I have tons of space for an elaborate intro, but let me cut to the chase because I’m so unbelievably excited: Instagram direct publishing is now available on Agorapulse.

That means you can hop on your app, upload a photo, and post, schedule, or queue it up — just like you’re used to with publishing your Facebook and Twitter content. Long gone are those pesky notifications and posts in No Man’s Land.

You can now use your favorite social media management tool to post directly to Instagram.

Say hello to time saved.

There’s about a minute of setup to do before you get started scheduling all your content. You need to tell Instagram (and their parent Facebook) that you want to use Agorapulse to post directly on your behalf.

You can enable Instagram direct publishing on the upper right-hand side of your content calendar in your publishing tab.

instagram direct publishing enable

Or you can click the orange “Publish” button on your dashboard and click or tap the “enable direct publishing” button at the bottom left-hand corner of your publish panel.

Enable direct Instagram publishing

Whichever route you take, keep in mind that you can only enable Instagram direct publishing for business accounts. This is a current restriction of the Instagram API that we will follow as a loyal Instagram Partner.

If you already have a business account — like 80 percent of all our…