Administrators of Facebook pages probably know what Facebook Business Suite is and what it is for, but for all those who wonder what it is – we will write about it separately in one of the following blogs .

In this blog, we convey a big news, which comes precisely with the latest update of Facebook Business Suite .

Automatically publish and schedule Stories

Although the scheduling of stories has long been possible through intermediate platforms such as e.g. Hootsuite , it took a lot of time for Instagram ( Facebook ) to enable scheduling, but also automatic publication of stories through its own platforms.

Scheduling stories through certain platforms is still possible and it involves receiving a notification on the phone and “manually” publishing stories. However, Facebook has recently made it possible to schedule stories within its platform – Facebook Business Suite .

What exactly does that mean?

It simply means that you will be able to schedule stories to be published automatically. In the same way as the scheduling and automatic publication of posts has been enabled for a long time.

As you can see in the picture above, it is possible to schedule stories both on the Facebook page and on the Instagram Business profile.

After adding a visual, the following options open up:

• Adding more visuals (up to 10 stories – photo or video)
• Crop the visual (original format, 1:1 and 9:16) – Although there are three options here, usually the visual is pre-prepared in the appropriate, adjusted format (9:16) and then that original format is selected.
• Add text and select multiple font types.
• Adding a sticker

After setting all these items, it is possible to directly set the story ( Share Story ) but also to schedule it ( Schedule Story ).

It is important to note that stickers are among the items offered– have not found the same ones that are found within the application on the phone. That is, you cannot choose a sticker for the location, tag a profile, add a link and other possibilities that exist within the application. Among the offered stickers, there are only certain stickers and gifs that you can add to your story.

Although this new possibility of scheduling and automatically publishing stories is great news, it can be concluded that in this case it is not possible to use all the options that stori offers, due to the impossibility of using the Story Sticker .

We believe that this option will be enabled in the near future.

What is certain, with this option, a lot of time is saved on the time that was previously needed to publish stories through the Instagram application on the phone.

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