Post Quota & Limits

Your Social Media plan includes a set number of posts per cycle. This page explains how that allowance works, what counts against it, when you'll hit a limit, and how the count resets - so there are no surprises when you build out a month of content.

How your allowance is set#

Your post allowance comes from your plan. Every paid Social Media plan includes a number of posts per cycle, and that number is attached to the plan itself - not to a single project setting you can change. Higher plans simply include more posts. For the exact number included with each plan, see Billing & Plans and the pricing page.

There are two kinds of cycles, depending on whether you're on a trial or a paid plan:

• Trial - your content plan covers a 7-day window with a small post allowance, so you can see real output before committing.
• Paid - your content plan covers a 30-day window, and your post allowance resets on a cycle aligned to your subscription's billing period.

When theStacc builds a content plan for you, it automatically fits the plan to whatever you have left this cycle. So if your allowance is nearly used up, you'll get a shorter plan that stops exactly at your limit rather than one that tries to schedule posts you can't create.

What counts toward your limit#

Only real posts count. Specifically, the quota counts every social post in the current cycle except ones that never produced anything:

• Cancelled posts don't count.
• Failed posts don't count (this includes a post whose generation failed, or one that missed its scheduled publish window).

This is deliberate, and it's good news for you: if one of our generations fails, it does not burn a slot. You can retry and still create your full allowance of successful posts. Every other post - drafts, generated posts, scheduled posts, and published posts - counts as one against your cycle allowance.

The count is per project. Each project has its own social allowance and its own cycle.

When you'll be blocked#

If creating new posts would push you past your allowance, theStacc stops you cleanly rather than silently overspending. You'll see a clear message - "Social post limit reached for this plan" - in two places:

1. Creating a content plan. When you generate this month's plan (or the next month's plan), theStacc checks your remaining allowance first. If you have some room left, it trims the plan to fit. If you have none left, it blocks the plan and tells you the limit was reached.
2. Creating a single post. When you create individual posts - for example, repurposing a published blog article into social drafts - theStacc checks whether the new posts fit. If they'd exceed your allowance, the request is blocked.

In both cases the message tells you how many posts you have left this cycle and suggests upgrading to create more. Nothing partial is left behind - you simply can't go over your plan.

Repurposing a blog and the free taste#

When you repurpose a published blog post into social drafts, those drafts count against your plan's cycle allowance like any other posts. The one exception is the free taste: if you don't yet have a paid Social Media plan, you get a single free repurposed draft to try it out, and that free draft does not count against any plan allowance.

How the quota resets#

Your count resets every cycle:

• On a paid plan, the allowance refreshes each cycle aligned to your subscription's billing period - typically monthly. Posts created in a previous cycle don't count against the new one.
• On a trial, the allowance is tied to your trial window.

There's nothing to do to reset it - it happens automatically at the start of each new cycle.

Older accounts without a plan code#

The per-cycle social limit applies to plans that include a posts-per-cycle allowance (the trial and the paid tiers). If your account predates this allowance and isn't tied to one of these plans, your social posting is treated as unlimited - you won't be newly capped. If you're unsure which applies to you, check Settings > Billing or contact support.

"Temporarily unavailable" while publishing#

The post limits above are about your plan allowance. Separately, the service that delivers your posts to the social platforms has its own short-term rate limits. If a lot of publishing happens at once, you may briefly see a message like "Too many requests to the social publishing service. Please wait a moment and try again."

This is temporary and is not the same as hitting your plan's post limit. It doesn't consume any of your allowance. Wait a moment and retry, and the post will go through. If it keeps happening, contact support.

Need more posts?#

If you're regularly hitting your allowance, you have room to grow:

• Upgrade your plan for a larger per-cycle allowance. See Billing & Plans to compare and change plans - upgrades take effect immediately.
• Plan with your allowance in mind. Because theStacc fits each content plan to what you have left, generating your plan early in the cycle gives the AI the most room to work with.

Related#

• Billing & Plans - what each plan includes, trials, and how to upgrade.
• Content Plans & Generation - how content plans, pillars, scheduling, and post generation work.