Schedule any of your templates or library posts to your Facebook Messenger chats!
This can be done with both personal chats, and group chats.
⭐ Before scheduling messages to a chat, make sure you have installed the PostMyParty Chrome extension to your computer or laptop.
You can watch the video below, or continue on to view the written steps:
How to Schedule Chats
From the PostMyParty menu, click Parties, then click the New Party button.
Step 1) Get Started
From the menu given, select Chat.
Step 2) Where to Post Party
From here you'll be entering where you want to schedule your posts.
Click Add New Chat +
Type in the name of the chat you're scheduling messages to.
Paste in the link to that Facebook Messenger chat.
(Click here for help locating that link).
Click Save Chat.
Note: After adding a chat here, that chat will be available in the dropdown box moving forward. You won't have to type the name and paste the link each time.
Click Next Step.
Step 3) Start Date
Select the Start Date
This would be the Date you want your Day 1 template posts to begin posting on.Select the Timezone you want your posts to follow.
For example: Let's say my template begins with a Day 1, 8am post. But my party guests are in a timezone 3 hours behind me. If I select their timezone here, it will post at 8am for them, but 11am my time. This will save you from having to manually update each post for each individual time zone.
Click Next Step
Step 4) Template
Choose the template you want to schedule from the dropdown box provided. This will schedule all posts from that template to this party.
If you do not want any template posts scheduled to this party, un-check the Copy Posts option
Click Next Step.
Possible next step) Replacement Tokens
If the template you had selected in Step 4 contained tokens, you will be required to fill in their replacements here.
Note: If you do not receive this Replacement Token step, you can continue along to the final step further down this tutorial.
This step would look similar to the image below:
What you enter in these fields will be used in place of the corresponding tokens in your posts. If you're not sure of how tokens were used to know what to enter here, I would recommend taking a moment to look over your template to give you more context in which they were used.
If you're very unfamiliar with how tokens work, learn more here.
Once you're finished filling this page in, click Next Step.
Final Step) Confirm
The details you had selected will be listed here. Take a look over them to be certain they are correct.
Click Preview Posts to see all posts that will be scheduled to this party.
Scroll to the bottom and click Confirm & Schedule
Your party is now scheduled!
Before you step away 👇
⭐Ensure your computer is set up to publish by making sure the below conditions are met at the time your posts are scheduled for:
Your computer is on. **If you are using a laptop, be sure to keep the lid open.**
Your browser is open (the same one you had downloaded the extension to).
You are logged into your Facebook account, in that same browser.
The Chrome extension is on and has been refreshed.
When the time for a scheduled posts arrives, the extension will open a new tab, publish to the Facebook chat it was scheduled for, then close the tab.
