Scheduling posts to Shopify simplifies social media posting for store owners Planly lets you schedule Shopify products in less time and effort than regular posting.
How to schedule posts on social media:
1. Resource
1. On the Planner tab click Add planner button
2. Select Shopify in the Resource field and click Next button.
There are different sections on the planner that you will go through.
2. When
This section is to set the time and date of the schedules. There are two types of triggers that you sen set up for the planner.
Interval will define the number of times your Shopify products will be shared on social media. You can set minutes, hours, and days as the internal range.
On new product trigger will share posts each time a new product is added to your Shopify store.
You can give set start and end date for the planner. Or, you can choose to Run forever where the set posting trigger will be always on. You only need to pick the start date for Run forever, no need for the end date.
3. When
This section is to define which social channels you want to schedule posts. Keep in mind that if yyou cannot schedule product photos to TikTok.
4. Content
This section is to write the description of the scheduled posts. You can write description from your own and also use the ready shortcodes from the General section on the right side fo the screen. These shortcodes specify the characteristics of each post and avoid generalization when auto posting Shopify products. The type of shortcodes you can add to post description:
- Product ID
- Product URL (entire link)
- Slug (part of the URL specific to the product)
- Title
- Description
- Tags
- Vendor
It is important to pay attention to the requirements of each platform. Caption limit, and image size limit can cause your schedules to fail while posting them. You can customize post descriptions for each social channel and use their specific features like the first commenting, allow commenting, share publicly or with friends.
5. Confirm
Name your planner and click Save to finish.
Until clicking the Save button, you can always go back and edit details on the previous pages by clicking the Back button on the bottom left corner of the screen.
You can view the scheduled planners on the Planners page. You can pause or delete existing planners on by clicking the icon.
Despite regular social media schedules, Shopify schedules will not be displayed on the Calendar page until they are published. You can view Shopify schedules planners on the Planner tab.
Once schedules are auto-published, you can view posts on your calendar.