Best Time to Post Feature in Social Planner

Modified on: Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 at 2:02 PM

The Best Time to Post feature in HighLevel's Social Planner is a smart tool that uses your audience’s engagement data to optimize your posting schedule. Now you can ensure your posts go live at the perfect time to maximize reach and engagement.

What is Best Time to Post Feature?

The Best Time to Post feature in Social Planner is a data-driven tool designed to analyze your audience’s engagement patterns and suggest the optimal times for posting on social media. This feature enables you to plan your social content effectively, ensuring posts reach the largest possible audience when engagement is at its peak.

Key Benefits of the Best Time to Post Feature

This section explains the advantages of using the Best Time to Post feature, emphasizing how it improves scheduling efficiency and increases reach on social media platforms.

Optimized Posting: Recommendations based on audience engagement boost your content’s visibility.
User-Friendly Process: Easily integrated into your existing post creation with simple “Schedule” options.
Multi-Platform Support: Works seamlessly across all connected social accounts through Social Planner.
Enhanced Engagement: Posting during peak engagement times increases the chances of reaching a larger audience.

How To Use the Best Time to Post Feature

This guide breaks down the setup process into clear, sequential steps, ensuring you correctly enable and utilize the feature for optimal results in your social planning.

Step 1: Create a New Post

Navigate to Marketing from your sub-account.
Click on the Social Planner tab.
Click on the + New Post button.
Select + Create New Post or Upload From CSV.
Choose the social platforms under the Post to section where you intend to post.

Step 2: Add Your Post Content

Create your post by adding:
- Text
- Image or media
- Hashtags, mentions, etc.

Step 3: Use “Best Time to Post” Scheduling

Click on the down arrow beside post button and select Schedule Post option from the popup.
Review the suggested Best Time to Post options displayed based on your audience’s engagement trends.
Select a recommended time frame from the options.|
Click on the Schedule Post button.

Feature Availability and Platform Support

Understanding where and how you can use the Best Time to Post feature is crucial. This section highlights its availability across different interfaces in social planner.

Available in Post Composer and CSV Bulk Action for both basic and advanced post scheduling.
Not available in the mobile app, ensuring desktop-focused functionality for detailed planning.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What exactly does the Best Time to Post feature do?

It analyzes your audience’s engagement data to recommend the optimal posting times on your selected social platforms.

Q: Is the Best Time to Post feature available in the mobile app?

No, this feature is currently only available on the desktop version within the post composer and CSV bulk action interfaces.

Q: Can I manually change the suggested posting time?

Yes, after the recommendation is shown, you can adjust the time to better suit your posting strategy.

Q: Which social platforms does this feature support?

It is available for all social media accounts connected to Social Planner through HighLevel.

Q: Will there be updates to include other formats?

Yes, upcoming releases will expand support to include Recurring Posts, Review, RSS feeds, and Category Queue formats.