Pinterest works differently from most social platforms. A Pin has a long life, surfacing in search months after it was published, which makes consistent pinning matter more than perfect timing.
That’s exactly what makes the native scheduler’s main limit awkward.
Pinterest’s own scheduler
Note: These limits come from Pinterest’s own help article on scheduling Pins, checked on 29 August 2026.
- How far ahead: up to 30 days
- How many at once: one Pin at a time
- Queue cap: up to 10 Pins scheduled for the future
- Editing: date, title, board, description and link can be changed. The image or video cannot
- Account: business accounts
Thirty days looks generous until you notice the ten-Pin ceiling.
Pinterest rewards regular pinning, and plenty of accounts pin daily or more. At one Pin a day, a ten-Pin queue is ten days of runway. At three a day it’s three. The 30-day window is only reachable if you pin rarely, which is the opposite of what the platform rewards.
The second constraint compounds it: Pins are scheduled one at a time. There’s no bulk step, so ten scheduled Pins means going through the create flow ten times.
What Pinterest accepts
Through BulkPublish:
| Description length | 500 characters |
| Post types | Pin, Video Pin, Carousel |
| Images | Up to 5, 20 MB each, JPG or PNG |
| Video | Up to 2 GB, MP4 or MOV |
Descriptions are search text
This is the thing people cross-posting to Pinterest get wrong.
On most platforms a caption is written for someone already looking at the post. On Pinterest, the description is largely how the Pin gets found later, because Pinterest behaves more like a search engine than a feed.
So a Pinterest description should say plainly what the thing is, in the words someone would search for. A cross-posted Instagram caption full of personality and hashtags does neither job.
Scheduling one
- Connect your Pinterest account
- Choose Pin, Video Pin or Carousel
- Upload the image or video and pick a board
- Write a description that reads like search text
- Pick a date and time and queue it
Media rules and description length are checked before the Pin is queued.
Pinning at volume
If you pin often, the workflow that actually holds up is batching: create a set of Pins in one sitting, queue them across the following weeks, and top up monthly.
That’s not possible in the native scheduler because of the ten-Pin cap and the one-at-a-time flow. It’s the specific reason most regular pinners end up using something else, rather than any missing feature.
BulkPublish publishes to Pinterest and 14 other networks: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Threads, Bluesky, Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Discord, Telegram, Tumblr and Snapchat.
- Channels: Free: 3 (1 per platform). Pro: 30 (2 per platform). Business: 75 (5 per platform).
- Posts: Free: 3/day. Pro: 30/day. Business: unlimited.
- Storage: Free: 100 MB. Pro: 2 GB. Business: 10 GB.
There’s no separate cap on queued Pins beyond your plan’s posting limits, so a month of daily pinning is one batch rather than three top-ups.
The short version
Pinterest schedules natively up to 30 days out, one Pin at a time, with a maximum of 10 waiting. That suits occasional pinning. If you pin at the frequency Pinterest actually rewards, the queue cap is what sends you elsewhere. And write the description as search text, not as a caption.