Do my customers need to authorize anything?
Yes. Each Instagram account connects through Meta’s OAuth, from your app or the dashboard. It must be a professional or creator account. Postmatic refreshes tokens and notifies you when the owner needs to authorize the account again.
Do I need to know how to code?
To integrate with your product, yes: the API is HTTP with JSON and has examples in cURL, Node and Python. The dashboard lets you connect accounts, publish and follow posts without code.
Can I message someone who never talked to the account?
An automation can send an initial private reply to a comment, once per comment and up to seven days after it. To continue, the person must respond; subsequent messages follow the 24-hour window after their latest reply. Outside automations, the messages API only replies to conversations with a prior message from that person.
What happens to the data captured in flows?
They reach your system through the automation.run event and are available in the API. Names, text, and answers are anonymized after 90 days. A route can erase captured data; for a definitive deletion request, pause the automation before using it.
Does Postmatic create the contact in my CRM?
Postmatic delivers the data through an event. Your application receives that event and performs actions such as creating or updating a contact in the CRM.
What happens if a post fails?
You receive post.failed with the error code and message, and can check it in the dashboard or the API. Temporary failures are retried automatically; authorization or content problems require reconnecting the account or fixing the post.
Which channels can I use?
Instagram is the first available channel. LinkedIn, X/Twitter, and TikTok are planned expansion, with no date set.
Will every platform have the same features?
Capabilities vary by platform. We document what each integration supports.
What are the current limits?
Current limits: up to 10 items and 5 accounts per post; captions up to 2,200 characters; Reels up to 15 min and 300 MB; scheduling from 1 minute to 75 days ahead; flows with up to 20 nodes.
How much does it cost?
Nothing during the initial phase, with usage limits and no credit card. Plans will be announced before any charge.