Moving from another scheduling tool is mostly about the handover week — making sure posts don’t go out twice, or stop going out entirely.
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.
The order that avoids double-posting
Set up the brand before touching the old tool
Time zone, brand profile, then channels. See Setting up your first brand.
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.
Pick a switchover date
A clean line: the old tool publishes up to it, Ocoya publishes after.
Stop scheduling in the old tool
From that date, everything new goes into Ocoya.
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.
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.
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.
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.