Buffer's calendar ends at publish. TribeNest keeps a client record under every post, so you see the DMs, the list adds and the sales each one triggered.
4,812 likes · 61k reach · 1,309 clicks
Where the report ends. You still don't know which post paid for itself.
12 new customers · $948 · 145 list adds
Every sale traces back to the post that made it, right down to the client's record.
Buffer's job ends the moment a post publishes. On TribeNest that's where the interesting part starts, in a module Buffer doesn't have.
Buffer's Essentials is $6 per channel per month and Team is $12, and that buys scheduling. A TribeNest plan includes your social accounts (2 on Starter, 6 on Pro, 10 on Business) along with your store, email, CRM, memberships and website. If scheduling is all you need, Buffer costs less. If you would pay for those other tools anyway, compare the whole bill.
Buffer posts to platforms you don't control and reports on numbers you can't bank. On TribeNest every engager, subscriber and buyer is yours: on your domain, exportable, paid through your own processor.
Every sale runs through your own Stripe or Paystack. We never take a cut, on any plan.
Money lands in your account, not ours. You set payouts, taxes and refunds.
Export every follower-turned-subscriber and buyer to CSV whenever you like. No lock-in.
Landing pages, store and list live on your domain, not a scheduler's link.
Buffer is a clean, reliable scheduler, and for plenty of teams that's the whole job. Here's the honest line.
Scheduling and approvals are all you need, your store, email and site already live elsewhere, and you're happy measuring success in reach and clicks.
You want each scheduled post to connect to a sale, a subscriber and a client record, with your store, email and CRM in the same plan instead of paying for a scheduler and everything else separately.
Every module is on from day one. Plans gate leverage, not features.
Run your whole business.
Put your growth on autopilot.
Everything most Buffer users want to know before switching.
Yes. Visual content calendar, bulk upload, drag-to-reschedule, draft approvals and optimal-time suggestions across 15 channels. The difference is that every scheduled post is linked to the DMs, list adds and sales it produces, not just likes.
Buffer bills per channel, for scheduling. A TribeNest plan includes a set number of social accounts (2 on Starter at $49, 6 on Pro at $149, 10 on Business at $499) together with your store, email, CRM, memberships and website. For scheduling alone Buffer costs less; TribeNest replaces the other tools as well.
15 right now: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Tumblr, Google Business, Telegram and WhatsApp. New channels ship roughly every quarter.
Because your store, email and CRM live in the same system, each post connects to the client it created. You can see which Reel drove three sales this week, not just how many likes it got. Buffer's report stops at reach and clicks.
Yes. Rebuild your posting schedule and approval steps in the TribeNest calendar during onboarding, usually in well under an hour, and keep your existing team review flow.
The trial runs at Pro level: scheduling on up to 6 connected accounts across our 15 networks, automations, email marketing, store, memberships and AI replies. When it ends you pick a plan, from $49 a month.
Mira reads which posts convert to revenue, not just reach, and proposes when to reschedule, boost or turn a post into an automation. She proposes; you approve every action before anything runs.
Move your calendar into a system where every post connects to the DM, the subscriber and the sale it created, on your own domain, at 0% commission.