Connect social media accounts
Connect Instagram, Facebook Pages, LinkedIn, Threads, Telegram and a YouTube channel so you can publish from Zanfia, see your YouTube channel's numbers and videos, check or renew a connection, and disconnect an account you no longer use.
Before you can publish a post from Zanfia, the social account has to be connected. When you finish, your accounts will show Connected, appear as targets in the composer, and you will know how to renew or remove a connection.
Plan
Social media publishing and the Marketing → Social media page, with its Channels tab, are available on Growth and above. Connecting an account under Integrations → Social media works on every plan.
Which networks you can connect
| Network | What Zanfia publishes | What you need |
|---|---|---|
| Feed posts, carousels, Stories and Reels | An Instagram Creator or Business account | |
| Facebook Pages | Posts on the Pages you manage | A Facebook account that manages at least one Page |
| Posts on your profile | A LinkedIn account | |
| Threads | Posts (text and images) on your profile | A Threads account |
| Telegram | Posts (text and images) on your channel | A Telegram channel where you can add administrators |
| YouTube | Videos and Shorts on your channel | A YouTube channel |
YouTube also shows your channel's numbers and videos in Zanfia. The steps are below, under Connect a YouTube channel.
Coming soon
The TikTok card shows Coming soon and cannot be connected yet. X and Pinterest are listed as roadmap tiles. An account connected earlier keeps working and keeps its Manage button.
Connect an account
Open the accounts list
Go to Marketing → Social media (/marketing/social) and click Accounts next to the page
title. With nothing connected the page opens on this list by itself. The same cards are also
available under Integrations → Social media (/integrations/social-media). The heading
Connected accounts shows how many accounts are connected.
Click Connect on a network
Each card is marked Not connected and has a Connect button. A window opens with a short explanation, for example Publish to LinkedIn from Zanfia, and one button: Connect Instagram, Connect Facebook, Connect LinkedIn or Connect Threads.
Log in and grant access
The network's own login page opens. Log in and approve the requested permissions; Facebook also asks which Pages Zanfia may use. You come back to Zanfia by yourself and see Account connected successfully.
Check the card
The card now shows ● Connected with your account name (for Facebook: the names of the connected Pages) and a Manage button. The number on the Accounts tab goes up, and the account appears as a chip under Publish to in the composer.
Connect a Telegram channel
Telegram needs no login. Click Connect on the Telegram card and follow the two steps in the window: in Telegram, open your channel, go to Administrators and add the Zanfia bot as an administrator (posting permission is enough); then type your channel name (for example @mychannel) and click Connect channel. You see Telegram channel connected.
Connect a YouTube channel
A connected YouTube channel takes the videos you publish from Zanfia, and Zanfia shows its numbers and videos. Google asks for permission to view your YouTube account and to upload videos to it.
Click Connect on the YouTube card
On Accounts or under Integrations → Social media, click Connect on the YouTube card. The window is titled Publish to YouTube and track your results from Zanfia and has one button, Connect YouTube.
Pick the channel you publish on
Google may list several identities: your own account and every brand channel, often with the same name. Pick the channel you actually publish on and approve the access. Back in Zanfia you see YouTube connected successfully.
Check the channel
Manage on the card shows the channel with its @handle, the Connected at date and three numbers: Subscribers, Views and Videos. A channel with no videos and no views shows a warning: click Reconnect YouTube and pick another entry. Open channel view takes you to the full view.
Marketing → Social media → Channels shows the full view: the channel's numbers and the list of your videos, with the filters All, Shorts, Public, Unlisted and Private and Load more at the bottom. Click a video to play it in Zanfia or Open on YouTube. Your subscriber count also joins the weekly measurements on the Statistics tab.
The connected channel appears as a tile under Publish to in the composer; to publish or schedule a video, see Schedule posts and track results. If the channel was connected earlier, read-only, Manage on the YouTube card shows "Allow Zanfia to upload videos to your channel to publish Shorts straight from the composer." and an Enable uploads button. Click it and approve the access at Google; only then does the channel appear under Publish to. Publishing to YouTube, like the other networks, is on Growth and above.
Disconnect in Manage asks "Disconnect this YouTube channel? Zanfia will no longer be able to read its stats." It ends Zanfia's access at Google and deletes the YouTube data Zanfia stored, at once. If you remove Zanfia's access in your Google account instead, Zanfia deletes the data the next time it tries to read the channel.
Manage or renew a connection
Manage on a connected card opens its details: the account, when it was connected and, for Instagram, how long the access is valid. Zanfia renews the access automatically before it expires. If the network refuses the renewal (for example after a password change or when access was revoked), the window shows Instagram needs to be reconnected and publishing is paused until you click Reconnect Instagram. For Facebook, Reconnect Facebook also refreshes the list when you created a new Page or one is missing.
Disconnect an account
Open Manage
Click Manage on the connected card, on Accounts or under Integrations → Social media.
Click Disconnect and confirm
Click the red Disconnect button and confirm the question, for example "Disconnect LinkedIn? Zanfia will no longer be able to publish to your profile." For Instagram the confirmation adds that Zanfia will no longer receive the account's messages.
Check the result
A message such as LinkedIn disconnected. appears, the window switches back to the connect screen and the card shows Connect again. The account disappears from the composer's targets.
Good to know
Disconnecting does not delete anything you already published; those posts stay live on the network. A scheduled post whose account was disconnected fails with "This account is no longer connected. Reconnect it in the Accounts tab and publish again." The WhatsApp card under Integrations → Social media is a messaging channel, not a publishing target: it opens the Inbox, described in WhatsApp inbox.
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