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Schedule Pinterest Pins and Boards

Updated October 27, 2026 · Multi Post Social guide

What you can schedule on Pinterest

Image pins, video pins and carousel pins with up to five images all publish directly. Every pin takes a title up to 100 characters, a description up to 500, a board, an optional destination link and alt text. Idea pins, collages and shopping pins with product tags are created in the Pinterest app. Multi Post Social shows saves, outbound clicks and impressions for your pins in analytics.

Account requirements

Pinterest only lets tools publish to Business accounts. A personal account converts to Business in the Pinterest settings in a minute, keeps its boards and followers, and costs nothing. You must own the account or be added to it through Pinterest’s business access. Claiming your website in Pinterest is not required to schedule, but it attaches your profile to pins that link to your site and unlocks site analytics.

How to connect Pinterest

1. Open Channels, press Connect channel and choose Pinterest.
2. Sign in on Pinterest’s screen with the Business account.
3. Accept the permissions to create pins, read boards and read analytics.
4. Set the time zone and posting schedule. Pins live for months, so one or two slots a day is plenty.

Limits and image sizes

Boards and destination links

Each pin is saved to one board, and the board name is part of how Pinterest understands the pin. The composer lists your boards and lets you create a new one. The destination link is where a click lands; add UTM tags with the UTM builder so the visits show up by board in your web analytics. Pinning the same image to several boards is allowed, but space the pins days apart; Pinterest limits repeated pins of one image to one link.

Best practices when you schedule Pinterest pins

• Design every image at 2:3; wider images get cropped in the feed.
• Write the title as a search phrase; keywords in the title beat hashtags here.
• Use the description for context and a plain call to action.
• Put text on the image only in the upper two-thirds, where it stays visible.
• Pin steadily over weeks rather than in bursts; Pinterest surfaces pins for months.
• Repurpose a carousel from Instagram into a tall pin with the AI assistant rewriting the title.

Connection errors and fixes

Mobile tips

Vertical photos from a phone are already close to 2:3; crop in the composer preview before queuing. The Multi Post Social app shows the pin as it will appear in the feed so text placement is easy to check.