask for it. | …that's Mrs Lim, Ryan and 4 others today. Want me to draft? Draft Them |
| Confirm Before Drafting | It asks you first, and writes the drafts when you say go. | …Shall I draft? Draft Them · Not Now |
| Approve Before Sending | Drafts are written and wait for your approval before sending. | I've written 6 messages for Quiet Sellers … Ready for you to review. Show Me · Not Now |
| Send Automatically | Messages send by themselves — you’re told after, not before. | I've sent 6 messages for Quiet Sellers … All done for today. Show Me |
On the first three, the drafts come one message per person — — To Mrs Lim: and the message — with Add Comments · Write It Myself · Skip, or Edit · Auto Draft · Skip on one you wrote yourself. The batch closes with Send All · Skip All, and nothing reaches a client until you press Send All. Only Send Automatically reaches a client without you.
Where do I set it?
Each step has its own level, so a sequence can send step 1 by itself and ask you before steps 2 and 3.
- In the editor, click a step. Under How It Goes Out is Approval, with on beneath it — Telegram or WhatsApp, where PropKaki asks you about that step. A new step starts with the one before it's.
- In Extensions → Automations, click the automation. The panel's last field, It Checks With You, shows the level every step shares, or Varies By Step when they differ. Choosing a level there sets every step to it.
on is never how your clients are reached; each step's How It Goes Out decides that.
Which one does a new automation start on?
Confirm Before Drafting. Every automation you build starts there, and every one of the 35 sequences on Browse is written on it — none of them ships on Send Automatically. Each one also arrives switched off.
The level also decides when credits are used. On Notify Only and Confirm Before Drafting, nothing is used until you say yes. On Approve Before Sending and Send Automatically, the drafts are written when the automation runs, so the credits go then.
How can I see which of mine send by themselves?
Look at each row in Extensions → Automations: its switch says whether it is on, and one that can send by itself carries an amber Sends Itself beside its name.
The row says it too — Send Automatically, in amber, with Sends Itself beside the name — and when the level is Send Automatically, its control in the panel carries a small caution dot.
Is there anything that never sends by itself?
Three things wait for you even on Send Automatically:
- A step whose How It Goes Out is Leave It In The App — you send that one yourself.
- A WhatsApp step that goes as a normal message, for anyone who has not written to you in the last 24 hours. It becomes a link you open yourself, and the turn-on check counts how many. A Use Template step sends them your template instead, once Meta has approved it.
- An On Command automation run by typing its command. It goes straight to drafts, and it will not send anything you have not seen.
Does a reply stop it?
Yes. By default a reply stops the sequence for that person, so nobody who has answered you gets the later steps.
The switch is Stop sending once reply received, on the last box in the editor. Turn it off and the editor warns With this off, someone who answers still gets the rest of the sequence., and the row's line adds Keeps Going After A Reply. If you see that on a row you did not expect, press Edit, click the last box, and switch it back on.
Can I change the level after turning it on?
Yes. Change it on any step in the editor, or for every step under It Checks With You, at any time. Like any change to a running automation, it switches the automation off — its switch goes off — so you turn it on again and see the check for the new level before anything runs.
Until you do, it sits under the Off tab, and the switch on its row is how you bring it back.