Switch from Buffer

• Every row of the file, as one scheduled post each, up to 5,000 rows.
• Posting times, in the timezone of your workspace.
• Images, checked against each network’s own limits.
• Tags, as FoPost labels with the same name. Create the labels first.

FoPost reads these columns from your Buffer Bulk Upload CSV:

Text

The post text.

Posting Time

When it goes out, read in your workspace timezone.

Image URL

The image attached to the post.

Tags

Labels in FoPost, matched by name.

1. Step 1

   Find your Buffer file

   Use the CSV you filled in for Buffer's Bulk Upload. If you never made one, Buffer's template works: one row per post, with Text and Posting Time filled in.

2. Step 2

   Upload the file

   In FoPost, open Posts, choose Import Post, and drop the file in as it is. No renaming columns, no reformatting dates.

3. Step 3

   Pick the accounts

   The file has no accounts column, so choose the accounts the posts go to. They apply to every row.

4. Step 4

   Check the preview, then import

   Every row is checked before anything is created: dates in the past, text over a network limit, an image a network will not take. Fix the file if a row fails, then import. A whole import can be rolled back until a post from it goes out.

Know what worked

Stop exporting numbers from every app

Every network's results land in one place, so you can tell what to make more of.

Start Posting Free

• Your scheduled Buffer queue. Buffer has no export for scheduled posts, only for sent ones, so the spreadsheet is the way across.
• Rows with no Posting Time. Buffer sends those to its queue; FoPost needs the date.
• Rows with an image and no text, and the Pinterest Board Name column.
• Connected accounts. Each network has to be connected again through its own login.
• Analytics history. Numbers start from the day an account is connected.