Editing, pausing and restarting campaigns

How to change a campaign you launched and what happens when you do

Written by Alexander Shartsis
Updated over 3 weeks ago

Table of contents

• Editing an active campaign
• Resetting a stuck campaign to Draft
• Controlling when Skyp stops sending after a reply

You can edit campaigns until you click the button to start them. Once started, campaigns in active, evergreen, or completed status are locked — configuration changes are not allowed. However, you can pause an active or evergreen campaign to edit it again.

Editing an active campaign

Skyp makes it easy to edit a running campaign without having to manually pause it first. From the Campaigns dashboard:

1. Click the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the active campaign.
2. Select Edit campaign.
3. A confirmation dialog will appear explaining that the campaign must be paused before editing. Click Pause & Edit to continue — Skyp will pause the campaign and open the editor automatically.
4. Make your changes, then resume the campaign from the three-dot menu when you're ready.

What happens while a campaign is paused:

• Skyp stops sending emails.
• Automations that add contacts will continue to add contacts.

The second point means that if you have integrations such as the Syft Data integration attached to that campaign, contacts will still be added even when it is paused.

You are able to edit, change settings, and do whatever you like to the campaign at this point.

What happens when you restart it:

• New contacts will receive emails in the order that they should get them (for example, if you added a new contact, it will receive the 1st email in their sequence).
• Existing contacts will receive the correct email in their sequence (for example, if Betty already received 3 emails she will get the 4th; if Joe had received 5 emails he will get email 6 next).
• Email sending is throttled as you would expect, so if the campaign is large and has a lot of contacts (or you added a lot) with a big backlog of emails, it may take more than a day to get through them all.
• Evergreen campaigns resume as evergreen — not active. Skyp remembers the previous status so pausing and resuming an evergreen campaign keeps it in evergreen mode, not active mode.

Using the Skyp API or MCP tools? A few things to know when working with campaigns programmatically:

• Attempting to update a locked campaign (active, evergreen, or completed) via the API returns a 409 Conflict error. Pause the campaign first before making configuration changes.
• Invalid status transitions (for example, jumping from draft directly to paused) also return a 409 Conflict error.
• Campaign field constraints enforced server-side: touches must be 1–7, max_words must be 30–150, closing_style must be soft, mix, or hard, and sending_days / sending_times must each contain at least one value. Passing an empty list for either will return a validation error.

Resetting a stuck campaign to Draft

Occasionally a campaign can get stuck in a Generating state — where Skyp is trying to finalize the email sequences but hasn't completed. If this happens, you can manually reset it back to Draft so you can edit and relaunch it.

Note that while a campaign is generating, the Edit option is temporarily hidden in the three-dot menu — only Reset to Draft is shown. This prevents edits from interfering with an active generation run.

To reset a generating campaign:

1. On the Campaigns page, find the campaign showing a Generating status.
2. Click the three-dot menu on the right.
3. Select Reset to Draft.

The campaign will return to drafting mode. You can then open it, make any edits, and launch it again normally.

Skyp now automatically recovers from stuck or failed generations. If email generation gets stuck or fails, the campaign is automatically returned to Draft within a few minutes — so you may not need to reset it manually at all.

Controlling when Skyp stops sending after a reply

By default, Skyp stops sending follow-up emails to a contact as soon as they reply — regardless of the type of reply.

You can adjust this behavior on the campaign review step before launching:

• Stop sending after any reply (default) — Skyp stops the sequence the moment a contact responds.
• Stop sending only after a negative reply — If you turn off "Stop sending after reply," a new option appears: Stop sending after negative reply. With this enabled, Skyp will continue sending follow-ups to contacts who reply positively or neutrally, but will stop for contacts who send a clearly negative response.
• Keep sending regardless of replies — Turn off both options if you want the sequence to always complete, no matter how the contact responds.

The "stop after negative reply only" option is useful for nurture campaigns where a positive or neutral reply signals interest — you want to keep the conversation going without needing to manually restart the sequence.