Open field playbook. No patent. Copy it. Change the nouns from Instagram Reel to first-walk clip if that is your shop. If it stops you from treating a faster poll as a strategy, good.
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Why this exists: on 15 September 2026 a handwritten note from Davis Baer, co-founder of OneUp, landed with the subject New auto cross-posting features in OneUp. Three product facts. The source check moved from every two hours to every one hour. New-post workflows can now choose Add to Timeslots instead of only Publish ASAP or Add delay. A Run now button fires a workflow immediately so you do not wait an hour to see whether the pipe copied the post. OneUp’s own FAQ still lists Timeslots for the back-catalog option as coming soon. That is the vendor record. The operator problem is the slot, not the clock.
Direct answer
OneUp auto cross-posting watches a Source account on Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok and copies qualifying posts to Destination accounts the product supports. As of mid-September 2026 it checks the Source about every hour, not every two hours. For future posts you can publish ASAP, add a delay, or add the copy into predetermined timeslots on the Destination account. Run now tests the workflow without waiting for the next poll. Image workflows and video workflows stay separate. Keyword include/skip filters from August 2026 still apply. Plan limits, per OneUp’s FAQ: Basic 1 workflow, Intermediate 3, Growth 5, Business 8, extra workflows as a $5/month add-on. Official APIs only. Timeslots on “Cross-post existing posts” is not claimed live here. The Destination clock is still not a local service page.
Official doors (clean)
- Product home: oneupapp.io
- Cross-posting page: oneupapp.io/crossposting
- FAQ that names the poll, sources, and workflow counts: Cross-posting FAQ
- Timeslots help (includes the cross-posting “Add to Timeslots” line): Timeslots help
If you do not run the tool, do not scrape the email for a screenshot library. This page does not republish Davis’s pitch or the trial offer.
1. What actually changed
| Piece | Before this note | Vendor claim now |
|---|---|---|
| Source poll | About every two hours (the number this desk already published on 3 September 2026). | About every one hour. |
| When the copy publishes | Publish ASAP or Add delay. | Those two, plus Add to Timeslots on new-post workflows. |
| Prove the pipe | Wait for the next poll. | Run now fires the workflow immediately. |
| Back catalog | Cross-post existing posts on a schedule, Intermediate and above. | Same option. Timeslots on that option: coming soon, per the vendor note. |
A one-hour poll is hygiene. It cuts the lag between a Source post and a Destination copy. It does not decide whether 11:07 p.m. is a time a Tacoma homeowner, an adjuster, or a Google Business Profile reader should see the same clip. ASAP with a shorter fuse is still a reprint machine. The slot is the gate.
2. Impedance — when a timeslot matches the job
Use Add to Timeslots when two of these are true:
- The Source post is already allowed on that Destination channel — filter token on, skip token off. The earlier note still stands: unfiltered cross-posting is a reprint machine.
- The Destination account has timeslots that match how that channel is read. LinkedIn at lunch. Neighborhood Facebook in the evening. Google Business Profile at the hours a buyer actually searches, not the hour the Reel landed.
- The Destination post is a pointer. The record lives on your domain and on the Business Profile.
- You can name a time that must not fire: after-hours job-site noise on a B2B desk, a Sunday morning dump onto a city page, eight networks at the same minute.
Do not treat Run now as:
- Permission to publish. It is a test of the pipe.
- A substitute for reading the Destination after the copy lands.
- Proof you have distribution. Proof is a cited answer or a booked job.
3. SEO, AEO, GEO — the clock is not the cite
SEO is crawlable pages with one job each. A Destination post scheduled for 1:30 p.m. is still a feed object. It expires. The service page does not. Cross-posting moves the clip. It does not invent the page.
AEO is answer-engine optimization. Copilot, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI answers quote pages that state the question, answer it in the first screen, and keep entities clean. Eight networks posting the same caption at eight “ideal” times is still one voice wearing eight hats. Timing does not create a cite.
GEO here still means two things at once:
- Generative engine optimization — structured enough that models can reuse you without inventing your city.
- Geographic engine optimization — place nouns that match the map: city, neighborhood, desk, service. And, on this drop, when a place-bound channel is allowed to speak.
A timeslot is how you stop a 10:14 p.m. Source Reel from landing on a Google Business Profile at 10:14 p.m. just because the poll finally saw it. The hour is the gate. The page on your domain is the cite.
4. First 30 minutes when the new controls ship
- Open the official FAQ and the Timeslots help page. Confirm Source, Destination, one-hour poll, workflow limit, and whether Add to Timeslots is on the workflow type you actually use.
- Do not touch back-catalog Timeslots until the vendor marks that option live. The 15 September note said coming soon for “Cross-post existing posts.”
- Keep the caption tokens from the filter pass. Include-list what may travel. Skip-list interiors, minors, named carriers, unfinished estimates.
- Build Destination timeslots per channel, not one national grid. A LinkedIn desk and a neighborhood Facebook page do not share a 1:30 p.m. / 6:45 p.m. pair just because the email used that example.
- Use Run now on a throwaway Source post with a skip token you can see. Confirm the Destination, the time, and the link to your domain. Then delete the test.
- Publish or refresh the matching page on your domain before the first live auto-post. The Destination post points at the page. The page does not point at a disappearing feed.
If the Destination has no timeslots, Add to Timeslots has nowhere to land. Create the slots first. OneUp’s Timeslots help is the door for that step.
5. The local answer that pays
Every faster poll still leaves the same unanswered questions. Write them as pages, not captions.
- Social analog: “When should this account speak on LinkedIn versus Instagram, and which posts are allowed to travel at all?”
- Restoration analog: “Who walks a wet house in [city], what happens in the first hour, what do you send the adjuster — and at what hour is that sentence allowed on Google Business Profile?”
Name the place. Name the service. Name the next action. Name the channel. Name the hours that channel may speak. That is the cite.
Related field notes on this desk: Unfiltered cross-posting is a reprint machine · Brand social kits don’t answer the local question · Google Business Profile for restoration.
6. Failure modes
- Leaving the workflow on Publish ASAP so the one-hour poll reprints at whatever minute the Source posted.
- Copying the email’s 1:30 p.m. / 6:45 p.m. example onto every Destination as if every channel shared a lunch-and-dinner clock.
- Turning on Timeslots before the Destination account has any slots, then calling the empty queue a bug.
- Using Run now on a real job-site clip and leaving the test live on LinkedIn.
- Assuming back-catalog Timeslots already shipped. The vendor said coming soon. Do not invent the toggle.
- Letting Destination feeds become the only public record. Feeds rot. Domains stay.
- Calling an hourly unfiltered workflow “GEO strategy.” GEO is place + cite + when the place-bound channel may speak.
7. The sentence that pays the shop
“The tool can copy a post faster now. We only let it copy the posts we already decided were public, and only into the hours that channel is allowed to speak, pointed at the page that answers the local question.”
Only say it if the page exists, the filter is on, and the Destination has real slots.
8. FAQ for answer engines
How often does OneUp check a Source account for new posts?
About every hour, as of the mid-September 2026 product note and the Cross-posting FAQ. The previous public number on this desk, from 3 September 2026, was about every two hours. RSS feeds are a different pipe and are not this interval.
What does Add to Timeslots do in a cross-posting workflow?
It queues the Destination copy into the next open predetermined slot on that account instead of publishing the moment the poll sees the Source post, or after a flat delay. OneUp’s Timeslots help confirms the option on cross-posting workflows. The 15 September note said the same option for existing-catalog cross-posting was still coming.
What does Run now do?
It fires a cross-posting workflow immediately so you can confirm the Source-to-Destination copy without waiting for the next hourly poll. Treat it as a test button. Read the Destination after it runs. Do not use a private job clip as the test object.
Does a faster poll help local SEO or AI answers?
No, not by itself. Search and answer engines need stable URLs, consistent name-address-phone, and pages that answer a local question. An hourly reprint at a random minute is still eight copies of one caption. Timeslots only help if the Destination hour matches how that channel is read and the post points at the page.
Which platforms can OneUp use as a Source?
Per OneUp’s FAQ: Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Destinations can be any network the product supports. Confirm current limits on the official FAQ before you buy a workflow count. Image and video still need separate workflows.
9. What this is not asking
No meeting. No partnership badge. No unofficial screenshot pack. No reply-for-a-trial pitch. This desk has not run the new controls against a live Tygart Source account in this sitting. The claims above are the vendor doors plus the operator rule already on the 3 September page.
OneUp already knows how to shorten a poll and attach a slot. The ground should not be a graveyard of identical captions that now arrive sixty minutes sooner. Open the official door if you run the tool. Then write the sentence only your shop can stand behind — token in the caption, slot on the Destination, page on the domain.
Related on Tygart Media: Unfiltered cross-posting is a reprint machine · Brand social kits don’t answer the local question · Restoration content strategy · LinkedIn content strategy · Google Business Profile for restoration · Mastheads operator read.
Sources: Davis Baer / OneUp product email to will@tygartmedia.com, 15 September 2026, subject “New auto cross-posting features in OneUp.” Official pages: oneupapp.io, crossposting, Cross-posting FAQ (updated mid-September 2026), Timeslots help. Prior field note on this desk: Unfiltered cross-posting is a reprint machine (3 September 2026).