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How to Create and Schedule a Social Post

A social post is a message, with optional images or video, that VipeCloud publishes to your connected social accounts. Here you'll learn how to write a post, choose the accounts it goes to, schedule it, and change it before it goes out.

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A social post is a message, with optional images or video, that VipeCloud publishes to the social accounts you connect, right away or at a time you choose. You write it once and send it to several accounts at the same time.


How to Write Your Post and Add Media

The post panel walks you through three steps: Comment, Accounts, and Schedule. In the first step you write the message and attach anything you want to share with it.

  1. Click Posts under Social in the sidebar.

  2. Click Create.

  3. Type your message in the What's happening? box.

  4. To attach a photo, click the image icon below the message and select a file from your content.

  5. To upload something new, click the green + button and browse your computer.

  6. To add a video, audio, a file link, hashtags, or emojis, click the matching icon below the message.

You can also start a post from almost any page: click the + button at the top of the page, then click Post. To finish later, click Save Draft & Close.


How to Choose Which Accounts to Post To

The Accounts step lists every social account connected to your VipeCloud account. If an account you need isn't there, connect it on the Social Accounts page first - see How to Connect and Refresh Your Social Accounts.

  1. In the post panel, click Choose Accounts.

  2. Check each account you want the post to go to, or select an account group under Account Groups.

  3. Click Choose Schedule.


How to Schedule the Post

The Schedule step shows the accounts the post is going to under Posting To, and the date and time it goes out. The time is processed in each user's own timezone.

  1. Under Post Date And Time, select the date.

  2. Select the time.

  3. Click Schedule Post.

To post right away, choose the current time of day, or a time in the past.


How to Reschedule, Edit, or Delete a Scheduled Post

The Calendar page shows every scheduled and published post by date, so it's the quickest place to move or change a post before it goes out. A post that has already been published can't be moved.

How to Reschedule a Post

  1. Click Calendar under Social in the sidebar.

  2. Find the post, using the arrows to move to another week or month if needed.

  3. Drag the post to its new date.

How to Edit or Delete a Post

  1. Click Calendar under Social in the sidebar.

  2. Click the post.

  3. Click Edit to change the message or image, or Delete to remove the post from the calendar.


Key Notes

  • The Calendar is not on the mobile app. Use Posts there instead.

  • To send the same post as part of a series, use a social sequence.

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