Getting started with RankTalon

Use the business profile you intend to publish for. If a screen asks you to select a business, choose that profile; the Calendar uses the business context active for your workspace.

Check that the website and business details shown in Visual Identity belong to the right business before you create content.

Open Integrations and connect the destination for your post: Facebook, Instagram, or Google Business Profile. The options available later depend on the connected account and the post type.

Confirm that the business details and visual assets in Visual Identity are current. This keeps your review focused on the right business before you prepare a post.

In Visual Identity, open Content ideas bank and choose Social posts. You can select Generate 50 ideas or add an idea manually. Then open the Calendar to prepare a post around the topic you chose.

Read the post text, check its selected destination, and inspect any attached artwork before scheduling or publishing. A completed generation is still a draft; it does not by itself mean the destination accepted a post.

If you’re not ready, leave the item in Draft. To choose a future time, use the Calendar’s Schedule a post flow and select Add to calendar. To send a reviewed post immediately, use Publish now when that action is available for the selected destination.

After taking action, check the Calendar status rather than assuming the post succeeded.

Know what the Calendar is telling you

Draft, Scheduled, Published, and Error

The status describes where the post is in its publishing lifecycle. The Calendar’s visible failure label is Error.

Draft

Saved for review; it has not been scheduled or published.

Scheduled

Set for a future publishing time.

Published

The Calendar reports that the post was published.

Error

Publishing did not complete successfully; open the item for its available details.

You can pause without changing modes

Pause or resume the saved schedule

In Automation settings, use Pause automation to pause the saved schedule, or Resume automation to resume it. This control changes the schedule pause state; it does not switch operating mode or change destinations.

Manual Mode is a separate operating mode. The Automation settings page says scheduled automation stays off until you switch to Automatic Agent Mode in Settings. Changing modes is not the same as cancelling individual scheduled posts.