Content Approval feature in FS Poster

When several people write your social posts, someone usually checks them before they go out. Without a review step, a wrong price, a typo in a product name or a discount nobody agreed on can land on five networks at once.

With Content Approval, posts from the roles you choose wait for a review. An approver reads the post, talks it through with the author in the same window and makes the call. Nothing is shared until it is approved.

How it works

1. In Settings > Approvals, you turn approvals on and pick the roles whose posts need a check, for example Editor and Author.
2. When someone with one of those roles writes a post in the composer or the calendar, the button reads Submit for review instead of Share now.
3. The approver opens the post. The content, the channels and the planned time sit on the left, the review panel on the right.
4. The approver approves the post, asks for changes or declines it. An approved post is shared at its planned time, or right away with Approve & share now.

Approve, request changes or decline

Approve sends the post on its way. Request changes sends it back to the author with a note, such as "Please add the price and the Friday start." The author edits the post and resubmits it with one click.

Decline is for posts that should never go out. A declined post can't be edited, resubmitted or approved. It stays in the list with its history, so the team can see why it was stopped.

The conversation stays with the post

Every post under review has an activity timeline. It shows who submitted it, every comment, each request for changes and the final decision. Anyone who can see the post can comment, so feedback doesn't get lost in chat apps or long email threads.

Easy to spot in the calendar

Posts in review are purple, posts with changes requested are orange and declined posts are red, in both the calendar and the list. One look tells you what is waiting for you and what is waiting for the author.

Notifications

FS Poster can tell approvers when a post is waiting and tell authors when it has been decided. Settings > Approvals creates the default notifications in one click. You can change them later in Settings > Notifications, add your own text or send them to Telegram.

Works with AI assistants too

Posts scheduled through AI assistants (MCP) follow the same rules. Connect the assistant as a user whose role needs approval, and every post it writes waits for a person to approve it.

Good to know

• Approvals cover posts written in the FS Poster composer and calendar. Auto-shared WordPress posts, the FS Poster box in the post editor and planners share as before.
• Administrators can always approve. You can let other roles approve too.
• Approvers see the posts on the channels they have access to, so give them at least Share access to the channels they review.
• Content Approval is included in the Developer and Lifetime plans.

The Content Approval documentation walks through the setup step by step.