Channels

A channel is a single publishing destination inside your organization — one LinkedIn profile, one company page, one X account, one Instagram professional account, or one Facebook page. You connect channels once by authorizing Inklate with each network, then every post, schedule, and analytics figure flows through them. LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook are live today; Threads and Mastodon are on the way.

The networks you can connect

Inklate groups networks into three honest tiers, shown as cards under Settings → Social Profiles → Connect a profile:

LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook are the four live networks — click Connect and you go straight to that network’s consent screen. Threads and Mastodon appear with a “Coming soon” badge and a disabled button; they are documented so you know what is planned, but you cannot connect them yet. A network can also show as “not set up” on a given workspace when an administrator has not yet added its API credentials on the server.

How connecting works

Connecting a channel is an OAuth authorization on the network’s own site — you never type a social password into Inklate. The flow is always the same three steps:

1. Authorize Inklate. Click Connect and your browser leaves for the network’s consent screen (linkedin.com, x.com, or facebook.com). You approve the requested permissions there and come right back.
2. Pick your destinations. After authorizing, Inklate shows every destination that authorization surfaced. You check which ones become channels.
3. Publish and measure. Selected channels appear in the composer, the calendar, and analytics, ready for you and your agents.

One authorization can create several channels

A single OAuth grant often surfaces more than one destination, and each one you pick becomes its own independent channel. LinkedIn is the clearest example: authorizing once yields your member profile plus every company page you administer, and you choose which to add. Facebook surfaces every page you manage from one authorization; Instagram surfaces each professional account linked to those pages. X authorizes the single account you signed in as.

Channels are managed independently after that — you can disconnect one page without touching the profile you connected in the same grant. Disconnecting is a soft delete: publishing stops and any scheduled posts return to drafts, but published history is kept and re-picking the destination later revives it.

Health and reconnecting

Every connected channel shows a health state. A healthy channel publishes silently; one whose token has expired or been revoked wears a needs reconnect badge and stops publishing until you re-authorize, and a channel with several recent failures wears a softer recent failures warning. See Channel health and reconnecting for what each state means and how to fix it.