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See why a contact was stopped in a sequence

Hover the Stopped badge on a sequence's Metrics tab to see why a contact left the sequence early.

When a contact leaves a sequence before all its steps are done, their badge says Stopped. You can now see why.

How to check

Open a sequence, go to the Metrics tab and hover the Stopped badge next to a contact. The tooltip says "The sequence was stopped before all steps were completed" and gives the reason.

Crono Sequences screen for Winter 2027 with the Metrics tab selected and a sequence contact marked Stopped; a tooltip explains it was manually stopped. Visible: crono, Dashboard, Find new, Lists, Templates, Sequences.

Possible reasons

Stopped by a person or an integration

  • Manually stopped by a user, in the app or when logging an activity.

  • Stopped through the Crono API.

Stopped by what happened with the contact or company

  • The contact replied. This appears on colleagues at the same company: when someone replies, their own badge shows Replied.

  • A meeting was booked.

  • A deal was created.

  • The contact unsubscribed.

  • The contact moved to another company.

  • The contact's owner changed.

  • The contact was merged into a duplicate that's already in a sequence.

Stopped because of a change to the sequence or account

  • The sequence was deleted or archived. Unarchiving doesn't restart it.

  • The sequence had no active steps left.

  • The sending mailbox was disconnected.

  • The sequence owner was deactivated.

Stopped by an automation rule

These start with "Automation rule –" and name what triggered the rule: a company status change, an opportunity stage change, a contact field change, a connected call, a bounced email, an accepted LinkedIn invitation, the contact being added to a list, a signal, or another rule trigger.

Note: an automation rule stops the sequences of every contact at the same company, not just one contact.

Good to know

  • Only Stopped badges have the tooltip; Active, Finished, Replied and Converted don't.

  • If no reason was recorded, for example for contacts stopped before this feature, the badge has no tooltip.

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