Auto-updating Profiles

Last updated: February 26, 2026

Automatically refresh Candidate profiles by regularly checking LinkedIn for changes, while controlling update frequency and credit usage.

Auto Update

Auto-updating Profiles is managed from Settings, Features. It keeps Candidate profiles up to date by periodically checking LinkedIn for changes.

Auto-updating Profiles helps you keep Candidate data fresh without manual profile refreshes. You remain in full control of how often profiles are checked, how many profiles can be updated, and how credits are spent.

Auto-updating costs 5 credits per profile. Credits are only deducted when an update is successful.

Enable Auto-updating Profiles

  1. Open Features in Settings

    Navigate to Settings → Features.

  1. Enable Auto-updating Profiles

    Toggle Enable Auto-updating Profiles on to allow Spott to regularly check LinkedIn for profile changes.

Configure auto-updating

Auto-update frequency

Set how often Spott should refresh LinkedIn profiles.

Available options:

  • Every month

  • Every 2 months

  • Every 3 months

  • Every 6 months

  • Every 9 months

  • Every year

Auto-update spend limit

Set the maximum number of profiles that can be successfully auto-updated within the selected timeframe.

Available options:

  • 100 profiles

  • 200 profiles

  • 500 profiles

  • 1,000 profiles

  • 2,000 profiles

  • 5,000 profiles

  • 10,000 profiles

  • 50,000 profiles

The spend limit helps you control credit usage by limiting how many profiles can be updated per period.

Auto-update history

Click Auto-update history to review how auto-updating is performing and how credits are being used.

On this page you can see:

  • Total Auto-Updates for the current month

  • Success Rate, showing how many updates were successful

  • Remaining Credits available for auto-updating

Managing credits

If you need more enrichment credits, you can purchase them from the Billing page.

  • Go to Settings → Billing.

Credits are shared across different features, enrichment and auto-update, and tracked centrally in your workspace.