Connections
Connect your Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok accounts once, choose what Lahuta may use them for, and reconnect one when it stops working.
Connections is where your organization's outside accounts live. Connect an account once and every part of Lahuta that needs it uses the same connection. Northside Pottery connects its Instagram account here, and Social posts can schedule to it from then on.
Open it from Settings → Connections.
Connect an account
Under Social accounts, select Connect on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or TikTok.
Sign in to that platform and allow Lahuta to use the account.
If you signed in with more than one account to choose from, like several Facebook Pages you manage, Lahuta asks you to Choose an account. Pick the one your organization uses.
Your organization keeps one account on each platform. Connecting a different one replaces the account you had there, and posts scheduled to the old one are cancelled. Connecting the same account again keeps its scheduled posts.
Select a platform's row to open its details: the account connected there, what Lahuta can do with it, and Reconnect and Disconnect. If you don't have permission to manage social posts, the details say Ask an admin to connect it.
What each account is for
| Platform | What Lahuta can do |
|---|---|
| Post to Instagram, and Read post insights: reach, views, saves and shares. | |
| Post to the Page: text, photos and videos. | |
| Post to the profile: text, photos and videos. | |
| TikTok | Post to TikTok: videos and photo posts. |
In an Instagram account's details, each of these has a switch under What Lahuta can do. Turn one off and Lahuta stops using the account for it until you turn it back on. If a switch shows Turn on instead, Instagram hasn't given Lahuta that permission yet. Select Turn on and sign in again to allow it.
Statuses
Each row shows where its account stands, and the button on the right fixes what needs fixing:
- Connected. It works.
- Choose which account to use. You signed in but didn't pick an account. Select Choose account to finish.
- Stopped working. The platform stopped accepting Lahuta's access. Select Reconnect and sign in again. A post due before you do fails on that account. Once you've reconnected, select Retry on the post.
- Stops working and a date. Some platforms let access run out after a while, and Lahuta says so a week before. Reconnect keeps it going.
Lahuta tells the people who can manage the account when it stops working, and a week before its access runs out. Broken social connections and Expiring social connections in Notifications choose whether these also arrive by email.
Disconnect an account
Open the account's details, select Disconnect and confirm. Lahuta stops using the account, and posts scheduled to it are cancelled. What it already published stays on the platform.
Email, texting and payments
Your mailboxes, texting numbers and Stripe account each have a page of their own. Email, texting and payments lists them:
- Email: the mailboxes you send from and read in the inbox, and your sending domain. See Email.
- Texting: your numbers for texting, and who asked to stop. See Text messaging.
- Stripe: the account your sales are paid into. See Get paid.