How do I connect my social media accounts and create and schedule posts, manually, with the AI assistant or with my own AI?

There are two ways to post to social media in Votel: the manual way and the AI way. Either way, connect your accounts first.

1. Go to Calendars, then the Social Media tab, to open the social media calendar.
2. Connect your social media accounts. Click Connect (or Manage Accounts), a pop up appears, for example Sign in with Facebook, and you log in to the platform to authorize it. You can also ask the AI assistant to connect them, and it gives you the links.
3. To post manually, create a new post, choose the platforms, add images (for example from the AI image generator in the Library), and publish it or schedule it for a later date and time.

You can publish and schedule posts on many platforms at once from one place, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube and Google Business Profile. Posting manually does not use AI credits. A post can be set to publish without approval, in which case it goes out on its own at the scheduled time.

To have the AI do it, tell the AI assistant what you want. It posts whatever you tell it to, such as images, static graphics or videos, and it writes the marketing copy.

1. Ask directly, for example: "Create thirty days of social media content, one image for each platform, scheduled every day at 10 AM on every channel." Or: create ten images for social media and give me good ideas. Or give it a concept or idea, for example "I got a new client, create some Instagram posts."
2. Ask for several versions, for example three versions of a Facebook post with images, and pick the one you want.
3. If you bought the social media skill, it appears in the Skills list under the assistant's settings. Type launch the social media skill (or start the social media skill) for a guided, step by step walk through that asks what type of client you have and other details, then creates and posts the content. You can also start a request with using the social media skill and say what you want done, including on a recurring basis.

Many people have the AI design a week or thirty days of content up front, including all the images, and approve it all at once. The AI can create posts for a month or even a year. Creating posts with the AI uses only AI credits, with no extra charge for the feature. Tell the AI to use your brand kit so the posts use your logo, colors and voice. With the marketing skills you can also ask it for image prompts, copy for your posts, or the ad creative skill. The AI image generator and AI video generator, with many different models, can create images and videos for your posts.

If you ask the AI to post to a platform that is not connected, it tells you the account is not connected and gives you a link. Click the link, authorize the account, then tell the AI what you want again.

We recommend having the AI create posts as drafts (or pending to be published) on your social media calendar so you can review them. Approve the ones you like, reject or delete the others and tell the AI what to change, for example to use your logo inside the images, then tell it to post now or schedule for a later date. Not every idea the AI comes up with is a good one, so keep some oversight. You can fully automate posting, but then it may post something you do not like.

To automate ongoing posting:

1. Create a scheduled task in the AI assistant, for example every day at 9 AM, to create a new image and a social media post. Tell it to save posts as drafts or pending so you can review them first. You can also simply ask the assistant to do it again later.
2. Or use a workflow: workflows include social post steps.
3. For a recurring process that needs research, for example finding what is popular in your niche or on Reddit every day, writing posts about it and publishing them on all platforms, use your own AI with full computer use (such as ChatGPT, a Grok bot or Claude Cowork) connected to Votel's MCP server under Settings, then API / MCP. Your own AI finds the hot topics and posts through Votel's MCP tools, and that work runs on your own AI subscription instead of Votel AI assistant credits.

Votel also includes comment to DM automation, and ad management for your ad accounts, which you connect under Click Tracking, then Ads Manager. The social media calendar is also something you can offer to your clients.