Problem:

Many businesses run seasonal, promotional, or time-bound campaigns (e.g., Christmas, tax season, back-to-school, summer specials). Currently, Category Queues run continuously unless manually paused, which makes seasonal content management cumbersome and error-prone.

Proposed Solution:

Add date-range controls to Category Queues so users can define when a category is active.

How It Would Work:

Users set a start date and end date for a Category Queue (e.g., Oct 1 – Dec 15 for Christmas promotions).

The Social Planner only schedules content from that category during the active date range.

Outside the defined window, the category is automatically paused and excluded from scheduling logic.

When the date range becomes active, the category automatically resumes without manual intervention.

Users can create multiple seasonal categories and reuse them year over year by simply updating dates.

Key Benefits:

Eliminates manual pausing and reactivation of seasonal queues.

Prevents out-of-season posts from being accidentally published.

Makes campaign and seasonal planning easier and more reliable.

Supports businesses with recurring annual or quarterly promotions.

Optional Enhancements:

Yearly recurring date ranges (e.g., every Oct 1 – Dec 15).

Visual indicators showing upcoming, active, and expired seasonal queues.

Notifications when a seasonal category is about to start or end.