The Pin Publisher walk-through
A complete tour of every menu and feature — from linking your Pinterest account to watching the first scheduled pin go live on its own.
Seven steps to your first scheduled pin
Link your Pinterest account
Head into Settings and authorize your Pinterest profile so the queue can publish for you. You can plug in as many profiles as you manage.
Pull in your boards
Inside Settings, tap Sync boards. Pin Publisher fetches every board from each connected profile so they're ready to be wired up to buckets.
Spin up a bucket
Buckets are containers that gather pins by topic, board, or campaign. Each one points at a single Pinterest board.
Stock it with pins
Upload images one at a time, bulk import a CSV or XLSX sheet, or stash pins in Drafts and assign them to a bucket whenever you're ready.
Sketch a posting plan
Create a plan, choose a timezone, and add weekly time slots. Each slot pulls one pin from its bucket when its turn arrives.
Let the queue run
Slots turn into recurring schedules and Pin Publisher picks the next available pin to ship — no manual generate step needed.
How the pieces fit together
Everything orbits three ideas — buckets, plans, and the queue.
Buckets
Themed groups of pins. Each bucket points at a Pinterest board and feeds one or more time slots in your plan.
Plans
A weekly grid of time slots. Each slot says: on this day, at this hour, post one pin from this bucket.
Queue
Slots get rolled forward into dated posts. You can see them all on Planned and tweak any one before it ships.
Tools that pull their weight
The pieces that turn Pin Publisher into a genuinely hands-off scheduler.
Evergreen replay
Flip Recycle on when you set up a bucket. Once every pin has been posted at least once, Pin Publisher quietly cycles them back into the queue.
Bulk spreadsheet uploads
Drop a CSV or XLSX onto the Import button and queue hundreds of pins at once — titles, descriptions, links, and image URLs included.
Multiple Pinterest accounts
Connect any number of Pinterest profiles and wire each one to its own buckets and plans.
Bucket groups
Bundle buckets into named groups — Seasonal, Evergreen, Promos — to keep large libraries readable.
Publish on demand
Need to ship something immediately? Use Post now on any queued item to bypass the schedule.
Notifications
The bell in the top bar bubbles up failures and important events, so nothing meaningful slips past you.
Power tips
Small habits that get a lot more mileage out of Pin Publisher.
Use Drafts for ideas-in-progress
Pick 'Save as draft' in the upload dialog for pins that aren't ready to ship. They'll sit patiently in Drafts until you move them into a bucket.
One bucket can feed many slots
Wire the same bucket into several slots across the week to keep visibility steady without juggling content.
Pause without losing the queue
You can pause any bucket or whole plan whenever you need to. Nothing is wiped — publishing simply waits until you resume.
Active date windows
Give a bucket an active-from / active-to range when it covers seasonal or campaign content. It'll only post inside the window.
Reschedule from the calendar
Open any upcoming post in the Planned calendar to reschedule it, ship it immediately, or take it out of the queue.
Sweep the dashboard each morning
Home gives you the checklist, the day's queue, and any recent failures in one glance — a fifteen-second check covers it.
Quick FAQ
Is there a 'Generate' button I need to press?
No — the moment you add a time slot to a plan, Pin Publisher rolls it forward into the queue automatically. Your job is just to keep buckets stocked.
What happens if a pin fails to publish?
It lands in History → Failed with the exact error. Retry it one-by-one or in bulk, and the bell in the top bar will give you a heads-up.
Can the same pin go out more than once?
Yes — switch on Recycle for the bucket. Once every pin in there has been posted at least once, Pin Publisher quietly cycles them back.
How do drafts work?
Drafts are pins you've saved without a bucket. They don't enter the schedule until you move them into a bucket from the Drafts page.
Do you ever store my Pinterest password?
No. Pin Publisher uses Pinterest's official OAuth — you sign in on Pinterest's own site, and we only ever receive a revocable access token.
Ready to ship your first pin?
Open a free account and follow the built-in checklist on the dashboard — it'll walk you through everything.