Step 9 of Onboarding

Connecting your social accounts to SocialPilot.

To post on your behalf, we need your accounts connected to SocialPilot, our scheduling platform. You'll authorize everything yourself, directly through each platform's own login screen, so you never need to send us a password.

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You'll get an invite first

Before any of this, you'll receive an email invite to join SocialPilot as a client. That's where you'll log in and connect each account below, directly through the platform, so you never have to hand over a password to us or anyone else.

Before you start

  • Your Instagram needs to be a Business or Creator account, not a personal profile.
  • That Instagram account needs to be linked to a Facebook Page, with Admin or Editor access on that Page.
  • If you're posting from a LinkedIn Company Page rather than a personal profile, you'll need admin access to that page.
  • Have your login info handy for each platform below. You'll be logging in directly, not sharing it with us.

LinkedIn

  1. Click "Connect" next to LinkedIn.
  2. Posting from your personal profile: log in and approve the requested permissions.
  3. Posting from a Company Page: confirm you're an admin, then select the page from the list and approve.

Instagram

  1. Click "Connect" next to Instagram.
  2. Log in with the Facebook account tied to your Instagram Business profile.
  3. Select the Facebook Page linked to your Instagram account.
  4. Approve all requested permissions. SocialPilot needs full access to publish and view analytics.

X

  1. Click "Connect" next to X.
  2. Log in with your account and approve the authorization request.

YouTube

  1. Click "Connect" next to YouTube.
  2. Log in with the Google account tied to your channel.
  3. Select the channel you want to connect and approve the requested permissions.

TikTok

one extra step
  1. Click "Connect" next to TikTok.
  2. Log in and approve all requested permissions, including video publishing and analytics access. Don't decline any of these, TikTok needs the full set for the connection to work.
  3. Once connected, refresh the account inside SocialPilot to turn on Direct Publishing. This lets posts go live automatically at the scheduled time, no notification or manual tap needed.

Good to know: SocialPilot also offers a Mobile Reminder option as a fallback, sending a push notification at post time that needs a manual tap to publish. We'll use Direct Publishing by default so nothing depends on catching a notification in real time, but the fallback stays available if you ever want more manual control over a specific post.

Once everything's connected

You're all set. From here, we handle scheduling, captions, and posting, with everything shared for your approval before it goes live. Questions on any step? Just reach out, we're happy to walk through it together.