Posting time slots

What they are

Per-channel hours that feed suggested schedule times — a convenience, not a publish lock.

Each channel has its own time slots — the hours you usually post on that network. LinkedIn might be 9:00, Instagram 18:00, and so on.

Slots are a convenience, not a lock. You can still pick any date and time in the post editor.

Open the editor

On My Dashboard or the calendar, open a channel’s menu and click Edit time slots. The modal title is Time table slots.

Add, remove, and save

Choose an hour and minutes, click Add, and repeat until Scheduled times lists every slot you want. Click Save changes when you are done.

RedPanda requires at least one slot per channel. Removing the last one is blocked. When you remove a slot from the list, a confirm dialog appears first.

What changes when you save

Saved slots feed the next suggested schedule time when you compose a new post. The editor asks for a workspace-wide suggestion before you pick channels — it merges slots from every channel and returns the earliest free time.

Automations and the public API use the same logic. See Find slot: call GET /public/posts/find-slot for a workspace-wide suggestion, or add a channel UUID in the path when you already know the target channel and want only that channel’s slots.

New channels

When you connect a channel, RedPanda starts with three default times — roughly morning, afternoon, and evening in your workspace timezone. Adjust them per channel anytime.

Timezone

Slot labels follow Timezone under Settings — the workspace posting timezone described in Tour the app. That setting can differ from your laptop clock. Teammates who use a different Settings timezone may see different labels for the same stored slots.

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