How to schedule carousel posts with Make

Make allows you to automate workflows between different apps —including scheduling carousel posts to Vista Social!

This guide will walk you through setting up a Scenario to schedule a carousel post automatically.

Before proceeding, ensure you have:

A Make account
A Vista Social account (in case you haven't signed up yet, click here)
An Excel/Google Sheet or another app that contains your post details, with a multiple columns for your images (we will use this to trigger post scheduling)
A cloud storage account (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox) or any other online storage that allows you to have accessible direct links for your images

Note: You can also upload images to your Vista Social media library and grab direct media links from there.

Now let's begin creating our Scenario!

Setting up your Trigger Event

1. On Make, click + Create a new scenario.

2. Choose your first app - trigger (e.g., Google Sheets, Airtable, or another data source where your post details are stored). Let's use Google Sheets as an example.

3. Start configuring your trigger event (e.g., "Watch New Rows" if using Google Sheets).

4. Connect your trigger app and configure it to fetch your file and post details (caption, image links, scheduling time, etc.).

Setting up your Action Event

1. Click on Add another module, then search for and select Vista Social.

3. Choose the action Schedule a New Post.

4. Connect your Vista Social account using your API key which you can find in your Integration settings.

5. Back in Make, map the required fields for the post.

6. This is the important step: Under Media, make sure to add all the link columns to your post.

7. It's time to test our post! Hit the Run once button below.

And that's it! Now we have set up an automation for our carousel posts with Make.

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! 💙