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Getting Started

Create your first link, publish a Bio Page and find your way around the dashboard.

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Create your first short link

Shorten a URL, choose whether to let the system generate a slug or claim your own, and copy the result.

A short link is a name you own pointing at a destination you can change later. Creating one takes a destination URL and nothing else — everything on the form has a working default.

Open Links and choose Create link
The dashboard sidebar has Links as its second entry. The create dialog opens over the table so you keep your place in the list.
Paste the destination URL
Include the scheme. The destination is screened before the link is saved: private, loopback and link-local addresses are rejected, and so are hosts on the operator blocklist.
Leave the slug empty, or type one
Empty means a six-character slug is generated for you. Typing one claims it, if it is free and not on the reserved list.
Save and copy
The dialog closes onto the new row with a copy control on it. The link resolves immediately — there is no propagation delay on our side.

Slugs ignore capitalisation

A slug is stored with the capitals you typed, and it is shown that way everywhere — but it is looked up and reserved without regard to case. paddek.com/Launch and paddek.com/launch reach the same link, and claiming one takes the other. That is what makes a slug read off a poster or a business card survive being retyped in lowercase.

The Free plan holds 5 links at a time, with a daily allowance of 10 new ones. Every link on every plan gets a QR code and click analytics.

Publish a Bio Page

Claim a username, add blocks, pick a theme and publish a page that holds every link you share.

A Bio Page lives at your username and is built from ordered blocks. It is a separate object from your short links, with its own analytics and its own theme.

Claim a username
Three to thirty characters. Usernames on the reserved list — anything that would collide with a platform route — cannot be claimed.
Add blocks
Start with a header and a few link blocks. Drag to reorder; the order in the builder is the order visitors see.
Choose a theme
Colours, font family, button shape, button animation and background are all editable, and the preview updates as you change them.
Publish
An unpublished page returns a 404 to visitors, so you can build it in the open without anyone landing on a half-finished page.

Free includes 1 Bio Page, Pro 5, Business unlimited. Serving a Bio Page from your own domain needs a paid plan.

What each part of the dashboard does

A short map of the sidebar so you know where links, Bio Pages, QR codes, analytics, domains and billing live.

Section	What it is for
Dashboard	Totals for the current period, the click chart and your most recent links.
Links	The full table: search, filter by folder, tag, domain or status, and edit in place.
Bio Pages	The builder, the theme editor and per-block click counts.
QR Codes	Saved QR codes with their styling, downloadable as PNG or SVG.
Analytics	Time series and breakdowns across every link, or scoped to one.
Domains	Add a domain, see the exact DNS records to create, and re-run verification.
Folders	Nested grouping for campaigns and clients. A link belongs to at most one folder.
API	Create scoped API keys and, on Business, webhook endpoints.
Billing	Plan, interval, invoices and current usage against each limit.
Team	Members and roles, on Business.
Settings	Profile, password, sessions and account deletion.

Locked entries are shown, not hidden

Features your plan does not include still appear in the sidebar with a lock and a link to pricing. Hiding them would mean you could never discover what an upgrade actually buys.

Invite your team

Add teammates with Admin, Editor or Viewer roles and share domains, folders and links across the workspace.

Team workspaces are part of the Business plan, which allows up to 15 members.

Role	Can do
Owner	Everything, including billing and deleting the workspace. Exactly one owner.
Admin	Manage members, domains and every link. Cannot change billing.
Editor	Create and edit links, Bio Pages and QR codes. Cannot manage members or domains.
Viewer	Read links and analytics. No writes at all.

Every state change writes an audit entry with who did it, what they touched and what changed, visible on the team activity log.

Roles are enforced on the server

The interface hides what a role cannot do, but the check that matters runs in the handler. An Editor calling the API directly still cannot delete a domain.

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