🔁 Recurring posts
Recurring posts - Once created, you won't think about it anymore
Do you need to always send the same post over and over every day, hour or minute?
Or even every month but only on certain days?
Recurring posts are what you are looking for.
By making a post recurring you will be able to decide how often to repeat the sending in the channel, in a highly customizable way. In fact, it will be possible to decide a time from which to set the recurrence of the post, whether every minute, every hour, or every day.
You can also decide on which days of the week the post should be sent or even on which days of the month. Also, in case your post has to be sent every hour, you can decide a specific time slot in which to do it, for example only in the afternoon.
Finally, you can set a start date on which the recurring post will activate and proceed to send itself automatically and an end date on which it will stop doing it.
Recurring posts is one of the paid features available starting with the Plus plan.
Configuration
Create post final menu
Once you get to the final Create post menu, you can decide to make the newly created post recurring by clicking on "Recurring post".
Recurring post starting menu
Once you press the button you will find yourself in the main menu, where you can actually make the post recurring once you click on "Save recurring post".
Let's see what are the available customizations:
Once you have set up your post customizations and hit the "Save Recurring Post" button, the post is ready to be sent repeatedly.
By clicking on "Edit post" it will be possible to double check and, if necessary, edit the recurrence settings, as well as edit the content of the post itself.
Time
The time of a recurring post is the starting point to then define its recurrence, that is how often to send it. For example, if the time is set at 3:32 with a recurrence of 2 hours, the post will be sent at 1:32, 3:32, 5:32, 7:32 and so on arriving until 23:32, for then come back at 1:32 and start over.
The hour must therefore be selected first, for example 2 o'clock.
Then the minutes, for example 32.
You will then return to the main menu, with the updated time in the bot message.
Recurrence
The recurrence of a recurring post is the time interval between one sending and the other. You will find it set by default to "every 24 hours" and to change it just press the corresponding button.
In this case it was chosen for example every two hours.
Once pressed next, you can check the new recurrence set in the bot message.
Days of the week
With this customization you can decide on which days of the week the recurring post should be sent.
By default, all days of the week are selected:
But suppose, for example, that the recurring post doesn't have to be sent on a Wednesday. Just press the corresponding button and then the "Next" button to confirm your choice.
The days with the ❌ are the days when the post will not be sent.
Days of the month
With this customization you can decide on which specific days of the month the recurring post should be sent. If not even one day is selected, the post will be sent every day of the month, as if the customization did not exist.
Let's say instead that it is necessary to send it only the first two days:
Just select 1 and 2 and press "Next" to confirm your choice.
Time slot
With the time slot we can decide that the recurring post is sent only in a specific range of hours during the day.
For example, let's set a recurrence of one hour. The post will then be sent every hour throughout the day. However, in the event that the post has to be sent every hour throughout the day except in the afternoon, just set a time slot from 19 to 13; doing so will skip the afternoon hours.
So let's first select the start time of the time slot:
Then we select the end time:
At this point it will be possible to verify that the time slot has been set correctly and that consequently the post will be sent only from 19 to 13.
In case we want to return to send the post regularly, that is every hour, just press again on "Time slot" and then on "Delete time slot":
Start date and end date
You can set the start date, which is a date from which the post will start recurring. If no start date is set, the post will start recurring immediately after saving it.
It is therefore necessary to send a date in the formats available in the examples shown by the bot.
Once the start date is sent, the bot will show it in the message.
If you change your mind about the start date, you can change it by sending it again or delete it by clicking on the "Delete start date" button.
You can also set the end date, which is a date from which the post will cease to be recurring. If not set, the post will remain recurring until deleted or shut down.
The procedure for setting the end date is the same as for the start date.
Delete last post
By activating this customization it is possible to send a post repeatedly in the channel making sure that it is present in the chat at most once.
In fact, what happens is the cancellation of the post from the channel a moment before it is sent again, as if the last post sent overwrites the previous one.
Deletion Timer
To use this feature, you need the 🟣 PREMIUM plan or higher.
With the Deletion Timer, you can choose how long a recurring post will remain in the channel before being deleted after being sent.
For example: Suppose we want to send an advertisement post once a day, every day, but ensure it stays in the channel for only one hour.
In the post recurrence menu, we then select Deletion Timer:
By default, the timer is not set, so if a post is sent it will remain in the channel.
Instead, we set a one-hour timer by pressing the corresponding button in the bot menu.
Going back to the main menu, we can verify that the timer has been set correctly. After pressing Save Recurring Post, the post will be sent daily and automatically deleted after one hour.
Shared recurring posts
To simplify the creation of the same post across multiple channels, you can use recurring post sharing.
When you reach the final step of creating the post, simply click on Recurring post as usual:
Next, select the channels where the recurring post will be sent:
Finally, save the recurring post to make it active:
Now we can verify that the post was created correctly using the Edit post button:
Finally, using the Set target channels button, you can change the channels where the recurring post should be sent.
Edits made to a post shared across multiple channels will apply to the post delivery in each shared channel.
Attention: To change the list of channels in a shared post, you must be the creator of that post.