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
- 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).
- 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.
- 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
- Navigate to Settings > Account Schedules.
- Find the social account you want to configure and expand it.
- 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.
- 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 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.