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How to Connect Your Social Accounts to Your Calendar
How to Connect Your Social Accounts to Your Calendar

This guide covers how to connect your social accounts to your calendar!

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How to Connect Social Accounts (Video)

Use this guide to connect a supported social account to your calendar as well as how to find your page for each network.


Facebook and Instagram Professional Accounts

Step 1: Go to the Calendar Settings page by clicking the gear icon on your dashboard or in the left hand navigation bar from any other page in HeyOrca.

a screenshot illustrating the Calendar Settings gear icon on the dashboard

Step 2: Choose what type of account you would like to connect to that calendar.

We currently support Direct Publishing for the following social media networks:

  • Facebook Pages

  • X (Twitter) Profiles

  • Instagram Business Accounts (Image/Video Posts and Reels)

  • TikTok Business Accounts

  • LinkedIn Personal, Showcase, and Company Pages

  • Google My Business

  • Pinterest

a screenshot displaying where to add social accounts to your calendar

Step 3: Make sure you have the right permissions.

  • Facebook - Admin on the Facebook page.

  • Instagram Business - Admin on the Facebook page that is connected to the Instagram Business account.

  • LinkedIn Company and Showcase - You need to be a Content Admin or a Super Admin on the LinkedIn Page.

  • TikTok, X, LinkedIn Personal, Instagram Personal Google My Business, Pinterest - Must be logged in to the account you are trying to connect to HeyOrca in your browser.

Step 4: You will be redirected from HeyOrca to the social network you are trying to connect to authorize the connection.

a screenshot displaying the connection page for Facebook access

Step 5: Choose the page that you want to connect and that's it!

Once your account has been added, you'll be redirected back to your settings page to add more accounts.

Not Seeing the Page You're Looking For?

For Facebook and Instagram Business:

Step 1: Click Edit Settings on this page.

a screenshot displaying the Edit Settings page

Step 2: Make sure ALL pages are selected, then click Next. For Instagram, you will see 2 pages like this - one for Facebook and one for Instagram.

a screenshot displaying the pages you want to use with HeyOrca

Step 3: Make sure all these options are turned on and click done!

a screenshot displaying HeyOrca Permissions



For X, Instagram Personal, Google My Business and LinkedIn Personal

You can use the guide below:

Step 1: Open a separate browser tab and log in to the account you are trying to connect.
Step 2: Go back to HeyOrca and try to connect the account again.


Need to plan for another network or don't have publishing permissions for the account?

Try a Placeholder Account!

a screenshot displaying what a scheduled placeholder post looks like on your calendar

Connect Placeholder Accounts to act as placeholders on your calendar. Plan your content for channels like Reddit, emails or even blog posts!

Collaborate with team members on edits, and send to your clients for approval. The only difference is you’ll have to publish placeholder content manually.

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