How to use Soclo.
In plain English.
Step-by-step walkthroughs of what is really on the screen, with the buttons named as the app names them. 25 guides, covering the app, the website editor and Soclo MCP. Want a quick answer instead? Read the FAQ →
Start here
The first hour, and the map of the app.
How Soclo is organised
A map of the app: what each of the five areas is for, where the settings that matter live, and what you can safely ignore at first.
Open guide →6 min readGetting started with Soclo
What to do in your first hour: create the account, pick one place to start, and understand plans and credits before you spend anything.
Open guide →8 min readYour first month with Soclo
A week-by-week order for setting up without trying to use all of it at once, and how to tell in week four whether it is working.
Open guide →8 min readSetting up your Brand Kit
The setup that stops generated work sounding generic. What each part captures, and the entries most people skip.
Open guide →Asking Soclo for things
The chat inside the app, the templates, and letting it run.
Using Soclo AI
Where the chat lives, what to ask it, how it shows its sources when it searches the internet, and exactly which of its cards can spend money.
Open guide →9 min readUpdatedHow Autopilot works
Approve first or do it for me, what Reject actually does, the per-account posting switches, and the ceilings Soclo can never raise.
Open guide →7 min readMaking it sound like you
What to change when the writing does not sound like you, and why fixing it upstream beats editing every post.
Open guide →8 min readNewAdding Soclo to the AI you already use
What Soclo MCP is, the one address to paste, the steps for Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and Kimi, and what each permission allows.
Open guide →Posting and replying
Getting work out, and answering what comes back.
Connecting your accounts and publishing
What a connection actually is, the account types each of the fifteen platforms needs, why connections drop, and how to read a failed post.
Open guide →6 min readPublishing your first post
What happens when one post becomes several, what to check before you press it, and how to read a post that only partly worked.
Open guide →6 min readScheduling and planning ahead
How far ahead to plan, what should never be scheduled, and the connection check that stops a launch failing quietly.
Open guide →5 min readNewOne inbox for everything people say
How comments, reviews, mentions and messages arrive in one list, what the six filters mean, and what to do when something has not synced.
Open guide →8 min readAutomatic replies
The five things always handed to you, why only answers you wrote yourself send unattended, and how to rehearse it without messaging anyone.
Open guide →Ads and money coming in
Paid campaigns, your website, and what you sold.
Running ads, and Ads Watch
Building a campaign, why every one is created paused, what the Start spending question means, and what Ads Watch does while you get on with the day.
Open guide →9 min readNewBuilding and editing your website
Starting a site, changing words and pictures, adding pages and sections, the checks that run before publishing, and taking it offline again.
Open guide →7 min readPublishing your website
Choosing your web address, what publishing actually exposes, and how to take the site down again without losing your work.
Open guide →7 min readUpdatedTaking payments with Soclo Pay
Setting up Soclo Payments, adding a Pay button to your site in two fields, and what a payment link is genuinely good for.
Open guide →6 min readNewOrders & customers
Where your orders, customers, enquiries and bookings appear, what each payment state means, and how to mark an order shipped or collected.
Open guide →7 min readReading your Results
Why a blank is not a zero, why Soclo will not tell you which post made a sale, and how to read figures that arrive with their age attached.
Open guide →Plans, credits and limits
What things cost, and what Soclo will not do.
How Soclo credits work
Which actions spend credits and which are free, what a Standard and a Premium picture cost, and six ways to stop wasting them.
Open guide →7 min readUpdatedChoosing the right plan
What things cost in credits, what each plan buys in real work, the 3-day free trial, and where the per-credit saving starts.
Open guide →7 min readUpdatedManaging your subscription
Where your subscription lives, how the free trial converts, how to switch or cancel, and the deletion trap that leaves people still paying.
Open guide →6 min readWhat Soclo will never do without asking
The boundaries that do not move: money decisions that always need you, why Soclo never sees your passwords, and how to withdraw access.
Open guide →7 min readYour account and your data
What Soclo holds, which privacy settings change something, and exactly what deletion removes and what it leaves alone.
Open guide →8 min readWhen something goes wrong
What Soclo’s messages actually mean and what to do: expired connections, posts that only partly worked, and the ones that are not errors at all.
Open guide →We do not write guides for things you cannot use.
Every guide above covers something that is live, or that is live on the day this update ships. Where a screen was still being finished as the guide was written, the guide says so rather than describing a screen you will not find. The product updates page tracks what has landed, and guides follow as more opens up.
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