Getting Started

Welcome to ViewsBase. This guide walks you through the full setup from your first login to your first payment.

1. Accept Your Invite

Your organization admin will send you an email invite. Click the link in the email to confirm your account. You'll be redirected to your organization's dashboard automatically.

If you're the first user in a new organization, your dashboard will include a demo campaign pre-loaded with sample creators and videos so you can explore the interface immediately. You can dismiss the demo whenever you're ready.

2. Create a Campaign

From your org dashboard, click New Campaign in the top right. Give it a name — the URL slug is generated automatically (e.g., "Summer Launch" becomes summer-launch).

Each campaign is an independent workspace with its own creators, videos, analytics, and payment tracking. See Campaign Dashboard for a full tour of what's inside.

3. Add Creators

Navigate to the Creators tab inside your campaign and click Add Creator. You'll need:

• Handle — their TikTok or Instagram username (e.g., @alexcreates)
• Platform — TikTok or Instagram
• Deal terms — the CPM rate and view cap for this campaign

You can set a simple single rate (one CPM + one cap) or a tiered deal with multiple rates based on audience quality. See Payment Engine for details on how deals work.

Each creator automatically gets a unique access code they can use to log in to the Creator Portal and check their own earnings.

4. Track Videos

Once creators start posting, their videos need to be added to the campaign.

Via Discord Bot (recommended): Creators submit their own videos using /submit-post in Discord. Stats are fetched automatically and the video appears on your dashboard instantly. See Discord Bot for setup.

Both TikTok and Instagram are tracked automatically. Views and engagement stats refresh every 6 hours. After 7 days, videos are auto-finalized with earnings calculated, or auto-rejected if they have under 1,000 views. See Integrations for platform-specific details.

See Video Lifecycle for the full status pipeline and Integrations for platform-specific details.

5. Process Payments

Once videos are finalized, their earnings are locked and ready for payment.

1. Go to the Payments tab to see a summary grouped by creator
2. Review pending and finalized amounts
3. Click the copy button to export the payment summary as formatted text
4. Pay creators through your preferred method and mark videos as Paid in the Posts tab

The formula is simple: min(views, cap) × CPM ÷ 1000. See Payment Engine for worked examples and tier selection.

6. Invite Your Team

Once your campaign is set up, invite team members to help manage it.

1. Go to Members in the top nav
2. Click Invite Member, enter their email, and pick a role
3. For org members, assign them to specific campaigns with a campaign role (Admin/Editor/Viewer)

They'll receive an email and get access as soon as they log in. See Roles & Permissions for the full breakdown.

7. Link Your Discord Account (Optional)

If your team uses the Discord Bot, you can link your Discord account to ViewsBase for identity verification.

1. Go to Account in the top nav
2. Click Connect Discord
3. Authorize via Discord OAuth
4. Your Discord username and avatar will appear on your account page

This lets the Discord bot verify who you are when managing campaigns.

What's Next

• Campaign Dashboard — learn what each tab does
• Video Lifecycle — understand how videos move from active to paid
• Roles & Permissions — set up your team with the right access levels
• Discord Bot — let creators submit posts from Discord