Social media post scheduling and management

Purpose

1.1. Automated social media post scheduling and management automates the process of planning, creating, scheduling, publishing, and tracking posts across multiple platforms for a seamless, consistent brand presence for Arabic restaurants.
1.2. This automation solution targets efficient marketing strategies, customer engagement, event promotion, seasonal menu announcements, offer automation, and real-time posting management without manual intervention.
1.3. Ensures that Arabic cuisine restaurants can maintain high-frequency, high-quality content outputs, adapt to trending topics, generate engagement analytics, and automate content approval and asset management cycles.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New menu item announcement, detected via CMS entry or file upload automation.
2.2. Scheduled calendar event (e.g., Ramadan, Eid, special offers) triggers batching and automated post scheduling.
2.3. Customer engagement spikes (comments, DMs) exceeding threshold, detected via social listening APIs.
2.4. Content approval automator from managers or marketing leads, auto-initiating post queues.
2.5. Specified times/days (e.g., daily 9 AM/5 PM) for automated posting using time-based triggers.

Platform Variants

3.1. Facebook Graph API
• Feature/Setting: Schedule automated posts using /{page-id}/feed endpoint with scheduling parameter; configure permissions for Pages_manage_posts, include media_url and publish_time.
3.2. Instagram Graph API
• Feature/Setting: Automate story/post uploads with /{user-id}/media + /media_publish; auto-configure for image/video type, caption, handle hashtag automation.
3.3. Twitter/X API v2
• Feature/Setting: Automate tweet scheduling via POST /tweets endpoint, set scheduled_publish_time, image_id for media, and status message body.
3.4. LinkedIn Marketing API
• Feature/Setting: Automate company updates with POST /ugcPosts; configure scheduledTime and specify organization URN.
3.5. Google My Business API
• Feature/Setting: Automates posting offers/events to Business Profile; set summary, call-to-action, and mediaAutomatable posting via scheduled triggers.
3.6. Buffer
• Feature/Setting: Automate multi-channel post queuing with Buffer API endpoint /updates/create; auto-assign timeslots, media, and hashtags.
3.7. Hootsuite
• Feature/Setting: Automate via Hootsuite API /messages; configure for bulk scheduling and real-time publishing.
3.8. Sprout Social
• Feature/Setting: Automate post queuing/import with Sprout’s publishing API; automate media attachment, schedule time, and analytics tagging.
3.9. Zoho Social
• Feature/Setting: Automate post queue management through Zoho Social API /posts; set target channels, time, and custom content variables.
3.10. Later
• Feature/Setting: Automates visual content scheduling via API, configure for Instagram grid planning and bulk uploads.
3.11. Sendible
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled posts, recurring queues, and analytics using Sendible’s /post/send API.
3.12. SocialPilot
• Feature/Setting: Automates post scheduling and RSS feed-based posting via SocialPilot API /accounts/post.
3.13. Agorapulse
• Feature/Setting: Automates bulk uploads, scheduled campaigns, and queue categories using Agorapulse API integration points.
3.14. ContentCal (Legacy)
• Feature/Setting: Automate content calendar workflows, auto-approve, and queue posts via ContentCal API /posts, integrating image automator.
3.15. Planable
• Feature/Setting: Automate multi-user approval chains and scheduled post publishing with Planable API endpoints.
3.16. Publer
• Feature/Setting: Automates cross-channel bulk scheduling and content recycling via Publer API.
3.17. Crowdfire
• Feature/Setting: Automates content discovery to posting pipeline with Crowdfire API, auto-curate based on trends.
3.18. MeetEdgar
• Feature/Setting: Automates evergreen post scheduling, auto-categorizes content using MeetEdgar platform API.
3.19. CoSchedule
• Feature/Setting: Automates calendar and social campaign management, uses POST /scheduledposts for timed automation.
3.20. SocialBee
• Feature/Setting: Automates category-based posting and RSS automation, schedule via SocialBee API.

Benefits

4.1. Automatedly increases consistency and frequency of social outreach for Arabic restaurants, boosting engagement.
4.2. Automates the reduction of manual errors and time spent on repetitive posting tasks.
4.3. Enables automating targeted campaigns for seasonality and special events, essential for Arabic cuisine promotions.
4.4. Streamlines the process to automate analytics retrieval and reporting for actionable marketing insights.
4.5. Improves team collaboration by automating multi-user approval and scheduling workflows.
4.6. Ensures posts are optimized and automatically published at the best engagement times through automation algorithms.
4.7. Facilitates easy scaling by automating across multiple channels and locations for growing Arab restaurant chains.