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Your all-in-one social media toolkit
That post isn’t going to publish itself. Oh wait, yes it is. With Hootsuite, you can schedule unlimited posts to go live anytime.
Get in-depth analytics that tell you the best time to publish, help you identify your top performing posts, and show you how your follower growth compares to other businesses.
With Hootsuite free and paid plans, you can publish to all your social networks from one place. Get a quick glance of your schedule with a calendar view of all your social posts across all your channels.
Measure post performance and discover what’s working for you. Use analytics to ensure that every post soars.
Compare Hootsuite features side-by-side
Legend Included with plan Not included with plan | PROFESSIONAL per month, billed annually | Most popular TEAMper month, billed annually | ENTERPRISE Contact for pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
Connect your accounts to publish, schedule, and manage all your content in one place. | 10 | 20 | Unlimited |
The number of people who can collaborate through the Hootsuite dashboard. | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Add more team members to collaborate with. | Add-on (per user pricing) | ||
Connect all your social accounts to Hootsuite. | Add-on | ||
Enable employee collaboration, streamline workflows, and manage permissions. | |||
Publishing and scheduling | |||
Create, schedule and publish an unlimited number of posts. | |||
Draft, schedule and publish posts to maintain a steady stream of quality content. | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Schedule a post to multiple networks or customize content for each network in the post. | |||
See all your scheduled posts in one place, and add or edit posts as needed. | |||
Collaborate with team members on your social content calendar. | |||
Ensure a consistent brand voice by reviewing messages before they’re sent. | |||
Recommendations are available for Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. | |||
Create a custom link in bio page and drive traffic from social to your websites. | |||
Use Bulk Composer to schedule and publish many posts at once. | |||
Shorten and add custom tracking parameters to links. | |||
Use vanity URLs (sold separately) in your posts to brand your links and track metrics. | 1 | Unlimited | |
Setup link settings presets to automatically shorten and track links. | |||
Use the bit.ly link shortening and management platform with Hootsuite. | |||
Select the specific audience who can see your LinkedIn Page post. | |||
Suspend scheduled posts and resume later. | |||
Generate captions for every social media network, repurpose top-performing posts, and automatically create content for holidays. | |||
Automatically tag your content with hashtags based on your caption, image, or video as you draft posts. | |||
Never run out of content ideas with a built-in post ideas generator. | |||
Content curation | |||
Set up search streams to monitor trends and surface content to share on social. | |||
Add app integrations to Hootsuite to help you source, create, and share content. | |||
Add tags to outgoing posts to help you track the success of your published content. | |||
Get AI-powered hashtag suggestions based on the content and image of your post. | |||
Find free stock images for your social posts right in Hootsuite. | |||
Optimize your images with built-in editing and sizing tools without leaving Hootsuite. | |||
Streamline your workflow by storing approved post templates and images for easy reuse. | |||
Access Canva’s design templates or create new visuals directly in Hootsuite. | |||
Campaign Management | |||
Plan, create, manage, and measure ad campaigns in one place. Even boost posts. | |||
Measure and compare campaign performance using predefined tags on all posts. | |||
Messaging and customer service | |||
Manage public, private, organic and dark post conversations in one place. | |||
Add contact notes or add notes to conversation history. | |||
Assign messages from different social streams to different teams in your organization. | |||
Avoid collision by seeing if another teammate owns a response, or is typing. | |||
Stay on top of social activity and approvals with notifications. | |||
Use tags to assign conversations, analyze themes and automate assigning based on tags and rules you created to optimize workflow. | |||
Auto-resolve conversations based on rules you create to save time. | |||
Use saved and suggested replies in Inbox to quickly respond to common customer messages. | |||
Set business hours so your customers know when you are available. | |||
Connect to CRM, set contact groups, VIP and cross-channel conversation history. | |||
Automated responses based on keywords | |||
Auto-assign messages to the right individuals | |||
Measure customer satisfaction by sending CSAT surveys in customer’s languages. | |||
Chatbot API, prioritizations, language detection, real time insights, audit trails, SLA policies and more. | Add-on | ||
Provide 24/7 support for high-volume questions with a generative AI chatbot. | Add-on | ||
Automate case routing, add real-time customer insights, and boost productivity with Hootsuite Social Customer Care. | Add-on | ||
Ads | |||
Make organic posts more impactful by adding ad spend for higher visibility. | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Plan, publish, and optimize your ad campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X (Twitter). | |||
Paid and organic analytics for multiple social media channels. | |||
Analytics | |||
Get detailed metrics across your networks using Hootsuite Analytics. | |||
Organize, visualize, and share performance data in ways that best serve your team. | |||
Find out how your posts are performing and resonating with your audience. | |||
Get a detailed breakdown of your best times to publish | |||
View a weekly snapshot of your social media performance across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. | |||
Export your analytics reports in PDF or PPT. | |||
Export your analytics reports in CSV or XLSX. | |||
A side-by-side comparison of the most important metrics for all your social networks. | |||
Monitor brand awareness, engagement and conversion with pre-built report templates. | |||
Discover how you compare with others in your industry. | |||
Compare your social media performance against your competitors. | 2 competitors | 2 competitors | 20 competitors |
Automatically export a report & email it out on a recurring schedule. | |||
Track team metrics to monitor customer response and resolution times. | |||
Customize logo on reports and enhance distribution. | |||
Understand the full results on your social channels with Hootsuite Advanced Analytics. | Add-on | ||
Drive deeper engagement by monitoring what people are saying about your brand. | Add-on | ||
Access & Security | |||
Control which features and social accounts your team members have access to. | |||
Integrate Proofpoint (formerly Nexgate) software for automated social security. | Add-on | ||
Set custom user permissions for access to social networks | |||
Get access to all your Hootsuite products with one username and password. | |||
Training & success | |||
Access to resources to use Hootsuite to achieve your business objectives on social | |||
The ultimate service for organizations to get more from social--faster. | Add-on | ||
Consulting, customized training, and specialized onboarding. | Add-on | ||
Integrate your organization | |||
Connect your existing tools and find new ones to make your social media life easier. | |||
Connect your existing tools and find new ones to make your social media life easier. | Paid | Paid | |
Do more on social | |||
Empower employees to share your posts across their own social networks. | Add-on | ||
Empower your teams with Hootsuite’s powerful social selling products. | Add-on | ||
Empower your teams with Hootsuite’s social and messaging engagement platform. | Add-on | ||
Monitor brand reviews alongside social mentions in Hootsuite. | Add-on | ||
This app saves so much time for scheduling and posting information to social media, it enables small consulting operations like mine to greatly expand their outreach efforts to a much wider potential audience.
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