Introduction
Instagram has divided account types into Personal, Creator, and Professional.
๐ด According to their API, automatic posting is supported for Professional and Creator accounts but not personal ones, unfortunately.
๐ Please note that auto-posting of stories is supported for Business accounts but not for the Creator type.
Posting to Instagram personal pages through PromoRepublic means posting manually through the mobile app. If you're interested in automatic posting, we suggest converting your personal Instagram page to a business (Professional) type, as explained in this guide.
Connect Instagram Personal
To connect an Instagram Personal page to PromoRepublic, you will need the accountโs link. You can find it in the web address line at the top of the page at www.instagram.com.
Open the PromoRepublic platform, go to the Calendar section, and select the option to connect an Instagram Personal.
Open www.instagram.com, find your account and copy the URL link as shown below.
In the connection interface on our platform, enter the page link in the designated field and hit โConnect.โ
๐ Depending on the page's privacy and visibility settings, the link may appear as the page name and number of followers or a direct URL.
Note: There is no difference between Instagram Personal, Business and Creator, so you can add a link to any Instagram account to use manual publishing workflow.
As you can see in the calendar, we offer two connection options: Instagram Personal and Instagram Business. ๐ If your page is a business account, but for some reason, currently it is connected as personal, please connect it accordingly.
Posting to Instagram Personal
๐ด Before you begin:
Download the PromoRepublic app from AppStore or Play Market on your phone. Log in the same way as on the desktop: email/password OR Facebook.
There are two ways to log in PromoRepublic on the computer: with email or Facebook. To avoid any access issues, please keep this minor but very important step in mind. Otherwise, the app won't let you sign in with Facebook if you originally used an email and password for desktop authorization. Or vice versa.
If you have several Instagram accounts, first switch to the necessary one in the Instagram app on your mobile device.
Here is a typical flow of how to publish a post to a personal Instagram page through the PromoRepublic app on Android devices.
๐ก 1. Once the post is scheduled for a particular day and time, you will receive a notification on your phone when it's time to publish it.
When scheduling a post to several Instagram accounts, you will get notifications for each post separately.
๐ก 2. Open the PromoRepublic app on your phone and click on the red Publish button to start the process.
๐ก 3. Next, you'll see a pop-up message informing you that the caption (if any) is automatically copied, so you don't have to rewrite it and just paste it on the final step. Just hit OK to proceed to the next step.
๐กย 4. Your phone will give you a list of apps at the bottom. Select Instagram Feed.
๐ด๐ด๐ด At this stage, you're redirected to the Instagram app, and PromoRepublic will consider this post or story published because we can't track your actions further in the Instagram mobile app.ย โ If you don't complete the publishing process, it will be indicated as published in PromoRepublic, but it will not be actually published on Instagram.
๐ก 5. Being directed to the Instagram app, you see regular Instagram functionality. Feel free to ัrop your picture if needed and hit the arrow on the top right.
๐กย 6. Edit the image if necessary and hit the arrow on the top right.
๐ก 7. Paste the caption (if any) by tapping and holding the text field. Finally, hit the tick on the top to actually publish this post.
Congrats! Your post has been successfully published to your Instagram feed. The same flow should be applied for story posting, except you should choose the Stories option instead of Feed.ย
For your convenience, we created a short video tutorial to demonstrate the steps described above.
If you have any further questions, please contact us at
โ[email protected].