> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.postiz.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Manage a channel

> Reconnect, rename, disable, delete, and everything in the channel menu

**Where:** Calendar, left sidebar, the `...` menu on any channel

Almost everything you do to a channel after connecting it lives in one menu.

## The channel menu

| Item                              | What it does                                                                         |
| --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Create a new post**             | Opens the composer with only this channel selected                                   |
| **Copy Channel ID**               | Copies the ID the Public API, CLI and MCP call `integration.id`                      |
| **Reconnect channel**             | Re-runs the authorisation. Only shown when the channel needs it                      |
| **Update Credentials**            | Re-enters the API key or password. Only for platforms where you supplied credentials |
| **Additional Settings**           | Platform-specific channel options, where the platform has any                        |
| **Change Bot Picture / Nickname** | Overrides how the channel appears on platforms that allow it                         |
| **Move / add to group**           | Assigns the channel to a customer                                                    |
| **Custom URL**                    | Overrides the link Postiz uses for the channel's public profile                      |
| **Edit Time Slots**               | The channel's default posting times, see [Time slots](/general/channels/time-slots)  |
| **Enable / Disable Channel**      | Takes the channel in or out of service without losing anything                       |
| **Delete**                        | Removes the channel permanently                                                      |

## Reconnecting

Access tokens expire. When one does, the channel gets a red marker in the
sidebar and its posts start failing. Clicking the marker, or **Reconnect
channel** in the menu, re-runs authorisation and the channel resumes.

A few things to know:

* Reconnecting **does not** count as connecting a new channel, so it does not
  consume a channel slot on a cloud plan.
* Posts that already failed are not retried automatically. Reschedule them.
* Reconnect as the same account. Authorising a different account creates a
  mismatch between the channel's history and its new identity.

## Disable vs delete

**Disable** takes a channel out of service. Its posts and history stay, and you
can enable it again at any time. This is the right choice when you want to stop
posting to a client's account, or, on cloud, when you need to free a slot.

**Delete** is permanent. Postiz refuses to delete a channel that still has
posts attached:

> You have to delete all the posts associated with this channel before
> deleting it

Delete those posts first, or disable the channel instead.

<Note>
  **On self-hosted Postiz:** there is no channel cap, so disabling is only about
  taking a channel out of service.
</Note>

## Bot picture and nickname

Some platforms let a post appear under a name and avatar that are not the
account's own, Discord and Telegram most usefully. **Change Bot Picture** and
**Change Bot Nickname** set those per channel, so a client's Discord posts can
carry their branding rather than yours.

## Additional settings

Platforms that carry channel-level options expose them here rather than in the
composer, because they apply to every post on that channel rather than to one
post. Not every platform has any.