Help & support
How W AUTO POST works, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Getting started
How do I add my first client?
In the admin dashboard, go to Clients and choose New client. You need a name and a timezone. The timezone matters: everything the client sees, and every schedule you set for their accounts, is displayed in it. You can also decide here whether their content needs their approval before it can be scheduled.
How do I give a client access to their dashboard?
Open the client and use Invite client. They receive an email invitation, set their own password, and land in their own dashboard. They will only ever see their own data — client accounts cannot be given access to more than one client.
What is the difference between the two dashboards?
The admin dashboard is the full operational surface: clients, accounts, content, calendar, scheduling, automation, logs and settings. The client dashboard is deliberately much smaller — reviewing content, seeing what is scheduled and published, checking account status, and contacting you.
Connecting accounts
How does connecting an account work?
You start the connection from the client’s Accounts tab and the account holder completes it on the platform’s own authorisation screen. They sign in with the platform directly and choose which permissions to grant. No password is shared with you or with us, and two-factor authentication stays on.
Can one client have several accounts on the same platform?
Yes. A client can have as many accounts as they need, including several on the same platform. Each is connected, scheduled, monitored and reported on independently.
What does each account status mean?
Connected means the authorisation is valid and publishing works. Authorisation expired means the token could not be refreshed and the account holder must re-authorise. Permission issue means the granted scopes do not cover what was attempted. Rate limited means the platform is throttling us and publishing will resume on its own. API error and Needs attention mean something requires a manual look.
What do I need before I can connect anything?
An approved developer application for each platform you want to use, with its credentials set in the deployment environment. Until those are configured, the platform appears in the product as not configured rather than offering a connect button that cannot work.
Content and approval
How do I publish one video to several accounts?
Upload the video once as a content item, then add a destination for each account. Every destination gets its own caption, hashtags and publish time, and tracks its own status. The file itself is stored once, not duplicated per destination.
What does the approval workflow look like?
Draft, then Pending review, then Approved, Scheduled, Publishing and Published. A client can also reject, which stops the post, or request changes, which sends it back to draft with their comment attached.
Can I turn approval off?
Yes, per client. If a client does not require approval, content moves straight from draft to scheduled and publishes without a review step.
Scheduling and publishing
Do I need to leave the dashboard open?
No. Scheduling runs entirely on the server. Once a post is scheduled and approved, it publishes whether or not anyone is logged in.
How are timezones handled?
Every time is stored in UTC internally and displayed in the relevant account or client timezone. When you pick a time you are picking a wall-clock time in that account’s timezone, so daylight saving changes do not shift your schedule.
Could a post ever publish twice?
The system is built specifically to prevent it. Only one live job can exist per post, workers hold an exclusive lease while publishing, each job carries an idempotency key, and the platform’s post identifier is recorded under a unique constraint so a retry after a lost response cannot create a duplicate.
A post failed. What now?
Open Failed Posts. Each failure shows the exact reason reported by the platform. Temporary problems — rate limits, network errors, platform outages — are retried automatically on a backoff. Permanent problems are not retried, because retrying them would only fail again; fix the underlying cause and then retry manually.
Analytics
Why do some posts show no metrics?
We only show figures a platform actually returns through its API for that account. If a platform does not report a metric, or has not reported it yet, the product says so rather than showing a zero that would read as real.
Can a client see other clients’ performance?
No. Clients see only their own accounts and their own numbers. Only agency administrators see across clients.
Platform notes
Each platform allows a different set of operations. W AUTO POST implements only what the official API supports.
- TikTok
- Publish video, read post status and account info via the Content Posting API.
- Publish to Business and Creator accounts via the Instagram Graph API.
- YouTube
- Upload video and read basic analytics via the YouTube Data API v3.
Still stuck?
Send us a message through the contact page or email [CONTACT EMAIL NOT YET CONFIGURED]. If you are reporting a failed post, including the client name and the scheduled time helps us find it quickly. Never send us passwords or access tokens — we will never ask for them.