How it works

From spreadsheet to scheduled in five clear steps

A complete walkthrough of how Pin Publisher turns a folder of images or a spreadsheet of pin ideas into weeks of consistent, automatic Pinterest posting.

Connect Pinterest

One-click OAuth, no passwords stored.

Sign in to Pin Publisher with email or Google, then click Connect Pinterest. You'll be redirected to Pinterest's official authorization screen. Approve, and Pin Publisher syncs your boards automatically — typically in 5–10 seconds.

Requires a Pinterest Business account (free to convert from personal)
Connect as many profiles as you manage — agencies, clients, side projects
Revoke access at any time from Pin Publisher Settings or Pinterest's app settings
Tokens are encrypted at rest and refreshed automatically

Import your pins

CSV, XLSX, or drag-and-drop images.

Drop a spreadsheet of image URLs, titles, descriptions, links, and board names — Pin Publisher parses it into a Drafts queue. Or upload images directly and fill in metadata inline. Review every draft before pushing it into a bucket.

Spreadsheet template provided — works with Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers
Per-row board targeting so different pins land on different boards
Inline editor for last-minute tweaks
Bulk-move drafts into any bucket in one action

Organize into buckets

Group pins by topic, niche, or campaign.

Buckets are how Pin Publisher keeps your queue organized. Each bucket holds related pins, points at one or more boards, and follows its own posting schedule and recycle rules. A typical blogger has buckets for Recipes, Travel, Lifestyle — each pinning at its own cadence.

Unlimited buckets per profile
Color and icon labels for quick identification
Reorder pins inside a bucket to control posting priority
Group buckets into 'bucket groups' when you manage many at once

Build a weekly posting plan

Pick days, times, and pins-per-slot.

Open a bucket's schedule editor and click any cell in the week grid to add a slot. Set how many pins should fire at that time. Pin Publisher materializes the next weeks of slots automatically and refills them as you add pins to the bucket.

Per-bucket schedule — no global one-size-fits-all calendar
Timezone-aware (uses your profile's timezone)
Visual preview of the next 4 weeks before you save
Edit or pause a plan any time without losing scheduled pins

Pin Publisher auto-publishes

A background worker posts due pins every minute.

Every minute, Pin Publisher checks for slots that are due, grabs the next pin from the bucket, and publishes it to the target board via Pinterest's official API. You get notified instantly if anything fails, with a one-click retry.

Average post latency well under a minute
Automatic retries on transient Pinterest errors
Full posting history with success/failure per pin
Recycle rule kicks in when a bucket runs low — your queue never empties

What "set it and forget it" actually means

Once your buckets have pins and your plans are saved, Pin Publisher runs without intervention. Here's the typical weekly rhythm.

Sunday

Bulk-import 20–30 new pins from a spreadsheet, drop into buckets.

Mon–Sat

Pin Publisher publishes on schedule. You check the calendar maybe twice.

Always

If anything fails, you get a notification with one-click retry.

Ready to schedule your first 30 pins?

It takes under 10 minutes from sign-up to first scheduled pin.

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