What to Do If Your Drop Has More Than 50 Items
Instagram only allows 50 automated posts per rolling 24 hours, so a big drop pauses once it hits 50. Nothing is broken — the quickest fix is to post the rest yourself and link them back to your drop.
- The first 50 items post automatically, then your drop pauses to protect your account.
- What we recommend: post the rest on Instagram yourself — then link each post to the item it belongs to, or use Add posts to pull in brand-new items. No waiting.
- Linked posts work exactly like the automatic ones — comments, checkout links, and orders all still happen.
Why it pauses
Instagram limits automated (API) posting to 50 posts per rolling 24 hours. To keep your account safe, Thryft Ship automatically pauses after 50 posts rather than pushing past the limit. The first 50 items are already live; the rest are just waiting.
Getting the rest into your drop
Post your remaining items to Instagram yourself the normal way — right from your phone, no waiting. How you connect them to your drop depends on the situation:
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Items were already in your drop but didn't post? Link them
This is the usual case after a pause: the items are already in this drop, they just didn't make it out. Post each one to Instagram yourself, then click Link Post and match it to the drop item it belongs to. That reconnects the post so the Sales Assistant tracks its comments and bids like normal.
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Want to add brand-new items? Use “Add recent posts”
Different situation: you posted your 50, but now you want to add more items that weren't in the drop at all — say another 20. Post them to Instagram, then click Add posts on the “Add recent posts to this drop” card. Thryft Ship pulls those recent posts in as new items and tracks their bids the same way.
Grab your captions from Inventory
When you post the extras by hand, you don't have to rewrite a thing. Open the Inventory tab, click the item, and copy its caption — then paste it straight into your Instagram post. Everything (price, details, your formatting) comes with it.
Prefer to schedule ahead? Link those too
If you like to line your posts up in advance, you can schedule the overflow through a third-party scheduling app (whatever you already use), let those posts go live on their own, and then Link each one back to your drop in Thryft Ship. Because you're not posting them through Thryft Ship's automation, they don't count against the limit — and once linked, they behave exactly like the automatic ones.
Common questions
Did my drop break?
No — it just hit Instagram’s limit of ~50 automated posts per rolling 24 hours and paused. Your first 50 items are live and the rest are ready to go.
Do manually linked items still get checkout links?
Yes — linked posts behave just like automatic ones: comment replies, checkout links, orders, and tracking all work.
Do I have to wait for the pause to clear?
No. The pause clears once Instagram’s 24-hour posting window resets, but you don’t have to wait — the faster path is to post the remaining items on Instagram yourself and Link them back to your drop.
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