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Moving from another scheduling tool is mostly about the handover week — making sure posts don’t go out twice, or stop going out entirely.

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What doesn’t come across

Set expectations here first, because there’s no import:
  • Scheduled posts. Anything queued in your old tool stays there. It will keep publishing from that tool until you stop it.
  • Past posts and their history. Ocoya shows what it published, so your record starts now.
  • Drafts, templates and saved captions.
Ocoya has no bulk import, so anything you want to keep comes across by hand.

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The order that avoids double-posting

1

Set up the brand before touching the old tool

Time zone, brand profile, then channels. See Setting up your first brand.
2

Connect your channels in Ocoya

Connecting Ocoya doesn’t disconnect the other tool — both can hold access at once, which is what makes an overlap possible. See Connect a social channel.
3

Pick a switchover date

A clean line: the old tool publishes up to it, Ocoya publishes after.
4

Stop scheduling in the old tool

From that date, everything new goes into Ocoya.
5

Let the old queue drain, or clear it

Either let its remaining posts go out and re-create anything after your switchover date in Ocoya, or delete its queue and re-create everything. Don’t schedule the same post in both.
6

Disconnect Ocoya's predecessor at each network

Once nothing is queued there, revoke the old tool in each network’s connected-apps settings. That’s what actually stops it publishing. See Disconnect a channel for where those settings live.
The failure mode is both tools holding a queue for the same week. Check the old tool is empty past your switchover date before you stop watching it.

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Bringing content with you

Captions worth keeping — paste them into a post and save it as a draft. Hashtag sets — recreate them as hashtag libraries. Worth doing early, because they also stop the AI inventing tags. Your posting schedule — if the old tool had a queue with set times, recreate those as posting slots.

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Two things that work differently here

Credits. AI generation costs credits; scheduling and publishing don’t. If you came from a tool that charged per seat or per post, the thing to watch is generation, not volume. See What are credits? One brand holds every channel for one business, rather than a separate container per channel or per account. Agencies run one brand per client on a single subscription. See Brands and channels.

Setting up your first brand

The first ten minutes.

Plan a week of content

Getting ahead once you’ve moved.