For a typical agency, one to two weeks end to end: a day or two of account connections per client wave, an afternoon of content transfer via CSV, and a week of parallel running for verification. Solo accounts move in a day; large rosters stretch to three or four weeks in waves.
Migration timelines get overestimated because people imagine rebuilding everything by hand and underestimated because they forget the coordination step, waiting on clients to authorize accounts. The realistic answer sits between.
Account connections are the long pole: each client's networks must be authorized in the new platform, and anything requiring client-side action, admin access to a Facebook Page, an Instagram business account login, moves at the client's speed. Budget a few days per wave of clients, driven by response time rather than effort. Content transfer is fast when done right: export or copy the active queue, remap to the new tool's bulk-upload format, reattach media, and import, an afternoon for a few weeks of queue across a mid-size roster. Verification is the phase teams skip and regret: a week of parallel running while the first posts publish from the new platform, formats get checked per network, and reporting is confirmed per client.
A freelancer with three clients completes everything in a day or two. A ten-client agency lands in the one-to-two-week range using the parallel-run sequence. Twenty-five or more clients should move in waves of five to eight, stretching the calendar to three or four weeks while keeping any single week's workload small.
Three accelerants: warning clients ahead so authorizations come back same-day, bulk import instead of manual re-entry, and doing setup once per client properly, workspace, users, approval flow, report template, rather than twice sloppily. Cloud Campaign's Agency plan includes migration tools for exactly this transfer, and its workspace-per-client structure means each wave arrives into a clean container rather than a shared pile.
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