Pricing and connecting your domain

Before LinketySplit will sell access to anything on your site, two things need to be in place: LinketySplit has to know you actually control the domain, and each article needs a price.

Verifying your domain

Add your domain from your publication's dashboard, then prove you control it with whichever of these is easiest for your setup:

• DNS TXT record — add a TXT record at your DNS provider with the name and value the dashboard gives you. This is usually the right choice, but some hosts don't let you add a TXT record alongside a CNAME at the same name — if that's you, use one of the options below instead.
• Meta tag — paste a <meta> tag into your site's <head>.
• File — upload a small verification file to a fixed path on your domain.

Whichever method you pick, verification runs a check against your domain and flips it to verified once it finds what it's looking for. DNS changes in particular can take a few minutes to propagate, so a failed check right after adding a TXT record usually just means "try again shortly."

Setting your default price

Your dashboard's pricing settings set the price LinketySplit charges for any article on your domain that doesn't specify its own — a single default price for one copy of access, with no per-article setup required to get started.

You can also add discount tiers to that default — a lower per-copy price once a reader buys a certain quantity at once. A reader buying five copies to share with colleagues, for instance, might pay less per copy than someone buying just one for themselves. Tiers are entirely optional; plenty of publications ship with a single flat default price and nothing else.

An individual article can override the default with its own price by carrying a bit of markup on its page — see Using the API and SDK for how that works, and for how a purchase link actually gets created once a domain is verified and a price is set.