Channels

Where it is

Ask for reviews, also in the Business menu, gives you one link and a QR code to your own Google review form, and a message to copy. It needs a Google listing linked to your business. Joogoos sends nothing itself. Ask everyone and offer nothing for a review: Google removes reviews that were rewarded.

Channels is a step in the Business tab’s menu. It is there rather than in Settings or the Calendar because which Instagram this business posts as is a fact about the business, like its address.

Your website and your Google listing are under Website & analytics, one step above it.

Connecting an account

Six accounts are always listed: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and X. Press Connect and the platform’s own site asks you to sign in and to allow posting, nothing else. When you come back the row shows the account’s name and says posts can go out on it.

Only an owner of the workspace can connect, pause or disconnect an account. Someone invited to draft posts has not been handed the business’s public voice.

One account per platform per workspace. Connecting again replaces the account and keeps whatever was waiting to go out.

Instagram needs a Business or Creator account; it refuses to publish from a personal one.
Facebook needs a Page you administer; posts go to the Page, never to your own timeline.
TikTok takes video only, and asks for the privacy setting of every post, because TikTok requires that to be your choice each time.
YouTube needs a channel on the Google account you connect; a vertical video under a minute is published as a Short.
LinkedIn needs nothing but the sign-in; posts go out as you, on your own profile.
X needs a developer app on a paid X plan, because X charges for the right to post through it.

Testing a connection

Each connected account has Test the connection. It asks the platform, once, which account this is, using the permission Joogoos holds. Nothing is posted. The line beside it then says Checked and the time: works, or the platform’s reason in its own words.

If the platform says the permission is gone, the account shows Connect again, the same as when a post fails for that reason. TikTok can answer that the account works but cannot post today, and the line says why.

X charges for every call to its API, this one included. Its button says it is a paid call and asks before it runs. Joogoos never tests an account by itself; only the button does.

Not on this box yet

A platform whose row says not on this box yet cannot be connected here, because Joogoos has not been given its keys. Ask, or wait: the row will offer Connect when it has them.

Posting

A finished post in the Studio has Schedule and Post now. Both open the same dialog: what it says, which of your connected accounts it goes to, and, for Schedule, when. Post now means about a minute, and you can take it back until then.

A post is one row per account. An account the platform would refuse for this post, a picture offered to TikTok for one, is shown with the reason and cannot be ticked.

Each account you tick gets a tab beside Everywhere, at the top of the dialog. In it are that account’s own words, which start as the words that go everywhere and stay its own once you change them, and the picture or video in the frame that network shows it in. Words too long for a network, X for one, are shown in its tab with the reason, and the Post button waits until they fit.

Rewrite for, in a network’s tab, rewrites the words for that network: shorter for X, a title line for YouTube. It is a paid step, a cent or so, it adds nothing you did not say, and Put my words back undoes it. Instagram’s tab also asks whether a picture is a feed post or a story, and a video a Reel or a story; a story carries no words.

Nothing goes out without a person pressing that button. Publishing costs nothing and is not a paid call.

Pausing and disconnecting

Pause keeps the account connected and stops posts going out on it. Disconnect asks once, then gives the permission back to the platform before the account is forgotten. Posts that already went out stay on the Calendar under the platform’s name.

When a platform stops accepting the connection, the row says so once, with what the platform said and a Connect again button. Nothing goes out on it until you do.

Not yet

Business: Your business, step by step: the page every brief is written from, your look and photos, your website, channels, customers and SEO.
Making it: Pipeline, Editor and Download: Watching a project being made, rerunning a shot, and taking the finished video.
Calendar: What is scheduled, by month, week or list: a card per post per channel, coloured by what happened to it.
Analytics: Who came to your website, who sent them, what they read, who got in touch, and what to make next.
What Joogoos does not do yet: Everything a screen shows or mentions that does not work yet, in one place.