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How to Prepare the DM for Your Next Post

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Written by Evelyn Hartz
Updated over 2 weeks ago

What is it?

The magic of Grocer's List is that 99% of the time your DM's send automatically and you don't even have to think about it.

But, occasionally you might want to customize the way a DM looks in advance. For example, if you want to add some specific text or an affiliate button or if you want to leave the link off your post caption, but include it in the DM.

That's where our 'prepare next post' feature comes in. You can prepare your next post's DM and customize every inch of the DM ahead of the post being published.

How to Prepare Your Next Post:

  1. Login to Grocer's List and head over to Comment for Recipe.

  2. Click on the +Prepare Next Post button.
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  3. Now, you can set up every detail of your DM for your next post.

    • Add a link

    • Set the image

    • Configure your buttons

  4. Hit the Save & Activate button.
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Things to Note:

  • Once you prepare your DM and hit the Save & Activate button, we will listen for your next Instagram/Facebook post and apply your configurations to it. You cannot schedule multiple posts in advance yet at this time.
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  • You can prepare one post per platform at a time. Once your posts are configured, it will appear in a Next Post Queue above the Posts & Reels table.
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  • If a field is left blank, we'll pull from your default settings. You can see your defaults by navigating to Setup & Defaults tab under Comment for DM and clicking the Edit Default DM Settings button.
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  • If you prepare a post and leave out the image, we will still pull it from the cover image of the post once the post is published.

Questions? Feel free to reach out to [email protected]. We're here to help!

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