Guides and Tutorials

What is SmartQ?

SmartQ is a tool that helps you automate creation and sharing of Product, Collage and Videos on social media networks.

SmartQs List

The SmartQ list shows you your existing SmartQ tasks. The SmartQs you add or remove are reflected in this list. You can edit or delete your SmartQs on this list.

General Settings

Name SmartQ

Here is where you name your SmartQ. A relevant name helps. For example: Morning Collage. Note: Please do not enter special characters in the name like apostrophe, exclamation, comma, full stop, etc.

Set Post Counts

Here is where you set your post counts. You can post up to three of each kind of content per day. For example, one Collage, one Long video, one Classic Video, one Product.

Daily Schedule

Here is where you set your schedule the products you want to use to create content around. You can tell SmartQ to choose products randomly or otherwise.

You can specify the time range; between which you want your postings to go to your social media.

For example, if you can instruct SmartQ to post only between 9am to 9pm (which is 21:00 hours in 24 hours format), SmartQ will schedule your postings only between 9am to 9pm only.

Outfy shows your default time zone from your profile. You can change the time zone for your postings as well.

For example - your time zone is EST-New York, but you want your postings to go between 2pm and 4pm PST – LA time, you can tell SmartQ to do this.

Note: Between Time works on 24 hours time format. 1pm equals 13:00 hrs and 12am is 24:00 hrs.

The screencap shows you your options.

Caption Settings

Use AI Generated captions

Use Outfy’s most powerful feature - AI generated captions and hashtags for your posts. These captions are generated using OpenAI’s services - the industry leader in artificial intelligence.

Customize how your captions are created by setting the following options:

• Include Product price
• Include Emojis
• Include Hashtags
• Include Product URL in Instagram caption

Additionally, you can add up to 5 custom hashtags tailored to your brand.

Custom hints - serve as suggestions to help the AI craft more relevant captions. You can also enable the Product Category hint to ensure the caption aligns more accurately with your product and brand.

Use Post Templates

If you are not using AI powered captions, you can use the regular templates for generating captions.

Templates

We have a separate Templates Guide to help you understand Templates fully.

For Templates, you can define which caption template you want to use. You can either select a template OR ask SmartQ to choose randomly from your defined caption templates.

Use a particular template if you want all your post templates to have a single type of caption

Use random templates if you have created more than one template and you want SmartQ to choose randomly among them.

Select Hashtags

Outfy allows you to create multiple hashtag clouds to use in postings. A hashtag cloud is a group of similar hashtags that could be related to your product, category or store. There is a separate user guide for how to set up and manage hashtag clouds. In this setting, you can tell SnartQ how to use your hashtags.

You can choose which hashtag cloud SmartQ will select hashtags to add to your postings. In hashtag clouds, there is a way to map your hashtag clouds with your product categories. You can use that mapping. In this case, SmartQ will pick the hashtags from the correct board, based on the category of the product.

If your product is in more than one category, SmartQ can choose the hashtags from any category randomly.

Primary Settings

Select Categories

Here is where you decide which product category or categories you want to use. The pull down menu lists your options.

Shorts (Video) Settings

Media templates

Here is where you decide which video template you want to use. The pull down menu shows you your options.

Background music

Here is where you decide which music you want to use. The pull down menu shows you your options.

Ending text

Each video is accompanied by an ending text which acts as the CTA (call to action). By default, it is set to "Shop Now" for videos. You can change it to something else like "Buy Now" or "Get it Today".

AI captions

Turn this option ON to get some amazing and dynamic captions in your videos. These video captions are generated from your product title and description.

Shop name and url

Here is where you put in the name and url of your store. The screencap shows you this exactly.

Store logo

Here is the button you press to decide whether or not you want your logo to appear.

Rotate image

Here is where you decide whether or not you want your products to be repeated when you post again on the same network.

Long (Video) Settings

Media templates

Here is where you decide which video template you want to use. The pull down menu shows you your options. You can choose square (1:1) templates suitable for Facebook, Instagram and Twitter or the Youtube format (9:16).

Background music

Here is where you decide which music you want to use. The pull down menu shows you your options.

Ending text

Each video is accompanied by an ending text which acts as the CTA (call to action). By default, it is set to "Shop Now" for videos. You can change it to something else like "Buy Now" or "Get it Today".

AI captions

Turn this option ON to get some amazing and dynamic captions in your videos. These video captions are generated from your product title and description.

Product Title and Price

At times, you may not want to show your product titles or the prices in your videos. Turn off the options for each accordingly.

Shop name and url

Here is where you put in the name and url of your store. The screencap shows you this exactly.

Store logo

Here is the button you press to decide whether or not you want your logo to appear.

Rotate image

Here is where you decide whether or not you want your products to be repeated when you post again on the same network.

Video Settings (will be deprecated soon)

Video template

Here is where you decide which video template you want to use. The pull down menu shows you your options.

Background music

Here is where you decide which music you want to use. The pull down menu shows you your options.

Fonts

Here is where you decide which font you want to use. The pull down menu shows you your options.

Shop name and url

Here is where you put in the name and url of your store. The screencap shows you exactly where and where.

Store logo

Here is the button you press to decide whether or not you want your logo to appear.

Rotate image

Here is where you decide whether or not you want your products to be repeated when you post again on the same network.

Classic Video Settings

Backgrounds

Here is where you decide the background for your Classic Video.

Stickers

Here is where you decide the sticker or stickers for your Classic Video.

Resolution

Choose a resolution which fits best for your Classic Videos:
- 1080 x 1350 px
- 540 x 675 px

Image count

Here is where you decide how many product images in your Classic Video and whether or not your want the images to be shuffled in the animation.

Store logo

Here is where you decide whether or not you want to add your store logo to your Classic Video.

Collage Settings

Frames

Here is where you decide whether or not you want your collage to have frames. The pull down menu shows you your options.

Stickers

Here is where you decide the sticker or stickers for your Collage.

Store logo

Here is where you decide whether or not you want and where to add your store logo to your Collage.

Rotate image

Here is where you decide whether or not you want your products to be repeated when you post again on the same network.

Product Settings

Rotate images

Here is where you decide whether or not you want your products to be repeated when you post again on the same network.

Network Settings

In this section, select the social media networks where you’d like SmartQ to publish your content. Use the toggle beside each network to turn posting ON or OFF.

Each social network has its own posting options. Outfy automatically sets them to the best defaults, but you can always adjust them based on your preferences.

Facebook Settings

• Pages: Select the business page you would like to post on.
• Post Video as:
  
  • Reels → Shorts (4:5), Classic videos (4:5), Long videos
  • Stories→ Only Shorts (9:16) are supported
• Post Collage as: Share them either to your feed as an image or as a Story.
• Post Product as:
  • Link Post → Clickable link takes viewers to the product page. Enable Share Multiple Images to create a carousel link.
  • Image Post → Shares the first product image in a larger view. Enable Share Multiple Images to post multiple images.
  • Story Post → Highlighted in Stories; only the first image will be shared.

Instagram Settings

• Post Video as: Post as Reels (shorts, classic, long) or Stories (shorts, classic, long)
• Post Collage as: Share as an Image (feed post) or a Story.
• Post Product as:
  • Image Post → Shares the first product image in a larger view. Enable Share Multiple Images to post multiple images.
  • Story Post → Highlighted in Stories; only the first image will be shared.

Threads Settings

• Post Product as:
  • Link Post → Clickable link directs to the product page. Enable Share Multiple Images for a carousel link.
  • Image Post → Shares the first product image in a larger view. Enable Share Multiple Images to post multiple images.
• Videos are posted directly to feed.
• Collages are posted as images to the feed.

TikTok Settings

• Share Multiple Images → Post several product images in one go.
• Who Can Watch This Post → Choose between Everyone, Friends, or Private.
• Auto Add Music → Automatically adds trending TikTok music (can be turned off).
• Disclose Post Content → Required by TikTok to label branded content:
  • Your Brand → If promoting your own brand.
  • Branded Content → If promoting another brand/product/service for payment or incentives.

YouTube Settings

• Channel → Select the YouTube channel for posting.
• Video Category → Choose the most relevant category (e.g., Pets & Animals, Autos & Vehicles) or leave default (People & Blogs).
• Video Visibility → Set as Public, Private, or Unlisted.
• Post Video as Shorts → Enable this to publish all videos as Shorts.

Pinterest Settings

• Board → Select the Pinterest board for posting.
• Section → Further organize posts by selecting a board section.
• Share Multiple Images → Post multiple images as a Pinterest carousel.

Twitter (X) Settings

• Post Product as:
  • Link Post → Clickable link directs to the product page. Enable Share Multiple Images for a carousel link.
  • Image Post → Shares the first product image in larger view. Enable Share Multiple Images to post multiple images.
• Videos → Posted directly to feed.
• Collages → Posted as an image to feed.

Miscellaneous Settings

In this section of SmartQ, you let SmartQ know whether or not you want content to be shared on social media networks on weekends. Also, whether or not to repeat SmartQ once every product has been shared.

Save SmartQ

Don't forget to save the instructions or you will have to do them all over again!