--- title: "Account Schedules" description: "Create custom posting schedules for each connected social account." canonical_url: "https://help.postpone.app/scheduling/publishing/account-schedules" --- # Account Schedules > Create custom posting schedules for each connected social account. Account schedules let you define your preferred posting days and times for each connected social account. When you create a new post, Postpone automatically selects the next available time slot from your schedule. ## How It Works 1. You set up a weekly schedule of time slots for a social account (e.g., Monday at 9:00 AM, Wednesday at 12:00 PM, Friday at 5:00 PM). 2. When you add that account in the **Schedule Post** page, Postpone auto-fills the date and time with the next open slot from your schedule. 3. You can always override the auto-filled date and time if needed. This saves time by eliminating the need to manually pick a date and time for every post, and helps you maintain a consistent posting cadence. ## How Postpone Picks a Slot Postpone walks your schedule forward in time, starting from now, and hands you the **first slot that isn't already occupied**: - A slot counts as occupied when there's already a scheduled post landing on it (or within about 30 minutes of it). Postpone skips those and keeps looking. - Occupied slots don't have to be at the very end of your queue. If you've booked this Friday and next Monday but left Wednesday open, Postpone fills **Wednesday** — it fills gaps rather than always appending to the tail. - Each slot fills on its own. If a day has several slots, every one of them can hold a post. ### Slots close together If you deliberately place two slots near each other — say 9:00 AM and 9:20 AM on the same day — Postpone automatically tightens its spacing so both slots stay usable. It never lets one closely-spaced slot swallow its neighbor, so a post at 9:00 won't block the 9:20 slot. ## When Your Schedule Is Full If the next few weeks or months are booked solid, it offers you the first open slot after the end of your queue, so a deep queue never stops auto-filling. Building up months of scheduled content works exactly the same as scheduling your next post. ## Example Say your schedule for an account is **Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9:00 AM**, and today is Thursday. - You already have a post scheduled for **this Friday at 9:00 AM** and another for **next Monday at 9:00 AM**. - You create a new post for that account. - Postpone skips the occupied Friday and Monday slots and auto-fills **next Wednesday at 9:00 AM**, the next open slot in your schedule. ## Setting Up an Account Schedule 1. Navigate to [Settings > Account Schedules](https://www.postpone.app/settings/custom-schedules). 2. Find the social account you want to configure and expand it. 3. Add time slots for each day of the week: - Select a day (or use **All Days**, **Weekdays**, or **Weekend** to apply to multiple days at once). - Pick a time using the time picker. - Click the **+** button to add the time slot. 4. Repeat for as many time slots as you'd like. Changes are saved automatically as you make them. To remove a time slot, click the **x** button next to it. To remove every slot at once, click the trash icon above the grid. ## Starting From a Template If you're not sure where to begin, click **Template** and pick one of the ready-made cadences. The template fills in the whole week for you, and you're free to add or remove individual slots afterwards. ## Copying a Schedule Between Accounts If several accounts should post at the same times, set one of them up first and then click **Copy** on the others. Pick the account you want to copy from and its time slots are applied to the account you're editing. Applying a template or copying a schedule replaces the slots that are already there, so Postpone asks you to confirm first if the account already has a schedule. ## Timezone Account schedules use your account timezone. If your timezone is not set, custom schedules will be disabled. You can update your timezone in **Settings**. ## Reddit Schedules Reddit accounts support account schedules too, alongside the per-subreddit schedules you set up in the **Subreddit Manager**. See [Subreddit Manager](https://help.postpone.app/platforms/reddit/subreddit-manager) for more information on those. When both exist, **the subreddit's own schedule wins**: - The first subreddit you post to sets the date for the post. If that subreddit has its own schedule, its next open slot is used; otherwise the account schedule's next open slot is used. - Every subreddit you add after that is spaced 20 minutes from the one before it — unless it has a schedule of its own, in which case that schedule decides. A slot on a Reddit account schedule counts as occupied by **any** post from that Reddit account, whichever subreddit it goes to. A post going out to several subreddits doesn't occupy one slot per subreddit — but it isn't always a single slot either. The 20-minute spacing can push its later submissions past the slot the post was queued for, and each of those is a real post that has to keep its distance, so it also occupies any later slot it lands within 30 minutes of. For example, if your schedule has slots at 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM, a post going to three subreddits at 9:00, 9:20 and 9:40 occupies both: the 9:40 submission is too close to the 10:00 slot to leave it open. ### Example Your Reddit account schedule is **Wednesdays at 9:00 AM**, and r/test has its own schedule of **Mondays at 9:00 AM**. - You add a submission to **r/test** — it's scheduled for Monday 9:00 AM, from the subreddit schedule. - You add a submission to **r/postponeplayground**, which has no schedule — it's scheduled for Monday 9:20 AM, 20 minutes after the first. The Wednesday account slot isn't used here, because the first subreddit had a schedule of its own. ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](https://help.postpone.app/sitemap.md) for all pages.