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Setting up your publication

Getting a publication onto LinketySplit is a handful of steps, and none of them require any custom development up front.

1. Create your account

Sign in at LinketySplit with your email address — see Signing in to LinketySplit. The same account you use to buy articles elsewhere works here; there's no separate publisher signup.

2. Create your publication

From your account, create a publication record: its name, its home page URL, and who on your team should have access to its dashboard. Everything below — domains, pricing, API keys — lives under that publication, in its own dashboard.

3. Connect your domain

Add the domain your articles live on and verify you control it. LinketySplit needs a verified domain before it will sell access to anything published there. See Pricing and connecting your domain.

4. Set prices for your articles

Decide what a locked article costs — a single price, or a price with a discount for readers buying several copies at once. Also covered in Pricing and connecting your domain.

5. Generate an API key and integrate

Your site needs a way to ask LinketySplit for a purchase link and to know when a reader has actually paid. That's what the API key in your publication's settings is for — see Using the API and SDK for how to wire it up.

Once those five pieces are in place, any locked article on your site can point a reader at a real LinketySplit purchase page.