## Switching from another tool

Imports run from the workspace's **Import** page (or `POST /api/v1/workspaces/{ws}/imports/preview` then `…/imports/{id}/commit`). Every import previews first; each row ends scheduled, draft, parked for your decision, rejected (with the reason and a downloadable CSV of those rows), or already imported. Re-importing the same file changes nothing. Times in the past become drafts labelled “was due …” and never publish at import. You declare the file's timezone once; a time that a daylight-saving change makes ambiguous waits for you to pick. Accounts match by exact @handle or a mapping you confirm — never a guess — and confirmed mappings are remembered.

Every receipt says: “Imported from <source> on <date>. Content and schedule were copied from your <source> export. A1 Lane has NOT verified these posts with the platforms; delivery verification happens at publish time, as with any post.”

### Hootsuite

Export your Planner as CSV (Planner → Export → CSV) and import it with source “Hootsuite”. Content, media links and scheduled times carry over; approval history and team comments do not (each such row says so). Hootsuite's media links work for **7 days** after the export: give the export date, and a row whose link has expired or is dead is rejected naming the cause — never imported as text only. Multi-image posts become drafts listing every image URL.

### Buffer

Buffer has **no export of its queue**, so there is no one-click Buffer migration. Copy each queued post from Buffer's Publish tab into Buffer's own bulk template (`Text, Image URL, Tags, Posting Time`) and import it with source “CSV”, choosing the account the rows belong to. `Tags` become labels, not hashtags. Buffer's published-posts export can be imported with source “Buffer (published posts export)”: every row becomes a draft marked “caption may be incomplete — verify before scheduling”.

### Later

Later offers no export of scheduled posts, so there is no Later importer — this is a manual checklist.

- In Later, open the Media Library and download the photos and videos your scheduled posts use.
- Open Later's Calendar and copy each post's caption and date/time into the A1 Lane CSV template (columns: caption, destinations, scheduled_at, media_url). Use your connected @handle in destinations.
- Put each file at a public https link (or upload it to the A1 Lane library and use its media_id).
- Import the CSV here with source “CSV”, declare the timezone your Later calendar uses, preview, and commit. Past times become drafts; nothing publishes until it validates.

### Metricool and Postiz

Not available yet: we have not verified their export formats. Use the CSV template meanwhile; A1 Lane does not claim an importer it has not tested.

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HTML version: https://a1lane.ai/docs/migrate