Set up posting slots

A posting slot is a weekday and a number of posts, from 1 to 5, for one channel. It repeats every week. Slots are how you say how often a channel posts: an Instagram slot on Tuesday with 2 posts and one on Friday with 1 means three Instagram posts a week. An empty slot shows on the Calendar as a gap to fill.

You set slots on the Calendar (Content > Calendar) or on a channel's own page (Presence > Channels, then Schedule on the channel).

Posting time

A slot has no time of its own. Each channel has one posting time, 09:00 unless you change it, in your workspace timezone:

• The first post on a slotted day goes out at the posting time.
• Each further post that day goes 3 hours later. With a 09:00 posting time and 2 posts on Thursday, the second goes at 12:00. A post never goes later than 23:59 that day.
• A slot stays open all day. A post placed after its time goes out right away, at the next minute. Finish a post at 09:05 and it still takes that day's 09:00 slot, scheduled for 09:06.

To change it, set Posting time in your workspace zone above the channel's slots and select Save time. The label names the zone right there, like Posting time in America/New_York (EST): the zone's name plus the short name in effect today. A UTC workspace reads Posting time in UTC. Posts already on the calendar keep the time they were scheduled; the new time applies to posts you place from then on.

A 09:00 posting time stays 09:00 local across daylight saving. Changing the workspace timezone keeps it, so the real posting instant moves. Admins set the workspace timezone on Strategy > Markets; for them, the Posting schedule panel links there.

Set up a schedule

Select Posting schedule at the top right of the Calendar. Its description names your workspace timezone, like "from its posting time in your workspace timezone, America/New_York (EST)". If you're an admin, the zone's name is a link to Strategy > Markets, where you change it.

The panel lists every channel's posting time and slots, like "Instagram, 3 posts a week", with a form to add more:

1. Pick a Channel.
2. Pick one or more Days, Monday through Sunday.
3. Set Posts each day with − and +. It starts at 1.
4. Select Add slots.

Mark adds one slot per day you picked, each with that number of posts. If the channel already has a slot on a day you picked, Mark sets that slot's number of posts instead. To change a slot's posts a day, use − and + on its row; Mark saves the change right away. To remove a slot, select the × on its row. A slot for one Market shows the Market's name.

Set up one channel's schedule

On Presence > Channels, select Schedule on a social channel. For blog posts, FAQs, or competitor pages, open your publishing website under Presence > Websites and select the content type in its Publishing section. The channel's page shows its posting time, its slots and the same form, with the channel already picked, above its approval rules. Its posting time label names the workspace zone too, like Posting time in America/New_York (EST).

Add one slot from a day

Hover over a day on the Calendar and select Add slot at the bottom of the day. Pick a Channel and Posts each day, then select Add slot. The slot repeats on that weekday every week.

Change or remove a slot

Select a day in the Posting schedule panel or on a channel's page. On the Calendar, select a Passed slot, or select a Gap or Open slot and then Edit slot at the bottom of the list that opens. Change its Day or Posts that day and select Save, or select Remove slot. A change applies to every week.

When a slot can't be saved

• "Pick a channel, a weekday, and 1 to 5 posts a day." Mark couldn't read one of the three. Check them and try again.
• "That channel already has a slot on this weekday." You moved a slot to a day the channel already posts on. Change that day's slot instead.
• "Pick a time, as HH:MM." The posting time isn't a time of day.
• "You must be signed in to an organization." Your session ended. Sign in, pick your organization, and try again.