Guides
Short, step by step, and about what the product does today. Most take a minute.
Posting
- How to schedule YouTube videos in advance
Connect a channel once, pick a time with its own timezone, and the video uploads then. Making it Public is still a manual step in YouTube Studio today.
- How to bulk-schedule a month of posts from a CSV
On the Pro plan: four columns, up to two hundred rows, and one error message per bad line. A whole file is never rejected for one typo.
- How to recycle a post that performed well
One click copies its caption, channels, and media into a new draft. You pick the new date and time. It is not an automatic repeat.
- Caption character limits, by platform
X cuts off at 280, YouTube allows 5,000. Every limit the composer's character check measures against, in one table.
- YouTube video upload requirements
MP4 or MOV, up to 500MB for video. That is the real limit PostEase enforces today, well under YouTube’s own far larger 256GB ceiling.
- Saving a draft vs. scheduling a post
A draft needs a caption and a channel. Scheduling adds one rule: the time has to be at least five minutes from now.
- Can I navigate away while a video is uploading?
Yes. The upload keeps going in the background, with its progress in the sidebar on every screen, and a failure stays in the bell until you read it.
- Adding alt text to the images you schedule
One composer field, sent with the image to Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Bluesky. Why the cap is 500 characters, and why video is left out.
Channels and the inbox
- Does the inbox update automatically?
New comments sync in on a 5-minute schedule; once they land, the inbox updates on its own. No refresh, no lost place in a thread.
- What permissions connecting YouTube asks for
Four Google scopes: upload, read-only channel access, comment replies, and read-only analytics. Nothing broader than Google’s consent screen names.
- Does my channel connection expire?
It renews itself automatically every 15 minutes, well before the old token would expire. You only hear from us if a renewal fails.
- How to disconnect a channel
Remove a connected account: what happens to the posts scheduled to it, and where PostEase revokes its own access versus where you remove it yourself.
When something goes wrong
- How you find out when a channel disconnects
An email to everyone in the workspace the moment it happens, with a direct link to reconnect it. Not a status you have to remember to check.
- What happens when a post fails to publish
It retries automatically, up to five times, before it is ever marked failed for good. Even then, it sorts above everything else in its day so you see it.
- What happens if a workspace payment fails
Nothing stops while the payment is retried. If it still fails, the workspace moves to the Free plan instead of closing, and the Billing page says why.
- Could a post publish twice?
No. A post can only move from claimed to publishing once. A duplicate queue delivery for a target already past that point is a no-op, not a second attempt.
Your workspace
- How to set up a link-in-bio page
A title, a bio, and up to twenty links at your own address. No separate account, no separate bill.
- How to export your posting history to CSV
One row per platform a post targeted, with a timestamp format that still makes sense once the file has left the app.
- Managing multiple brands, each its own workspace
Switching is instant from a dropdown, but every workspace is its own trial and its own bill, not a shared plan across brands.
- How to set your workspace timezone
Every time in PostEase is in the workspace’s zone, not your browser’s. Posts already scheduled keep their exact moment when you change it.
- How to delete a workspace or your account
Both are permanent, both ask you to type the name to confirm, and both cancel billing and erase media. Here is exactly what each one removes.
- How to invite a teammate to your workspace
Invite by email from Settings, then Members. They sign in with that address and the workspace appears. What members can do, and what only the owner can.
Other tools
- Saving a page to your planner while browsing
A browser extension turns any page into a draft in your calendar, using a Pro plan API token. Manual install for now; it is not on the Chrome Web Store.
- Import your calendar from another scheduler
Upload a CSV from Metricool or Hootsuite, map the columns, and your next two weeks land on the calendar as drafts, even before every channel is reconnected.
- How to connect PostEase to Zapier or Make
Send every publish to a Zapier Catch Hook or a Make webhook, with the caption, the account and a link to the live post. Send a test event to map the fields.
- Connecting PostEase to the rest of your stack
Webhooks, Zapier and Make, importing a calendar from another scheduler, and the browser extension: every way PostEase connects to your other tools.
- Use the PostEase API
Create, schedule and read posts, the inbox and media from your own code with a Pro plan token: every route, the response shape and the errors.
Questions
Can I schedule a YouTube video to go public at a set time?
The video uploads at the time you set, with the visibility you chose. Until Google has audited PostEase’s API access, YouTube keeps uploads private whatever was chosen; the post’s record says so and links to YouTube Studio to change it.
What happens to scheduled posts when I disconnect a channel?
They lose that channel. A post with no other channel left becomes a draft and keeps its date and time, so adding a channel back is a one-field edit. Inbox messages and automations for the channel are removed.
Who is told when a channel disconnects?
Everyone in the workspace, by email, the moment it happens, not only the person who connected it. The email links straight to the Channels page to reconnect.
What address does a PostEase link-in-bio page get?
postease.co/ followed by the name you choose, such as postease.co/your-name. There is no separate account to make and nothing to host yourself.
Is the PostEase browser extension on the Chrome Web Store?
Not yet. You install it by hand: download the extension source, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and choose Load unpacked.
Try it on your own account.
Free, with every channel. Your recent posts arrive when you connect.