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Set up your social media autopilot in one afternoon.

Jun 02, 2026 · 8 min read · SmashOne Team
A shop owner sits at a wooden counter in his store, working on a laptop.

You run a business, so you already wear every hat. Posting to Facebook, answering messages late at night, keeping a Telegram channel alive — it is the work that always slips. Most days it just does not happen.

Here is the good news. You can hand all of it off in a single afternoon. Three steps, start to finish: you connect your accounts, you load a month of posts, and you switch on the assistant that answers your messages. After that it runs on its own, and you get back to the work only you can do. Let's walk through it.


Step 1

Connect your channels

Start by linking the places your customers already find you: Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. Connecting simply means you give SmashOne permission to post and reply for you. You sign in to each account once, approve the connection, and that channel is ready. All three together take about ten minutes.

You stay in control the whole time. Nothing goes out that you did not plan, and you can disconnect any channel with one click. Think of it like handing a trusted helper the keys — you decide what they can touch, and you can take the keys back whenever you want.


Step 2

Load a month of posts

This is the part that saves you the most time. Instead of posting one thing at a time, all week long, you sit down once and plan the whole month in front of you.

A baker in an apron plans posts on a tablet in her bakery kitchen.
Plan a whole month in one sitting, while your notes are in front of you.

Open the content calendar and drop in your posts — a special this week, a photo of what's new, a friendly reminder about your hours. You can schedule up to five posts a day, which is more than enough for almost any business. Batch them all in one sitting, and the calendar takes care of the rest. Each post goes out at the time you picked, on every channel you chose, without you lifting a finger.

You sit down once and plan the whole month — then the calendar takes care of the rest.

Think in themes, not single posts

Give each day a job. Monday is a behind-the-scenes shot, Wednesday is a customer favorite, Friday is the weekend plan. Once you have a rhythm, filling a month takes less time than you would guess — and your feed stays steady instead of going quiet for two weeks at a stretch.


Step 3

Switch on AI replies

The last step handles your messages. Customers send DMs at all hours — are you open Sunday, do you have this in blue, how much for a trim. The assistant answers the routine ones for you, using the business details you give it: your hours, your prices, your services.

A hardware store owner checks customer messages on his phone between the aisles.
Routine questions get answered day and night, in your own words.

Your plan includes 1,000 AI replies a month — plenty for steady, day-to-day questions. Every customer sees a short note that they are chatting with an assistant, so no one is fooled. And when a conversation needs a real person — a complaint, a custom order, anything tricky — it hands the chat straight to you. You can also turn the assistant off for any single channel if you would rather answer those yourself.

What it costs

$99/month after a 14-day free trial — no charge until day 15. Setup help from a SmashOne Automator is $199, charged on day 15.


A realistic afternoon

2:00 PM Connect Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram.
2:40 PM Load a month of posts into the calendar.
3:30 PM Switch on AI replies and set your business details.
Done Close the laptop.

What tomorrow morning looks like

You don't have to think about any of it. Your first posts go out while you are unlocking the door. The messages that came in overnight already have answers waiting. You pour your coffee, open the inbox, and skim what's there — replying only to the few that truly need you.

The rest is handled. That is the whole point: your social media keeps working, steady and present, even on the days you can't get to it. One afternoon of setup, and your shop is always answering — so you can spend your time on the part of the business that needed you all along.


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