How to Accept All LinkedIn Invitations at Once
A few hundred invitations waiting on you is common after a post does well or a job change goes out. LinkedIn gives each one its own Accept and Ignore button and nothing for the whole list. This covers where they are, when accepting everything is a bad idea, and how to clear the pile in one pass.
Where your received invitations are
From the top bar choose My Network, then Manage next to Invitations. The Received tab is the one that opens first. The direct link is linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/received/.
The list mixes invitations to connect with invitations to follow Pages, join groups and attend events. Suggestions of people you may know sit below it and are not invitations at all.
Before you accept everything
Every person you accept can message you, appears in your feed, and counts toward LinkedIn's cap of 30,000 connections (see the connection limit). Invitations from profiles with no photo, no headline and no mutual connections are the usual spam and fake recruiters.
Ignoring is quiet. LinkedIn does not tell the sender, the invitation simply leaves your list, and they can invite you again later. So the realistic choice is not accept or offend, it is accept or ignore.
Doing it by hand
Click Accept or Ignore on each row. It takes about three seconds an invitation once you are in a rhythm, and the list reloads as it shrinks, so 300 invitations is roughly a quarter of an hour of clicking.
If you only want some of them, scanning headlines one by one is the slow part, not the clicking.
Accepting or ignoring in bulk with Unpend
Install Unpend, open the Network Manager and choose the Received tab, then press Load. Every received invitation lands in one table with the sender's name and headline.
Search or filter the table (for example by job title or company), select the rows you want, and press Accept selected or Ignore selected. Unpend works through them on the real LinkedIn page in your browser, paced at a ceiling of 25 actions a minute, and you can stop it at any time.
Loading and browsing the list is free. Acting on received invitations in bulk is part of Pro, which is $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $59 once.
Common questions
Does the sender know if I ignore their invitation?
No. LinkedIn does not notify anyone when their invitation is ignored. It simply disappears from your received list, and they can send another one later.
Should I accept invitations from people I do not know?
Only if a wider network helps you, for example in sales or recruiting. Each accepted connection can message you and fills your feed, so many people accept only invitations with a real headline and at least one mutual connection.
Is accepting invitations in bulk safe for my account?
Unpend paces every action at a ceiling of 25 a minute with human-length gaps, and backs off when LinkedIn signals a rate limit. Accepting invitations is something LinkedIn expects people to do, but no tool can promise an account will never be restricted.