Facebook Story Scheduling

🕹️ Interactive guide

Check out the interactive demo below for steps, or scroll down for our written guide.

When scheduling your post, just change the "Publish as" dropdown to Story:

That's it! At the scheduled time, your story (image or video) will be automatically published on Instagram.

Scheduling Facebook Stories within Vista Social 

At times, you may want to schedule your Story in Vista Social as a notification reminder instead. Since Facebook's API (how tools like Vista Social communicate with their network) doesn't provide a way to attach stickers when scheduling, you may have posts that will require some sticker work on your phone.

For these posts, you can set it up so a mobile phone (yours or any of your team members) will receive a notification that it is time to publish on Facebook. The user then accepts the notifications and shares the post to Instagram.

Setting up Notifications/Reminders 

You can plan and schedule your Facebook Stories in Vista Social, specify the mobile device (yours or any of your team members) that will receive a mobile notification that it is time to publish on Facebook. The user then accepts the notification and shares the post on Facebook.

Step 1. Download the Vista Social application

• App store
• Google Play

Step 2: Open the app and allow notifications.

IMPORTANT: Allowing notifications is vital for you to be able to receive notifications. 

Step 3: Log in with your Vista Social account

If you don't have an account please create one here. If you are a member of a team that uses Vista Social, please contact your account admin.

Step 4: Schedule your first Facebook Story

Now, back on the web version of Vista Social, when scheduling a post, choose a Facebook profile.

After crafting your post, you will find an option to change the type of the post to a story, switch it to "Send reminder notification" and be able to pick your "device" (the phone from which you have logged in) from a list.

If your device does not show up, please be sure to log in to the mobile app on the phone first and refresh the web screen.

Click Next and schedule your post!

Step 5: Open the notification and share on Facebook

You will receive a notification on your phone, like this:

When you click on it, it'll show you the caption and media for the post. Click on Continue to Facebook, making sure to grant permission to access your phone's photos.

The caption will have been automatically copied to your clipboard, so you can paste it from here. 

(Optional) Step 6: Mark your post as published

Simply click on the check mark to acknowledge the post (mark it posted) or the x mark to reject it (you don't want to publish it). This will help better track this post on your calendar:

Frequenty Asked Questions

Q: Why am I not seeing the option to 'Publish as Story' for my Facebook page post?

A: Make sure you uploaded an image or video before trying to change the post type. Media should be uploaded to the main content area (not the network customization area on the right side).

Q: Can I schedule multiple stories in the same post at once?

A: No, each story must be scheduled as an individual post. Consider using our Bulk Scheduler to schedule multiple story posts in a quicker way.

Q: Can I schedule or add a story and a post to the queue at the same timeslot?

A: No, multiple posts cannot use the same queue timeslot. You can either create timeslots 1 minute apart or manually schedule each post to the time you require.

Need further help?

If you have any questions or need additional help, feel free to contact our awesome support team. We are here to assist you! 💙

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