SocialAutoUpload User Guide · Volume 3 — Channels & Platform Setup · Lesson 6

Publishing Profiles: group your channels

Level: Beginner Time: ~10 min Prerequisites: at least one channel (Lessons 3–5) Audience: creators

Purpose

A Publishing Profile is a saved set of channels you can load in one tap — so you're not re-picking the same accounts for every post. It also remembers your per-platform settings and links to a specific AI key. This is optional but it makes daily publishing much faster.

Create Profile — group channels per brand or client and publish to the whole set in one click. (Channel names blurred.)

What a profile is

A profile bundles together:

A set of channels — for example "All my channels", or "Brand A only", or "Just Instagram + TikTok".
Per-platform default settings — your usual YouTube privacy, TikTok options, and so on, so a loaded profile arrives pre-configured.
An optional name, colour and icon to tell profiles apart at a glance.

Profiles matter in two places: in the composer you load one to fill your channel selection instantly, and your Telegram bot publishes to exactly the profile you linked it to in Lesson 5.

How many profiles you get

Plan	Free	Creator	Pro	Agency
Publishing profiles	1	2	unlimited	unlimited

On the Free plan you have a single profile — perfect for "all my channels". Managing separate brands or clients is where more profiles (and a paid plan) earn their keep. Try to create more than your plan allows and you'll see: Your free plan allows 1 publishing profile. Upgrade to create more.

Create a profile

On Channels, open Create Profile (the Dashboard's Get-Started card links here too).
Give it a name (required) and pick the channels it should include (at least one).
Optionally set a colour/icon, and mark it as your default — the default profile loads automatically in the composer.
Save. It's now available in the composer's profile picker and as a link target for your Telegram bot.

💡 Set your most-used profile as default

The composer auto-loads your default profile the moment you open it, so your usual channels are pre-selected. Only one profile can be default; setting a new one clears the old.

Using a profile in the composer

Open the composer and use the profile picker ("Load a saved profile…"). Choosing a profile selects its channels and applies its saved platform settings in one move.
Choose All Channels to ignore profiles and hand-pick channels for a one-off post.
Next to each profile you'll see a channel count. If it shows something like "(2/3)" in amber, one of the profile's channels was disconnected since you saved it — the profile still works with the channels that remain; re-save it to tidy the count.

Editing & keeping profiles tidy

Edit a profile's channels, name, colour, or default flag any time from Channels.
Saving platform settings while a profile is loaded in the composer updates that profile's defaults, so your preferences stick.
When you disconnect a channel, it's automatically removed from every profile that used it — and any profile left with zero channels is deleted (a profile must always have at least one channel).

Expected result

You have at least one profile — ideally set as default — and opening the composer pre-selects its channels for you. If you connected a Telegram bot in Lesson 5, it's pointed at a profile too.

Common mistakes

Trying to save a profile with no channels — at least one is required.
Wondering why a profile shows "(1/2)" — a channel in it was disconnected; re-save to refresh, or reconnect the channel.
On Free, trying to keep separate "personal" and "client" profiles — you get one profile; upgrade for more.
Expecting the composer to remember hand-picked channels — use "All Channels" for one-offs, or save them as a profile to reuse.

📱 Mobile note: the profile picker sits at the top of the composer; tap it to swap channel sets without scrolling through every channel.

Next: Lesson 7 — Your first post.
Everything so far has been setup. Now you'll actually publish — with compatibility checks, the confirm step, and reading your results.