Scheduling & Posting
Schedule your posts, publish on time, and confirm them with the brand.
When the brand pays, the deal becomes Paid & Scheduled and appears in the Scheduled tab of your Scheduler. That is the platform’s side done. Everything after it is yours:
- Create the content and post it yourself on your own account, on the agreed date, following the brief.
- Come back to the deal chat and tap Submit Post URL on the offer card.
- Paste the link to the post and tap Submit URL. You should see Your Post URL submitted successfully.
- The brand is notified and reviews it. Approval is what releases your money.
Ainfluencer does not post for you. There is no auto-publishing: the Scheduler is a reminder and tracking tool, not a publishing tool. If you wait for the platform to post on the agreed date, nothing happens and the deal fails two days later.
You have a short grace period, and then the deal fails on its own.
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| The publish date passes with nothing submitted | Nothing yet. The deal is late but still live, and the offer card says you can still publish |
| 2 days after the publish date | The deal is marked Failed and moves to the Failed tab. You get a push: Content failed to be published! |
| 3 days after the publish date | The brand is refunded automatically |
Between the failure and the refund you can still rescue it. Post the content and submit the link as normal: submitting after a failure revives the deal and pushes the clock forward again.
If you know in advance that you will be late, use Extend Deadline on the offer card before the date passes rather than after. The new date has to be in the future, and agreeing it with the brand in chat first makes it far more likely to be accepted.
This confuses almost everyone, because a deal you have just delivered disappears from all three tabs.
| Tab | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Scheduled | Paid deals where you have submitted nothing yet |
| Published | Deals that have been approved |
| Failed | Deals that expired or were failed by the timer |
| Nowhere | Deals waiting for approval. Once you submit a link, the deal leaves Scheduled and does not reach Published until the brand approves |
So a deal missing from the Scheduler right after you submitted is the normal case, not a lost submission.
Find it in your inbox chat instead. The offer card will read Published & Waiting Approval, which confirms the link was received.
In the deal chat, on the offer card, using Submit Post URL. It is also in the chat menu. Pasting the link as a chat message does not submit it, and the brand cannot approve from a message.
| Rule | Detail |
|---|---|
| How many links | Up to 5 per submission |
| What format | The direct link to the post, from Share, Copy link on the post itself |
| What is rejected | Your profile link, a duplicate of a link you already added, or a link whose format does not match the platform |
| Content-only deals | Use Upload Content to send the files instead of a link |
| Changing it later | You can use Edit URL until it is approved, and at least one item must always remain |
The URL format is invalid almost always means you pasted your profile link rather than the post link. Open the post, tap Share, then Copy link, and paste that.
This is the single most expensive mistake on the platform, and it is not obvious.
When you submit a link, our system tries to open the post and save a copy of the media and caption. If that works, the clock is pushed forward about a week, which gives the brand time to review. If it does not work, the clock is not extended at all.
| What you submitted | Can we read it? | How long the brand has |
|---|---|---|
| A public Instagram, TikTok or YouTube post | Yes | About 10 days from your submission |
| Files uploaded through Upload Content | Yes, they are on the platform | About 10 days from your upload |
| An Instagram or TikTok story | No | Only until 2 to 3 days after the agreed publish date |
| A private or restricted post | No | The same |
| A link on a site we do not support | No | The same |
So if you deliver a story on the publish date itself, the brand may have under 48 hours to approve before the deal fails and the money goes back. Also upload a screen recording through Upload Content. That gives us something readable, puts you on the ten day clock, and leaves the brand proof the story ran.
Reminder pushes are scheduled the moment the brand pays, at 72, 24, 12, 6 and 3 hours before the publish date. Only the ones still in the future are sent, so a deal paid the day before the date will only get the last two or three.
They keep arriving after you submit because of a known bug on our side: the reminder checks an old field that current submissions do not fill. Your submission is safe. Confirm it by opening the deal chat and checking the card reads Published & Waiting Approval, then ignore the reminders.
Reminders are scheduled while the offer-paid email is built, so a creator who unsubscribed from our emails may get no reminders at all. If you rely on them, keep offer emails switched on in your notification settings.
Yes, as long as the money has not gone back to the brand yet. The offer card says so plainly: You are late but you can still publish the post and submit its URL.
- Check the deal is still showing as paid rather than refunded.
- Post the content.
- Tap Submit Post URL as normal.
- Submitting revives the deal and moves the clock forward again, so the brand gets a fresh window to approve.
Once the refund has happened, this stops working and you cannot fix it from the app. The brand would have to approve the deal again, which re-charges their wallet, so message them before you do anything else. The gap between failure and refund is about a day.
For exactly as long as the offer’s Duration says. This is a real term on the deal, not an informal understanding:
| Duration | What you agreed to |
|---|---|
| Permanent | The post stays up. Taking it down later breaks the agreement |
| Temporary | It can come down after the agreed period, which must be more than four hours |
Check which one your deal says before you post, and before you delete anything. If it is not what you discussed, raise it in the chat while the offer can still be edited.
| Stage | Editing your submitted link | Deleting the live post |
|---|---|---|
| Before approval | Edit URL is available, and you can add or remove files as long as one remains | Do not. The brand is about to check the link and will find nothing |
| After approval | Locked. You can’t change the URL while it’s approved | Only if the Duration was Temporary and that period has passed |
Our system confirms that a post existed when you submitted it. It does not keep watching to see whether it is still there. So a post taken down early is a trust problem between you and the brand rather than something that trips a timer, and it is the kind of thing that decides whether they book you again.
Four things, in this order. Three of the four are fixable by you in a minute:
- Is the post public? A private account or a restricted-audience post cannot be fetched or reviewed.
- Is it still live? Check the link yourself in a logged-out browser.
- Did you submit the post link, not your profile link?
- Does the deal chat show Published & Waiting Approval? If it still says Paid & Scheduled, the submission did not save.
Also paste the link into the chat as a message. That does not count as submitting it, but it gives the brand something to click immediately, and it puts the link in the record if support needs to look later.
No. Wait until the brand has paid. This is the mistake that costs creators the most, and it is treated seriously.
An accepted offer is not a funded one. Until the brand pays, the money is not held anywhere, there is no deal for us to enforce, and if they go quiet you have worked for nothing. Delivering or posting for a brand that has not funded the deal is against the platform terms, and creators have received formal warnings for it.
| What the offer says | What it means | Should you start work? |
|---|---|---|
| Waiting Brand Approval | They have not accepted your offer yet | No |
| Waiting Payment | Accepted, but the money is not escrowed | No |
| Paid & Scheduled | The money is held by Ainfluencer | Yes. Start now |
If a brand asks you to post first and says they will pay afterwards, say no and tell us. That request is itself a warning sign, and the whole reason the platform holds the money in advance is so you never have to take that risk.
No, and it can work against you.
Payment is released by approval, not by posting, and the brand’s review window is not shortened because you were early. If you post a week before the agreed date, the brand still has their full window from the agreed date to review.
Posting early is fine if the brand agreed to it, but tell them in the chat when you do. The thing that actually speeds up your payment is a brand who knows there is something waiting for them to approve.
$10. That is the floor for a paid collaboration, and in practice a large share of deals on the platform are at exactly that figure.
Brands sometimes ask creators to work for less, or to do a commission-only deal with no fee at all. Commission-only is legitimate if the brand has set up an affiliate programme on Ainfluencer, because then the tracking and the payment run through us. If they want to handle it themselves, outside the platform, that is not a deal we can protect.
At $10 the platform fee leaves you $8. Think about whether the content is worth making at that price before accepting, because a cheap deal takes the same work as an expensive one and your delivery record is the same either way.
Contact details are hidden in the chat until the offer is paid. That includes addresses, phone numbers, emails and messaging apps. It is not a bug and it is not aimed at you.
| Situation | Can you share an address? |
|---|---|
| The offer is not paid yet | No, it will be hidden |
| The offer is paid | Yes, sharing opens up |
| A gifting conversation | Yes, those are not hidden |
| The brand is on the Ultimate plan | Yes, their chat is open |
So if a brand needs your shipping address, the sequence is: they pay first, then you send it. If they are asking for it before paying, point them at this rule rather than trying to work around the filter. Attempts to get contact details past the filter are reviewed every night and can lead to a warning.
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