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Team members are on Pro and Business. See Invite your team and set roles. When a team member’s post goes out, PublishBuddy has to post through someone’s login to that network. That login is the connection. For each team member and each social account, you choose which connection their posts use.

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The two options

The setting belongs to the post’s author. If an editor wrote the post, the editor’s setting for that account decides which login posts it. That holds even when an admin approves it. Account analytics always come through the owner’s connection, whatever the setting.

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Change the setting for a team member

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Open Team Members

Click Team Members in the sidebar. Click the ⋯ menu next to the person and choose Edit Social Accounts.
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Pick the connection

Each account has two drop-downs. The second one is the connection. Choose Use Owner’s Account Connection or Use Member’s Account Connection. Then click Save.
You also set it when you invite someone, in the last step of Invite Team Member.

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Connect your own login as a team member

Set to Use Member’s Account Connection? Connect your own login before you post.
1

Open the account's menu

Click Accounts in the sidebar. Click the ⋯ menu next to the account and choose Reconnect.
2

Log in

Log in to the network with your own login. It has to reach the same account. Another account stops with “Make sure you are logged into the correct account before reconnecting.”
You’ll see “The profile has been successfully reconnected.” From then on, your posts to that account go out through your login. Until you do this, the account shows the red reconnect warning for you, and your posts to it fail with this message: “You’re set to post to [account] with your own connection, but you haven’t connected [account] yet.” The message tells you to reconnect from your account. If the owner’s connection works, it also suggests asking the owner to switch you back.

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When an admin adds a new account

When an admin connects a new social account, PublishBuddy sets that admin to Use Member’s Account Connection for it, with their own login. The owner’s connection for that account doesn’t exist yet. So the owner should reconnect the account once. That sets up the owner’s connection, which analytics and anyone on Use Owner’s Account Connection rely on.

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Which one to pick

  • Use Owner’s Account Connection keeps it simple. One login, yours, posts for everyone. Team members never handle network logins. If your connection breaks, you reconnect once and it’s fixed for everyone on this setting.
  • Use Member’s Account Connection fits when a team member runs the account on the network themselves. Their posts go out through their login, and they keep it working by reconnecting it themselves.