Written with AI assistance, then fact-checked and approved by Thomas Lovas Lokoy.
Last updated: October 2026
The short answer: to schedule a month of social posts in Vista Social, connect your profiles, plan content categories, draft captions with the built-in AI Assistant, then upload the whole month at once with Bulk publishing (a CSV of up to 100 posts per file) and check the calendar before anything goes live. Vista Social has no free-forever plan on its pricing page, but it offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card, which is enough time to follow this tutorial end to end.
Posting consistently is one of the most useful marketing habits for a small business and one of the most time-consuming. Batching — planning and scheduling a whole month in one sitting — is what makes it sustainable. Below are the six steps, using the features Vista Social documents in its own help centre. Menu names change as the product is updated, so if a label differs slightly on your screen, search the help centre for the feature name.
Step 1 — Start a Trial and Connect Your Profiles
Head to Vista Social and start the 14-day free trial. Then connect the profiles you post to. Vista Social’s pricing page lists Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Google Business, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Threads and Bluesky, and each connection uses the platform’s own authorisation.
Check your plan’s profile limit before you connect everything. Each profile is one account on one network, and the plan you need is decided by how many you have. Vista Social’s pricing page, checked on 16 October 2026, lists prices in dollars:
- Professional: $99 a month or $950 a year — 15 profiles and 1,000 AI credits a month.
- Advanced: $199 a month or $1,910 a year — 30 profiles and 2,000 AI credits a month.
- Scale: $449 a month or $4,310 a year — 70 profiles and 3,500 AI credits a month, with extra profiles sold in increments of 10.
- Enterprise: custom pricing, unlimited profiles and AI credits.
Worked example: a small business posting to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok uses 4 of Professional’s 15 profiles. On annual billing that is $950 ÷ 12 ≈ $79.17 a month, against $99 month to month — about $238 a year saved by paying upfront, if you are sure you will keep it. Spread across all 15 profiles, Professional works out at $6.60 per profile per month on monthly billing; you only reach that rate if you actually fill the plan. One detail to confirm in the trial: the plan table lists 2 users on Professional and 3 on Advanced, while the FAQ on the same page says 3 and 6.
Step 2 — Plan Your Content Mix Before You Write
A month of posts is easier to write when you decide the mix first. Pick four or five content types and roughly how often each appears:
- Educational: tips, how-to posts, industry insights.
- Promotional: product launches, offers, feature spotlights.
- Behind the scenes: team, process, how things are made.
- Social proof: customer stories, testimonials, reposts.
- Engagement: questions, polls, timely topics.
Then choose a realistic frequency per network — one you can keep up after the month ends. It is better to post three times a week for a year than twice a day for three weeks.
Step 3 — Draft Captions With the AI Assistant
Vista Social’s AI Assistant is powered by ChatGPT, according to its help centre. Describe the post in a prompt — topic, audience, tone and the action you want — and it writes a caption; click generate again to get more variations. Edit the one you like into your own voice, and adapt length per network: longer and more explanatory on LinkedIn, shorter on X, more visual on Instagram.
The AI Assistant is included on every paid plan with a monthly credit allowance, so drafting a whole month of captions in one sitting is realistic. Keep a human pass on every caption: AI copy tends to sound generic and occasionally states things that are not true about your business.
Step 4 — Upload the Month With Bulk Publishing
This is where the time saving happens. Instead of creating posts one by one, prepare them in a spreadsheet and upload them together:
- Go to Create → Bulk publishing and choose Import from CSV.
- Click Download Sample to get Vista Social’s template. The first four columns are fixed and must stay in the same order with the same headings.
- Fill in your posts — you can paste in the captions from Step 3 — and save the file as CSV UTF-8 (comma-delimited) so emoji and special characters survive.
- Click Upload CSV File. Each file takes up to 100 posts, and you can upload as many files as you need. If a row has a problem, such as a date format, Vista Social reports the exact line number.
- Select the imported posts and add them to your calendar; click any post to change its text or time.
For scale: three posts a week on each of four profiles is 48 posts in a four-week month, comfortably inside one 100-post file. Keep one file per month and name it by month, so next month’s batch starts from a copy of this one.
Once they are on the calendar, review the month for balance: too many promotional posts in one week, or a gap over a holiday, is easy to spot in the calendar view and easy to fix by moving posts.
Step 5 — Add an Approval Step
If a colleague or client needs to sign off posts, use approvals. When someone schedules a post for your approval, Vista Social sends an email and a push notification in its app, and the post is labelled REVIEW in purple on the calendar until it is approved. The pricing page describes a post approval workflow on Professional and, on Advanced, “sophisticated content approval workflows for internal and outside teams and clients” — so if a client has to sign off separately from your own team, test that flow during the trial before choosing Professional.
Even as a solo user, an approval step is a useful final check before anything publishes — a simple way to catch typos and wrong dates.
Step 6 — Reply From the Social Inbox and Review Results
Scheduling is half the job; replying is the other half. Vista Social’s social inbox gathers comments and messages from your connected profiles in one place, and its help centre documents using the AI Assistant to draft replies to messages, comments and reviews. Check the inbox at set times each day rather than all day.
At the end of the month, look at which posts earned engagement and which fell flat, then adjust the content mix and frequency for the next batch. That review is what turns one productive afternoon into a system.
Schedule a full month of content in one sitting
Start the 14-Day Vista Social Trial →For Vista Social’s plans and how it compares with other schedulers, read our Vista Social review. Writing captions elsewhere first? Our guide to AI tools for content creators and AI tools for marketers cover the rest of the stack. Browse more tools in our AI for Business category.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I schedule posts in Vista Social?
Connect your social profiles, create a post (optionally drafting the caption with the AI Assistant), choose the profiles and the publishing time, and schedule it. For a whole month at once, use Create → Bulk publishing and import a CSV of up to 100 posts per file.
Is Vista Social free?
There is no free-forever plan on Vista Social’s pricing page. It offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card needed. Paid plans are Professional, Advanced and Scale, with Enterprise on request.
How much does Vista Social cost per month?
In October 2026 its pricing page listed Professional at $99 a month ($950 a year) for 15 profiles, Advanced at $199 ($1,910 a year) for 30, and Scale at $449 ($4,310 a year) for 70, with Enterprise priced on request. Annual billing on Professional works out at about $79 a month.
Can I bulk upload posts to Vista Social?
Yes. Bulk publishing imports posts from a CSV file in UTF-8 format using Vista Social’s sample template. Each file holds up to 100 posts and there is no limit on the number of uploads; errors are reported with the line number.
Does Vista Social support TikTok, Threads and Bluesky?
Yes. Its pricing page lists TikTok, Threads and Bluesky alongside Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Google Business, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat and Tumblr.
Does Vista Social have AI?
Yes. Its AI Assistant, powered by ChatGPT according to Vista Social, drafts post captions and replies to messages, comments and reviews. Paid plans include a monthly AI credit allowance.
