Title: Guides — automated social posting for Shopify | AutoPost Description: Step-by-step guides: building automations, writing product templates and AI captions, publishing to Instagram and Facebook, TikTok setup and media rules, and planning a posting calendar. Canonical URL: https://autopostbyamasty.com/guides/index.html Product: AutoPost — AI Social Media Posting — a Shopify app by Amasty (https://apps.shopify.com/autopost-social-media-ai-post) Updated: September 9, 2026 --- Guides # Practical guides for automated social posting Step-by-step walkthroughs written for store owners: building automations that do not spam, turning product data into copy people actually read, and meeting each platform's own publishing rules. [Automations · 7 min read Building your first automation From an empty Automations page to a rule that publishes new arrivals three times a week — with the conditions, publication order and end-of-run behaviour explained field by field. Read the guide →](https://autopostbyamasty.com/build-first-automation.html) [Content · 7 min read Writing product templates and AI captions that convert How to combine fixed brand copy, product variables and AI blocks, how to prompt for a specific tone, and which caption patterns suit each network. Read the guide →](https://autopostbyamasty.com/product-templates-and-ai-captions.html) [Instagram & Facebook · 7 min read Publishing to Instagram and Facebook from Shopify Professional accounts, the linked Page requirement, when to publish a Reel instead of a feed post, and how to keep one automation working well on both networks. Read the guide →](https://autopostbyamasty.com/instagram-and-facebook-publishing.html) [Planning · 6 min read A social content calendar for a Shopify store A workable weekly plan for a small store: how much to post, what to post on each network, and which automations to run in parallel without repeating yourself. Read the guide →](https://autopostbyamasty.com/social-content-calendar-for-shopify.html) [TikTok · 8 min read How to auto-post Shopify products to TikTok The complete setup: connecting the account, choosing between video and photo posts, writing a caption template that works on TikTok, and picking a posting rhythm you can sustain. Read the guide →](https://autopostbyamasty.com/auto-post-shopify-products-to-tiktok.html) [TikTok · 6 min read TikTok video and photo requirements, and how to stay inside them Formats, resolutions, file sizes, durations and caption limits — plus the failure reasons TikTok returns most often and what each one actually means. Read the guide →](https://autopostbyamasty.com/tiktok-video-photo-requirements.html) ### Looking for the manual? These guides cover strategy and common setups. For a screen-by-screen reference of every field in the app, use the [user documentation](https://guide.amasty.com/sf/guide/guide-for-autopost-social-media-ai-post-sf.html). ### Per-network reference Post types, permissions, account requirements and caption limits for each network live on the [integration pages](https://autopostbyamasty.com/integrations.html).