Migration

Move your calendar in an afternoon.

Whether you're on Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social, Later, Sendible, or SocialPilot — bring your scheduled posts, your brand voice, and your team in three steps.

The three-step move

Export from your current tool. Every mainstream scheduler supports a CSV or JSON export of scheduled posts. We've tested imports from the tools listed below.
Import into ManageSM. From Content → Import, drop the CSV. We map columns automatically and show you the preview before anything is scheduled.
Reconnect your social accounts via OAuth. Your old tool's tokens stay put; the new connection is separate and lives inside ManageSM only.

Time estimate for one brand: 30–90 minutes end-to-end, depending on how many posts are in flight.

We'll do the first brand with you on a call. Book a session via contact — we walk through the export, the CSV cleanup, the import, and the account reconnect together. No sales pitch, just get-it-done help.

By tool

Hootsuite

Publisher → Content → Export → CSV. Choose “Scheduled” date range.
The export has Scheduled Send Time, Social Profile, Message, and Attachment URL — we map all four.
Approval history from Hootsuite doesn't export. Bring approvers over as a new team invite.

Buffer

Buffer has no built-in CSV export. Use the Buffer API (or copy the queue manually for small volumes).
Alternative: connect Buffer's Zapier trigger and pipe scheduled posts to a Google Sheet, then export that as CSV.
We're planning a Buffer importer that hits the API directly — contact us if you need it now.

Sprout Social

Publishing → Publishing Calendar → Export → CSV. Choose the whole date range you want to migrate.
Sprout's Task Assignee and Message Approval Status columns map to our reviewer and approval-state fields.
Sprout's Smart Inbox conversations don't export — those don't come over, though the connected account will re-fetch recent activity once wired up.

Later

Later's exports live in Analytics → Export. It gives you a per-post CSV including caption, media URL, and scheduled time.
Media URLs work directly — we fetch and store them in your media library on import.

Sendible

Reports → Content Report → Export → CSV.
Sendible's post statuses map cleanly to our draft/queued/published states.

SocialPilot

Publish → Queue → Export CSV.
Category assignments carry over as ManageSM categories with the same names.

What we import

Scheduled posts — text, scheduled time, target network, target account.
Media — images and videos are fetched from the source URLs and stored in your ManageSM media library.
Categories / labels — mapped 1:1 to ManageSM categories.
Team assignees — mapped by email address to invited ManageSM users.

What we don't import

Historical analytics from the old tool — you keep those there. ManageSM analytics start from the moment you publish through us.
Direct-message inboxes — those live with the network, not the tool.
Custom approval workflows — you'll rebuild these in ManageSM Settings (usually 10 minutes).

Do we lose scheduled posts during the transition?

No. The recommended sequence:

Import your scheduled posts into ManageSM as drafts (default).
Connect the same social accounts in ManageSM (both tools can hold OAuth tokens simultaneously — the network doesn't care).
On the cutover date: pause auto-publish in the old tool, mark the corresponding ManageSM posts as scheduled.
Verify the first day, then disconnect the old tool at your leisure.

Cutover checklist

Export scheduled posts from your old tool.
Import as drafts in ManageSM.
Connect social accounts.
Invite team members.
Recreate any approval rules in Settings.
Recreate your posting-time slots.
Mark imported drafts as scheduled once times look right.
Pause the old tool.
Verify the first day of publishing.
Disconnect the old tool.

Get help

Book a free migration session — we'll do the first brand with you and hand you the playbook for the rest. Contact us.