Archive, favorites, visit limits, and bots

Archive and delete

Archiving removes a link from the active dashboard and frees a slot on the plan cap, but the short code stops resolving. Deleting is permanent. Workspace owners and admins can archive or delete anyone's link; members can only change links they created.

Favorites

Star a link from its card. Favorites appear under the Favorites view in the sidebar so campaign links do not drown in a long list. Starring is personal to the workspace data — it is a flag on the link, not a private list per member.

Block bots

Block bots is a workspace setting, on by default on every plan, including Free. When it is on, crawlers, scrapers, preview fetchers (Slack, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and similar) and common automated clients receive HTTP 403 instead of the destination. They are not redirected and they are not recorded as clicks. The same check runs for QR scans.

Turn it off from Country access (sidebar → Manage) if you need unfurled previews in chat apps or if a partner's server must be allowed to follow the URL. The switch applies to every link in the workspace. Owners and admins can change it; members can see the current state. With it off, those clients still never count as tracked clicks — they just reach the destination.

Per-device visit limits

On create/edit, enable Limit visits per device and set how many opens are allowed per device per rolling hour. When a device is over the allowance, Letlink returns HTTP 429 with a short message instead of redirecting. This is meant for gated drops and one-time invites, not for blocking bots at internet scale.

Devices are distinguished with a fingerprint stored on the click (also used as the GA4 client id when Measurement Protocol is connected). It is not a login, and it can be reset if the visitor clears cookies or switches browsers.

To decide who can open a link by where they are rather than how often, see Block or allow countries.