Buffer publishing comprehensive feature list

Hannah Voice

November 18, 2019 15:23

Our publishing feature has a number of plans available. The Free and Pro Plans are ideal for individual users who are looking to schedule content to their personal social channels. The Premium and Business Plans are better suited to teams who are looking to schedule content for their brand's social channels, as well as having access to extra features like Drafts, Approvals, and Instagram Shop Grid.

For a summary of our plans and pricing, please check out this article. Or, if you'd like to see a comprehensive feature list across all of our plans, check out the table below.

Feature	Free plan	Pro plan	Premium plan (1)	Premium plan (2)	Business plan
Social channel integrations	3	8	8	8	25+
Facebook pages & groups	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Instagram business accounts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Twitter profiles	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
LinkedIn pages & profiles	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Pinterest profiles		✓	✓	✓	✓
Social channel settings
Custom posting schedules	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Buff.ly link shortening	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Bit.ly and j.mp link shortening		✓	✓	✓	✓
Custom link shortener if registered with Bit.ly		✓	✓	✓	✓
Planning and scheduling
Campaigns		✓	✓	✓	✓
Tailored posts for each social network	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Image uploads	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Video uploads	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ability to pause queue	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Calendar view of the queue		✓	✓	✓	✓
Ability to shuffle the queue		✓	✓	✓	✓
Custom video thumbnails for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Facebook page mentions	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Twitter @ mentions	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Twitter hashtag suggestions	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ability to share posts again	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
“Add to Queue” scheduling option	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
“Share Next“ scheduling option		✓	✓	✓	✓
“Share Now“ scheduling option	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
“Schedule Post“ scheduling option	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Instagram specific features
Reminders	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Direct scheduling	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Custom video thumbnails for Instagram		✓	✓	✓	✓
Tagging users in images		✓	✓	✓	✓
Adding first comments		✓	✓	✓	✓
Hashtag Manager			✓	✓	✓
Stories Scheduling			✓	✓	✓
Shop Grid			✓	✓	✓
Engage with Instagram comments		✓	✓	✓	✓
Team features
Inviting additional users with varying permissions levels				✓	✓
Creating draft posts			✓	✓	✓
Approval workflow					✓
Analytics
Posts Report	✓ (limited)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Google Analytics integration		✓	✓	✓	✓
Customizing UTM parameters			✓	✓	✓
Account settings
Two factor authentication	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Email reminders and notifications	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Integrations and apps
iOS app	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Android app	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Browser extension	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Access to 20+ third party integrations	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

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