Instagram Story Publishing with Vista Social

In this article, we'll go over how you can schedule your Instagram Stories with Vista Social

• Auto Posting Instagram Stories with Vista Social
  • Limitations & Media Requirements
• Scheduling with Notification Reminders

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Auto posting Instagram Stories with Vista Social

Now, you can publish your Instagram Stories automatically with Vista Social. No more messing with notification reminders! 

1. When scheduling your IG post, add your image or video first, then just change the "Publish as" to Story. Keep in mind that due to 3rd party app limitations from Meta, you may only post 1 story at a time so only add one image or video per post.

2. If your Instagram profile is a Business Profile, you'll be able to use the details Auto publish option

Once done, just choose from the scheduling options below and that's it!

At the scheduled time, your story (image or video) will be automatically published on Instagram.

Limitations & media requirements

Scheduling with notifications/reminders

At times, you may want to schedule your Story in Vista Social as a notification reminder instead. Since Instagram's API (how tools like Vista Social communicates 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 of any of your team members) will receive a notification that it is time to publish on Instagram. The user then accepts the notifications and shares the post to Instagram.

Step 1. Install the Vista Social app

• App store
• Google play

Step 2: Run the app and allow notifications.

Step 3: You will then be asked to login. Please use your Vista Social credentials.

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

Step 4: Notifications

When you login to the app for the first time, you will not yet have any notifications. This is expected. Once you login and schedule stories, they will show up as notifications. See next step.

Step 4: Schedule your first Instagram Story

Now, head over to https://vistasocial.com and login. Click Create → New post, pick an Instagram profile, and design your Instagram post. You will now find an option to change the type of the post to a story 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 login the app on the phone first and refresh the web screen.

Click Next and schedule your post!

Step 5: Receive notification on your phone 

If Vista Social is not open, you will receive a notification popup at the top of your phone that looks like this, just click on it

If Vista Social is open, your notification list will automatically reload and you will see a notification that looks like this:

Step 5: Open notification and share to Instagram

When notification opens simply click on "Continue to Instagram", be sure to grant permission to access your phone's photos.

Step 6: Finish publishing your post to IG and mark your post as published

After publishing to Instagram, go back to Vista Social to mark your post as published. This step is optional but it helps you better track your posts.

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 VS calendar: