Buffer onboarding
~5 min on your phone or laptop. Read this once, do the steps, you're set.
What Buffer is for
It's the scheduling + approval surface. I queue draft reels there → you review + approve → it posts to your IG and Facebook on the schedule. You never give me your IG/FB password; Buffer handles the connection.
Step 1 — Accept the invite
Check your email at soldbuysteiger@gmail.com
You'll see an invitation from Buffer to join the OBB team. Click the link, set your own password (something only you know), and you're in.
Step 2 — Connect your Instagram + Facebook
From the Buffer dashboard:
- Click Channels on the left sidebar (looks like a chain link icon).
- Click + New Channel at the top.
- Pick Instagram. Buffer will redirect you to Instagram to log in + approve permissions. You log in on Instagram's actual page — Buffer never sees your password. Approve Publish + Read insights permissions.
- Back in Buffer, click + New Channel again. Pick Facebook. Same flow — Facebook page-permission, approve.
That's the OAuth handshake. Buffer can now post to your accounts on schedule; your accounts are still 100% yours.
Step 3 — Understand the approval queue
How approvals work day-to-day:
When I have a reel ready, I queue it in Buffer with a draft caption + scheduled post time. You'll see it in your
Queue tab (or
Approvals if Buffer routes it there). For each draft:
- Approve → it publishes on schedule, no further action from you.
- Edit caption / Reschedule → tweak then approve.
- Reject / Delete → it doesn't publish. Drop a note in your workbench channel telling me why; I'll iterate.
You'll get email notifications when new drafts land in your queue. You can turn those off and just check the queue on your own cadence — your call.
What you control vs what I control
- Your accounts stay yours. Login credentials, follower lists, DMs, comments — never leave your control.
- Every post is your approval-gated. I cannot publish anything to your accounts without your explicit click.
- You can revoke Buffer's access anytime. Instagram + Facebook both let you yank app permissions in 2 clicks if anything ever feels off.
- I queue + edit drafts. The production lift is mine; the approval + relationship side is yours.
If anything breaks
Drop a note in #amy-workbench. Don't reply to Buffer's notification emails — those go nowhere useful. Workbench is the fast lane.
Last updated 2026-05-15. Iterate this doc as we learn what's actually clunky vs what works.