What pay-as-you-go scheduling changes for a manager

Pay-as-you-go scheduling changes which bill exists. A manager who used to pay a monthly subscription for a separate scheduler stops paying that subscription for the posts the allowance covers. Past the allowance, each automatic post has a fee. The fee is the one on the pricing page, shown again when you schedule. It is not a market rate, and it is not a salary.

Our article, How social media managers can make more money in 2027 without raising client fees, is the month-by-month math. Our article, How to price a social media retainer when scheduling is free, is what stays on the invoice. This page is the stack.

What Leaves, And What Replaces It

The thing that leaves is a tool whose job was only to hold a calendar and publish it. If that tool was a monthly line in your own costs, the line can go once the accounts are connected and the posts are scheduled in TheAlterMeAI.

What replaces it is a quota plus a usage fee.

• The first 30 automatic posts on each connected account are free each calendar month. The month is UTC. Unused posts do not roll over. The slot is spent when you schedule, including if you later delete the post or a network refuses it.
• Post 31 on that account, in that month, uses the pay-as-you-go schedule fee. There is no second, secret rate. The pricing page and the scheduler show the same fee.
• A reminder is outside the quota. It does not publish for you, it does not spend a free slot, and it still carries the schedule fee.
• AI drafts, email sends, and WhatsApp usage draw on Work Funds. They are not "included in the free posts."

Our article, How to run LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook from one calendar, is the setup that makes the quota real. One profile, the client's own accounts, their own 30 on each. Our article, What Is TheAlterMeAI, is the rest of the workspace around that calendar.

What You Tell The Client, And What You Keep

The client does not need your old subscription on their invoice, and they do not get a discount because you cancelled it. They were paying you for strategy, writing, design, replies, and reporting. The scheduler was your cost of delivery. Our article, How to write a social media proposal that lists the work, not the tool, puts the quota in the document so a 31st post is a planned line, not a surprise on the wallet.

If a launch week needs two posts a day on one account, price those posts before the week. Sixty automatic posts in a 30-day month is 30 inside the allowance and 30 at the fee. You can hold that inside the retainer or name it as an extra. Either way you looked at the fee first.

What Does Not Change

The voice work does not get cheaper because publishing did. A free post that sounds like a template still costs the relationship. The vault on that client's profile is what the drafts read. Our article, What to collect from a client before the first AI draft, stays week one.

Email and WhatsApp do not become free because scheduling has an allowance. Our article, When a brand on WhatsApp still needs email, keeps those as their own usage. Look at the pricing page for the per-recipient email rate and the WhatsApp rate before you promise a weekly letter on top of a daily social post.

Work Funds are in USD. You can pay in USD, or in local currency when that checkout is turned on, and the wallet is credited in USD. The fee you are watching is the USD fee.

Create your account and read the fee on the pricing page before you cancel the other scheduler. The allowance is real once the accounts are connected. The other subscription should leave only after the next month is already on the new calendar.