Every new TikTok developer app starts out unaudited — and an unaudited client can typically only post privately, visible to the author alone. Getting your own app through TikTok's review process can take weeks. PostGate connects your customers through its own TikTok app, which has already completed that audit, so you can skip the wait and start publishing publicly right away. Once you have your own audited app, you can bring it in instead — see white-label & BYOK.
PostGate's default TikTok integration uses PostGate's own developer app, which has already been through TikTok's audit process. Your customers connect through it and can publish publicly from the start, without your product waiting on a review timeline that isn't in your control.
An unaudited TikTok client is generally limited to posting privately — visible only to the account owner — and to a capped number of distinct accounts that can ever authorize it. Neither restriction is a bug you can code around; they're enforced by TikTok server-side. Read the details in unaudited_client_can_only_post_to_private_accounts and TikTok's reached_active_user_cap error.
Every TikTok target on a post carries its own status, attempt count, error detail, and permalink once published. If a post lands as private because of an audit-related limit, PostGate's structured error envelope surfaces that reason specifically, instead of reporting a generic failure.
Customers authorize TikTok the same way they would for any provider — no separate developer account or app review required on your side.
{ mode: "inbox" }TikTok posts go through the same unified POST /api/posts endpoint as every other platform, with TikTok-specific options under post.options.tiktok.
When your own TikTok developer app passes audit, switch to it with a bring-your-own-key connection on PostGate's white-label plan — your quotas and approval status become yours alone.
Every PostGate plan — Free, Solo, Launch, and Build — includes TikTok through PostGate's audited app. No card required to start testing.