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How to Schedule Pins on Pinterest

By PostMediaAI7 min read

Yes, you can schedule Pins on Pinterest. With a Pinterest business account you can pick a future publish date when you create a Pin, up to 30 days ahead. There's a catch most guides skip: Pinterest only lets you have 10 Pins scheduled at a time. Here's how native scheduling works, what you can change afterward, and how to keep a steady flow of Pins without bumping into that limit.

What you need before you schedule

Pinterest's help article says scheduling is available for business accounts. If you're on a personal account, you can convert it or add a linked business account in your settings, then come back to schedule.

How to schedule a Pin on desktop

Pinterest's Business help lists these steps:

  1. Log in to your Pinterest business account.
  2. Click Create at the top left, then Create Pin. (On some layouts, open the menu icon first and choose Create Pin under Create.)
  3. Upload an image or video. You can select up to 10 images at once, and each image becomes its own Pin.
  4. Fill in the details: title, description, link and board.
  5. Select "Publish at a later date" and choose the day and time.
  6. Finish creating your Pin.

Scheduled Pins show up on your profile above your published Pins. Pinterest notes it can take a few minutes for them to appear.

How to schedule a Pin in the Pinterest app

  1. Open the Pinterest app on your business account and tap the plus icon.
  2. Choose Pin, then select one or more images or videos. Pinterest says multiple selections in the app are stitched into a single video Pin.
  3. Tap Next, edit if you want, and fill in the details.
  4. Next to Schedule date, tap the arrow, choose the date and time, and tap Done.
  5. Tap Schedule, check the date and time, and tap Schedule to confirm.

Pinterest's scheduling limits

From Pinterest's help article:

  • Up to 30 days in advance.
  • One Pin at a time when scheduling.
  • Up to 10 Pins scheduled for the future at any moment.
  • After scheduling, you can change the publish date, title, board, description and link.
  • You can't change the image or video. To swap the creative, delete the scheduled Pin and create a new one.

Pinterest's Pin specs page lists a 100-character limit for titles, so write the most important words first.

The 10-Pin cap is the one that shapes your workflow. If you plan to publish a Pin every day, the native scheduler covers about a week and a half before you need to come back and add more.

How to delete a scheduled Pin

Go to your profile, where scheduled Pins sit above your published ones. Click or tap the ellipsis on the Pin and select Delete.

How to plan a steady flow of Pins

Pinterest works differently from feeds like Instagram or X. Many people use it like a search engine, looking for ideas and plans rather than scrolling for news. That makes a steady, regular schedule more useful than bursts.

1. Start from content you already have

Every blog post, product page, recipe or guide on your site can become several Pins: different images, different angles, different titles. If you write articles, pair each one with a few Pins. See Social media content strategy: audience, pillars, and a plan you can keep for how Pinterest fits next to your other channels.

2. Make vertical images

Pins are tall. Create a few variations per article: a clean photo with a short headline, a step-by-step graphic, a before-and-after. PostMediaAI can generate images and its Advanced Picture Editor handles crops and text overlays, so you can prepare a set of Pins from one source image.

3. Write titles and descriptions people would search for

Use plain words your audience types into Pinterest, like "small balcony garden ideas" rather than a clever pun. Keep titles under Pinterest's 100-character limit, with the key phrase near the start. Add a description that explains what someone gets when they click.

For example, one article called "How to start a herb garden on a balcony" could become five Pins: a photo of the finished garden titled "Small balcony herb garden ideas", a step graphic titled "How to plant herbs in containers", a list graphic of easy herbs for beginners, a before-and-after of a bare balcony, and a short video of the planting. Each one points to the same article, each targets a slightly different search, and you can space them over two or three weeks.

4. Choose the right board

Boards help Pinterest understand what a Pin is about. Put each Pin on the most specific relevant board rather than one catch-all board.

5. Schedule a steady rhythm

Space Pins across days rather than publishing ten at once. With the native scheduler, top up your queue every week. With a scheduler, load a month and adjust as you go. For general timing principles, see Social media scheduling guide: workflows, timing, and fewer mistakes.

A quick checklist before you schedule a Pin

Because Pinterest won't let you change the image after scheduling, check the creative first.

  • Image: is it vertical, sharp and readable on a phone screen?
  • Text on the image: is the headline short enough to read at a glance?
  • Title: does it start with the words someone would search for, and stay under 100 characters?
  • Description: does it say what the reader gets and who it's for?
  • Link: does it go to the exact page the Pin promises, not your homepage?
  • Board: is it the most specific board that fits?
  • Date: is it within 30 days, and does it fit your rhythm for the week?
  • Queue: do you have room under the 10-Pin limit, or do you need to wait for some to publish?

Spending a minute on this list saves deleting and recreating Pins later, which is the only fix Pinterest offers for a wrong image.

Native scheduling or a scheduler?

Pinterest itself has written about third-party tools for automating Pin scheduling, so using one is an accepted approach. Stick with native scheduling if you post a few Pins a week. Consider a scheduler if:

  • You want more than 10 Pins planned ahead.
  • Pinterest is one of several channels for the same content.
  • You want one calendar that shows Pins next to Instagram, Facebook and blog promotion.

PostMediaAI lists Pinterest among its 30+ channels, alongside Instagram, Facebook Pages, TikTok and YouTube. Plans differ only in how many accounts you can connect (5, 10, 30 or 100), and posting is unlimited on all of them; details are on the pricing page.

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FAQ

Can you schedule Pins on Pinterest?

Yes, with a business account. Choose "Publish at a later date" when creating a Pin, up to 30 days ahead.

How many Pins can you schedule on Pinterest?

Pinterest says you can have up to 10 Pins scheduled for the future at once, and you schedule them one at a time.

Can I edit a scheduled Pin?

Partly. Pinterest lets you change the publish date, title, board, description and link, but not the image or video.

Where do scheduled Pins show up?

On your profile, above your published Pins. Pinterest notes they can take a few minutes to appear.

Do I need a business account to schedule Pins?

Yes. Pinterest's scheduling help article is for business accounts, and the steps start by logging in to one.

Related guides: How to Schedule Threads Posts, How to Schedule Posts on a Facebook Page and How to Schedule Bluesky Posts.

Sources

Platform rules change often. These are the official pages behind the limits and steps in this guide, checked when it was written:

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