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Guides, references and troubleshooting for publishers and readers.

Getting started

Create your workspace and publish your first article.

Create your workspace

Sign up, pick a workspace slug (this becomes your URL), invite your team, and complete the 10-step setup wizard. The wizard is optional — you can leave and resume any time.

Publish your first article

From the dashboard, open Publications → New publication → New issue → New article. Write or paste your content, click Publish. The article is immediately live at your reader URL.

Connect a custom domain

Workspace → Branding → Domains. Add your domain, add the DNS records shown, click Verify. Verification typically takes 5–30 minutes for DNS propagation.

Team & roles

Invite editors, writers, and admins with the right permissions.

Invite team members

Workspace → Team → Invite. Choose role (Owner, Admin, Editor, Writer, Viewer). Invitees receive an email to accept.

Role permissions

Owners manage billing and destroy actions. Admins configure the workspace. Editors approve and publish. Writers draft articles. Viewers read analytics only.

Imports

Bring existing content in from PDF, DOCX, InDesign, HTML and Markdown.

Import a PDF

Publication → Imports → Upload PDF. The AI splitter extracts articles, headlines, bylines and images. Review the split, edit as needed, then approve to publish.

Import DOCX or Markdown

Direct upload — headings become article boundaries, images are uploaded to your media library. Bulk-import a whole issue in one file.

InDesign (IDML) imports

Export your InDesign document as IDML and upload. Text frames become article body, image frames become media assets, styles map to typography tokens.

AI features

Editorial assistance, translation, summarization, and voice reading.

AI editorial assistant

Inside the editor, select any text and open AI. Rewrite, shorten, expand, translate, or generate SEO metadata. All outputs are stored under editorial review — nothing publishes without your approval.

Voice reading (text-to-speech)

Every article exposes a Listen mode in the Adaptive Reader. Voices are generated on demand and cached. Configure default voice per workspace under Branding → Reader.

AI review queue

Workspace → AI review. Approve, reject or edit AI-generated summaries, translations and metadata before they go live.

Monetization

Paywalls, subscriptions, coupons and advertising.

Set up subscription plans

Workspace → Monetize → Plans. Create tiers, pricing, currencies and billing intervals. Stripe (global) and Razorpay (India) are supported out of the box.

Configure the paywall

Workspace → Monetize → Paywall. Choose metered (N free articles per month) or hard paywall (premium articles locked). Preview the reader-side experience before publishing.

Run an ad campaign

Workspace → Advertisers → New campaign. Choose an ad type (banner, interactive, WhatsApp lead), set targeting, budget and schedule. Analytics update in near real time.

Analytics

Understand readers, revenue and content performance.

Reader analytics

Workspace → Analytics → Readers. Sessions, returning readers, geography, referrer, reading time distribution.

Content performance

Workspace → Analytics → Content. Article-level engagement, scroll depth, completion rate, share rate, and AI-generated insights.

Revenue dashboard

Workspace → Revenue. MRR, ARR, LTV, churn, and ad revenue. Executive summary with month-over-month deltas.

Security & compliance

SSO, audit, GDPR and data controls.

GDPR data export & deletion

Any reader can request export or deletion from their Account. Workspace admins can also action requests from Workspace → Compliance.

Enable SAML SSO

Enterprise plan. Contact your success manager with your IdP metadata; SSO is configured within one business day.

Audit log

Workspace → Audit. Immutable trail of every privileged action. Filter by actor, action, entity, date range. Export to CSV.

Support & troubleshooting

Common issues, contact routes and status.

Reader can't sign in

Ask the reader to check their spam folder for the magic link. Magic links expire after 15 minutes — request a fresh one from the auth page.

Import failed

Common causes: file over 100MB, scanned PDF without OCR, or unsupported InDesign version (below CS6). Retry with a smaller file or contact support with the import ID.

Contact support

Email support@smartpress.example or use the /contact form. Enterprise customers have a private Slack Connect channel.

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