Schedule Post Basics

Learn the fundamental steps to schedule your social media posts, ensuring timely and consistent content delivery across all platforms

Schedule Instagram Stories

You can draft, schedule & post stories (videos & images) on Instagram directly via Statusbrew.

You can publish up to 10 single images, videos in any combination using Statusbrew.

Steps For Creating Stories For Instagram

You can create & schedule stories with images or video files from Statusbrew's Story Composer.

To create a Story,

  • From the Statusbrew Dashboard, click on Story Composer in Compose.

    Story Composer SB
  • Select your Instagram Profile(s) from the Profile Picker.

    Profile Selecter SB
  • Upload the media (images or videos), and if needed, you can also re-order them as per your preference.

Story Scheduling SB

Due to API limitations, interactive overlays like Polls, Q&A, Music, Filters, Stickers or other effects cannot be added to Instagram Stories posted with Statusbrew.

You Have Two Publishing Options:

Direct publishing

Select this option to schedule or publish your Instagram stories directly via the Statusbrew web app.

Publishing via mobile reminders

This option sends push notifications or reminders via the Statusbrew mobile app when it's time to publish your story on Instagram.

To publish via mobile reminders:

  • Choose Publishing via mobile reminders option

    Story publishing with mobile reminders
  • Select a user(s) or user group(s) to send mobile reminders

Only the selected users or user groups will get a reminder on their mobile devices. If not selected, all the users with publishing access will get a reminder.

  • You can add notes (up to 5000 characters) and links inside Mobile Publisher Notes for the publisher’s reference

  • To add publisher notes, go to story media and click on Edit mobile publisher notes icon at the bottom left side

    Adding Notes while story publishing
  • Complete scheduling or publishing your Story by selecting Choose date & time option and the Post Now or Schedule. Learn how to select the right posting time.

  • At the scheduled time, the selected user(s)/user group(s) will receive a push notification on their mobile device

  • Tap the Push Notification you receive on your mobile device.

  • Tap to copy and paste any Story Notes or Link Sticker URLs.

  • Tap Stories and add Instagram features to your Story. Once completed, tap the Share icon to publish your Story.

If in case, you miss an Instagram Publishing Notification on your Statusbrew mobile app, you can always choose to republish it.

To do so, you can either click on the re-send notification button from Statusbrew's Planner in the web app. Go to Publish > Past Reminders. Find the Story and click on it to open its detail view. Select More actions > Resend notification.

Or, go to the Past Reminders in Statusbrew's mobile app. Find the Story and click on it. Tap (More) & tap Share on Instagram.

You can also do the following:

Key Features

Editing Stories

Customize your Facebook or Instagram stories directly within Story Composer. You can edit and fix the aspect ratio of the stories.

Drag and Drop Reordering

Change the sequence of your stories using the intuitive drag-and-drop feature. Simply reorder your images or videos to achieve the desired storytelling flow.

Reordering Stories (SB)

Save as Draft

To make adjustments or finalize your story later, you can save your work as a draft. This way, you can revisit and edit the story before scheduling or publishing it.

Saving Stories as Draft (SB)

Story Previews

Get a glimpse of how your story will look after publishing with the preview feature. The right side of the compose screen displays a real-time preview of your story, ensuring that everything appears as intended.

Story Preview (SB)

Clearing

By default, your work-in-progress is retained. To begin a new and erase all content on the screen, you can use the clear option within Compose window.

Clearing existing content in Composer

For specifications related to Story Image or Video Formats or Sizes, please refer to our guide Media Specifications For Different Social Networks.

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