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Hey everyone,

I use ManyChat to deliver a free training video whenever someone opts in through my Meta ads.

To keep my bill low, I log in every Friday and delete the previous week’s contacts. I don’t need to keep them in ManyChat since I handle all messaging through Instagram and Go High Level.

It only takes a minute but I’d love to automate this so I don’t have to think about it.

Has anyone set up an automation to automatically delete contacts every couple of days to keep costs down?

Would appreciate any insight!

Hello ​@schober22 ,

Yes, it's definitely possible to automate this. You need to create a new flow where the trigger is a Contact Event.

After clicking on Triggers > Contact Events, select the option Date/Time Received.
Next, configure this date trigger — it will define when the contact will be automatically deleted.

You’ll see an option to select a field that contains the date. Click on it and choose Subscribed, which refers to the date the contact subscribed.
Then, you'll find another setting: Trigger fires X days after. Here, specify how many days after the subscription the contact should be deleted — for example, 2 days.

Once that’s set, save the configuration.

In your flow, add an Action block, go to the Contact Data tab, and select Delete Contact.

Finally, publish your flow. Since it includes a delete action, ManyChat will ask you to type a confirmation keyword, such as "delete", to confirm that you really want to remove the contact.

That’s it! From now on, whenever it’s been 2 days since a contact subscribed, this flow will automatically be triggered and delete the contact.


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