# Fanaura Documentation

- [Welcome to Fanaura](https://help.fanaura.com/introduction.md): Fanaura gives independent artists the marketing power of a major label. One fan database, automated release marketing, and Aura Chat to operate it all.
- [Creating Your Account](https://help.fanaura.com/getting-started/creating-your-account.md): Sign up for Fanaura with your email and password, choose your role, and verify your email to get started.
- [Onboarding](https://help.fanaura.com/getting-started/onboarding.md): Step-by-step guide from signup through Spotify and Instagram verification to your Fanaura dashboard.
- [Your First Presave Campaign](https://help.fanaura.com/getting-started/first-presave-campaign.md): A quick-start tutorial to add your first music asset, launch a presave campaign, share the smart link, and start collecting fan data.
- [Navigation Guide](https://help.fanaura.com/getting-started/navigation.md): Learn your way around Fanaura's dashboard, sidebar navigation, header, mobile layout, and quick actions.
- [Inviting Your Team](https://help.fanaura.com/getting-started/inviting-your-team.md): Add managers, label reps, marketing teams, attorneys, and other collaborators to your Fanaura account with role-based permissions.
- [Billing at Signup](https://help.fanaura.com/getting-started/billing-at-signup.md): How Fanaura billing works when you create an account. Plan choice, first charge, messaging credits, and what happens if you cancel.
- [Dashboard Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/dashboard/index.md): Your real-time command center. Understand stat cards, date range filters, fan growth charts, recent activity, and active launches.
- [Active Launches](https://help.fanaura.com/dashboard/active-launches.md): Track your live campaigns from the dashboard widget and the full launches page. Understand progress bars, stage badges, milestone markers, and fan counts.
- [Assets Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/index.md): Everything you create and promote lives in Assets — music releases, tours, merchandise, and extras. Learn how to organize, manage, and showcase your content.
- [Adding a music asset — building a pre-save campaign](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/music/adding-a-release.md): Ingest a music asset in Fanaura to launch a pre-save campaign, capture fan data, and promote your track. Fanaura does not distribute music to streaming services.
- [ISRC and UPC Explained](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/music/isrc-and-upc.md): What ISRC and UPC codes are, where to find them, why they matter for your Fanaura pre-save campaigns, and how they power automatic streaming link fetching.
- [Pre-Save Campaigns](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/music/presave-campaigns.md): How pre-save campaigns work in Fanaura from start to finish. Setup, native notification pre-save, data collection, release day notifications, and analytics.
- [Streaming Links](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/music/streaming-links.md): How Fanaura automatically finds and populates streaming links on release day using your ISRC code — plus manual override options and link click tracking.
- [Music Analytics](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/music/analytics.md): Deep dive into your music release analytics — presave funnels, platform breakdowns, location data, stream click tracking, trend charts, and CSV exports.
- [Managing Releases](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/music/managing-releases.md): How to edit, update, and manage your music releases after creation — artwork, dates, platform links, visibility, reordering, and archiving.
- [Creating a Tour](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/tours/creating-a-tour.md): How to create a new tour in Fanaura — tour name, poster, dates, pre-sale configuration, on-sale settings, visibility, and support artists.
- [Adding Events](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/tours/adding-events.md): How to add tour events in Fanaura — venue search, event dates and times, ticket information, pre-sale configuration, and auto-populated location data.
- [RSVPs and Ticket Comps](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/tours/rsvps-and-comps.md): How fan RSVPs and complimentary ticket comps work in Fanaura — tracking RSVPs, creating comp offers, generating unique codes, will-call lists, and 24-hour reminders.
- [Support Artists](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/tours/support-artists.md): How to add opening acts and support artists to your tour in Fanaura — Spotify search integration, AI-generated bios, and support artist cards on your tour page.
- [Embed Widget](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/tours/embed-widget.md): Generate embeddable tour date widgets for your website — choose from four style presets, customize colors, preview live, and copy the embed code to your clipboard.
- [Adding Merch](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/merch/adding-merch.md): Add merchandise to Fanaura with a product image, title, and external store link — no third-party store integration required.
- [Managing Merch Products](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/merch/managing-products.md): Edit manual merch items in Fanaura — visibility, images, external links, reordering, and smart link analytics.
- [Extras Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/assets/extras/index.md): Everything about Extras in Fanaura — music videos, lyric videos, livestreams, giveaways, meetups, VIP experiences, Q&A sessions, and custom content types.
- [Fan Management Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/index.md): Your fan database is the heart of Fanaura. Learn how every interaction gets tracked and how to use your unified fan view to grow your audience.
- [Fan Directory](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/directory.md): The Fan Directory is your searchable, sortable master list of every fan in your database. Learn how to search, filter, sort, and take action on your fans.
- [Fan Profiles](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/profiles.md): Every fan gets a detailed profile page in Fanaura. Learn how to read activity timelines, view conversations, track VIP progress, and manage individual fan data.
- [Fan Heatmaps](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/heatmaps.md): Visualize where your fans are located on an interactive map. Use fan density data to plan tours, target campaigns by geography, and identify underserved markets.
- [Fan Lists & Segments](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/lists.md): Organize your fans into targeted lists for blasts, flows, and precision marketing. Learn how to create, manage, and use fan lists effectively.
- [Custom Fields](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/custom-fields.md): Collect the data that matters most to you. Custom fields let you add your own data points to fan profiles — t-shirt sizes, birthdays, favorite songs, and anything else you need.
- [VIP Tiers & Engagement](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/vip-tiers.md): Fanaura's VIP tier system lets you identify, reward, and engage your most dedicated fans. Learn how engagement scores, tokens, and tiers work together.
- [Adding & Importing Fans](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/importing.md): Learn every way to add fans to your Fanaura database — manual entry, CSV import, smart link collection, and more.
- [SMS & Email Opt-In](https://help.fanaura.com/fans/opt-in.md): Consent is not just a legal requirement — it is good practice. Learn how Fanaura handles SMS and email opt-in, opt-out, and compliance so you can market with confidence.
- [Launches Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/launches/index.md): Learn how Launches organize your marketing campaigns around music releases, tours, and merch drops — all in one place.
- [Creating a Launch](https://help.fanaura.com/launches/creating-a-launch.md): Step-by-step guide to creating a new launch for your music release, tour, or merch drop in Fanaura.
- [Cycle Stages](https://help.fanaura.com/launches/cycle-stages.md): Understand the three cycle stages for every launch type — Pre-Release, Release, and Post-Release — and how they shape your marketing automation.
- [Multi-Asset Campaigns](https://help.fanaura.com/launches/campaigns.md): Learn how to bundle multiple assets — music, tours, and merch — into a single coordinated launch campaign.
- [Launch Progress & Timeline](https://help.fanaura.com/launches/progress.md): Understand how Fanaura tracks your launch progress, calculates completion percentage, and displays milestone markers.
- [Active Triggers Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/launches/active-triggers.md): Get a bird's-eye view of every active trigger across all your launches and manage them from one central dashboard.
- [Trigger Conflicts](https://help.fanaura.com/launches/trigger-conflicts.md): Learn what trigger conflicts are, how to spot them, and how to resolve them so fans never receive duplicate messages.
- [Flow Builder Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/index.md): Learn how the visual Flow Builder works — the drag-and-drop automation canvas that powers every fan engagement workflow in Fanaura.
- [Creating a Flow](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/creating-a-flow.md): Step-by-step guide to creating your first automation flow in the Fanaura Flow Builder.
- [Triggers](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/triggers.md): A complete reference of all 25+ trigger types available in the Fanaura Flow Builder, from presave events to Instagram DM keywords.
- [Actions](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/actions.md): A complete guide to every action type in the Fanaura Flow Builder — from sending emails and SMS to AI-powered multi-channel messaging.
- [Send Email Action](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/send-email.md): Everything you need to know about composing, designing, and sending emails from the Fanaura Flow Builder.
- [Send SMS Action](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/send-sms.md): Everything you need to know about sending text messages to fans from the Fanaura Flow Builder, including compliance, throughput, and best practices.
- [Send Instagram DM Action](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/send-instagram-dm.md): Learn how to send Instagram direct messages from your automation flows, including the 24-hour messaging window and comment-to-DM workflows.
- [Delays](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/delays.md): Learn how to use time delays, fan-action delays, and date-based delays to control the timing and pacing of your automation flows.
- [Conditions (Branching Logic)](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/conditions.md): Learn how to use conditions to create Yes/No branches in your flows, enabling personalized fan experiences based on behavior and attributes.
- [Merge Tags](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/merge-tags.md): A complete reference of all 80+ merge tags available in Fanaura for personalizing emails, SMS, and Instagram DMs with dynamic fan and artist data.
- [Flow Settings](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/settings.md): Configure enrollment rules, timezone settings, time windows, and communication defaults for your automation flows.
- [Enrollment History](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/enrollment.md): Track every fan who enters your flows — see who is active, who has completed, and where each fan is in their journey.
- [Execution Logs](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/execution-logs.md): Debug your automation flows with detailed logs of every action executed for every fan, including success/failure status and error messages.
- [Toggling Flows On and Off](https://help.fanaura.com/flow-builder/toggling.md): Learn how to activate and deactivate your automation flows, what happens to enrolled fans, and best practices for managing flow states.
- [Blasts Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/blasts/index.md): Send one-time broadcast messages to your fans via email or SMS. Learn about the Blasts page, campaign types, and when to use blasts vs automated flows.
- [Sending an Email Blast](https://help.fanaura.com/blasts/email.md): Step-by-step guide to creating and sending beautiful email blasts to your fans, including audience selection, email design, scheduling, and template management.
- [Sending an SMS Blast](https://help.fanaura.com/blasts/sms.md): Step-by-step guide to sending SMS text message blasts to opted-in fans, including audience targeting, message composition, throughput details, and compliance.
- [Blast Analytics](https://help.fanaura.com/blasts/analytics.md): Understanding your email and SMS blast performance metrics, per-recipient tracking, campaign history, and how to compare campaigns.
- [Aura Chat Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/ai/index.md): Meet Aura Chat, the agentic system that queries your real fan data, builds campaigns, creates flows, and executes work across Fanaura.
- [Aura Chat on iOS](https://help.fanaura.com/ai/mobile.md): How Aura Chat works inside the Fanaura iPhone app.
- [What You Can Ask Aura Chat](https://help.fanaura.com/ai/asking-questions.md): A guide to the types of questions and actions you can perform with Aura Chat, including fan queries, music analytics, tour management, and campaign insights.
- [Aura Chat Tour Builder](https://help.fanaura.com/ai/tour-builder.md): Paste your entire tour routing into Aura Chat and watch it build your complete tour in seconds. Supports Excel, CSV, freeform text, and more.
- [Aura Chat Music Ingestion](https://help.fanaura.com/ai/music-ingestion.md): Create music releases through Aura Chat's interactive card-based wizard. Auto-fill metadata from ISRC codes, set presave dates, and publish with one click.
- [Aura Chat Tips and Best Practices](https://help.fanaura.com/ai/tips.md): Get the most out of Aura Chat with tips on asking better questions, using voice mode, understanding thinking displays, and knowing its limits.
- [Smart Links Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/smart-links/index.md): Learn about Fanaura's smart links -- beautiful, data-collecting landing pages for your music, merch, tours, and more. Every fan interaction captures valuable data.
- [Pre-Save Pages](https://help.fanaura.com/smart-links/presave.md): How Fanaura pre-save smart links work. What fans see, native notification pre-save, data collection, and the fan experience from click to release day.
- [Stream Pages](https://help.fanaura.com/smart-links/stream.md): How Fanaura's streaming link pages work -- automatic conversion from presave, platform routing, click tracking, SEO optimization, and the fan experience.
- [Artist Hub Pages](https://help.fanaura.com/smart-links/artist-hub.md): Your public artist landing page on Fanaura -- one link for everything. Music, merch, tours, extras, and fan authentication all in one beautiful, customizable page.
- [Sharing & Embedding](https://help.fanaura.com/smart-links/sharing.md): How to share your smart links, generate social media previews, embed tour date widgets, create QR codes, and use UTM tracking for campaign attribution.
- [Integrations Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/integrations/index.md): Connect Fanaura with third-party services to unlock SMS, Instagram DMs, native notification pre-saves, and more.
- [Spotify Integration](https://help.fanaura.com/integrations/spotify.md): Fanaura uses the Spotify Search API for artist onboarding and metadata lookup. Pre-saves use Fanaura's native notification system — no Spotify OAuth required.
- [Apple Music Integration](https://help.fanaura.com/integrations/apple-music.md): Apple Music as a platform option for native notification pre-save. Fans select Apple Music and receive a release-day link.
- [Instagram Integration](https://help.fanaura.com/integrations/instagram.md): Connect your Instagram Professional account to Fanaura for automated DMs, comment-to-DM triggers, story responses, and keyword-based flow automation.
- [SMS Integration](https://help.fanaura.com/integrations/sms.md): Provision a dedicated phone number for 2-way SMS conversations, campaign blasts, and automated fan messaging.
- [MasterTour Integration](https://help.fanaura.com/integrations/mastertour.md): Connect your MasterTour account to sync tour dates, venue data, and booking information into Fanaura (coming soon).
- [Streaming Platforms](https://help.fanaura.com/integrations/streaming-platforms.md): All 9+ streaming platforms supported for presaves and smart links, including how platform detection works and how to manage streaming links for your releases.
- [Settings Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/index.md): Navigate the Settings area to customize your Fanaura account, manage your team, configure integrations, and control how your artist workspace operates.
- [Profile Settings](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/profile.md): Configure your artist identity, public display name, URL slug, bio, timezone, and default sender information in Fanaura.
- [Team Management](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/team.md): Invite team members, assign roles with granular permissions, and manage access to your Fanaura artist workspace.
- [Billing & Subscription](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/billing.md): Manage your Fanaura subscription, payment method, messaging usage, upgrades, and cancellations.
- [Notification Settings](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/notifications.md): Control which alerts you receive from Fanaura, choose your notification channels, and customize how you stay informed about fan activity and campaigns.
- [Security Settings](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/security.md): Manage your password, monitor active sessions, review login history, and keep your Fanaura account secure.
- [Activity Logs](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/logs.md): Review a complete audit trail of every action taken in your Fanaura account, from fan signups to campaign sends to team member activity.
- [Fan Rewards Configuration](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/fan-rewards.md): Set up your VIP loyalty system with customizable token values, tier thresholds, reward presets, and fan perks that keep your audience engaged.
- [Communication Defaults](https://help.fanaura.com/settings/communication.md): Configure your default sender name, email address, and SMS number used across blasts, flows, and all outbound fan communications.
- [Pricing Overview](https://help.fanaura.com/pricing/index.md): Fanaura Artist Basic and Artist Pro plans. Automation flows, fan ownership, release pages, and label-level marketing power for indie artists.
- [Plan Features Breakdown](https://help.fanaura.com/pricing/features.md): Capability breakdown for Artist Basic and Artist Pro, plus Enterprise for labels and agencies.
- [Messaging & Usage](https://help.fanaura.com/pricing/usage.md): How email and SMS billing works on Fanaura — starter credits, at-cost rates, usage tracking, and examples for large fanbases.
- [Glossary](https://help.fanaura.com/reference/glossary.md): A comprehensive glossary of every term, concept, and abbreviation used across the Fanaura platform.
- [Keyboard Shortcuts](https://help.fanaura.com/reference/shortcuts.md): Keyboard shortcuts available in the Fanaura interface for faster navigation and common actions.
- [Supported Platforms](https://help.fanaura.com/reference/platforms.md): A complete list of every third-party platform, service, and technology that Fanaura integrates with or supports.
- [Data & Privacy](https://help.fanaura.com/reference/privacy.md): How Fanaura handles fan data, ensures GDPR and CCPA compliance, manages consent, and protects sensitive information.
- [Troubleshooting](https://help.fanaura.com/reference/troubleshooting.md): Solutions for the most common issues you might encounter while using Fanaura, from fans not appearing to flows not triggering.
- [Contact & Support](https://help.fanaura.com/reference/support.md): How to get help with Fanaura, from Aura Chat in the app to email support, feature requests, and bug reports.
- [Fanaura on iPhone](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/index.md): What the Fanaura iPhone app does and how to read the rest of this guide.
- [Getting started on iPhone](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/getting-started.md): Sign in, onboarding, membership, and what happens before you reach the main tabs.
- [Journeys tab](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/journeys.md): The journey library, stats, search, and actions on each journey card.
- [Journey editor](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/journey-editor.md): Every stage in the capture journey builder, from link URL to publish.
- [Audience tab](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/audience.md): Contact list, overview stats, filters, and contact profiles on iPhone.
- [Blast tab](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/blast.md): One-time email, text, WhatsApp, and Instagram guidance from the Blast tab.
- [Settings tab](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/settings.md): Profile card, connections, account controls, and sheets on iPhone.
- [Aura Chat on iPhone](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/aura-chat.md): The dock chat control, tools, and confirmations in the mobile assistant.
- [Links and public page](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/links.md): Smart links list, copy, share, and open actions from the Links screen.
- [Email sender](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/email-sender.md): Branded address, custom senders, DNS records, and blast routing on iPhone.
- [Texting number](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/texting-number.md): Search, purchase, verification, and carrier approval for SMS on iPhone.
- [Account and privacy](https://help.fanaura.com/ios/account-privacy.md): Privacy policy, terms, and account deletion on iPhone.
- [Fanaura MCP Server](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/index.md): Run Instagram keyword automation and read your audience from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol.
- [Quickstart](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/quickstart.md): Connect Fanaura to your assistant and publish your first Instagram keyword in about two minutes.
- [How it works](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/how-it-works.md): Where your data lives, how a request travels from your assistant to Fanaura, and why a new chat sometimes matters.
- [Connect Claude](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/connect/claude.md): Add Fanaura to Claude on the web, Claude Desktop, and Claude on iPhone.
- [Connect ChatGPT](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/connect/chatgpt.md): Use the Fanaura app inside ChatGPT to launch Instagram keywords and read your audience.
- [Developer tools](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/connect/developer-tools.md): Connect Fanaura to Cursor, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Codex, and any other MCP client.
- [Launch a keyword in one message](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/guides/launch-a-keyword.md): Give your assistant a link and a keyword. Fanaura builds the journey, fills in every setting, and publishes it in one call.
- [Build a journey step by step](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/guides/build-step-by-step.md): Start a draft, set the link, keyword, replies, and capture one at a time, check everything, and then publish.
- [Edit a live journey](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/guides/edit-a-live-journey.md): Change the keyword, link, replies, or capture on a published journey. The live version updates when the draft is published again.
- [Understand your audience](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/guides/understand-your-audience.md): Ask who came in, what one person shared, and how your whole audience is growing. Every answer comes from your live Fanaura contacts.
- [Prompt library](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/guides/prompt-library.md): Copy-ready requests for launching keywords, editing journeys, and reading your audience, written for every kind of creator and business.
- [Tool reference](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/tools/index.md): Every tool the Fanaura MCP server exposes: what it does, what it needs, what it returns, and what it changes.
- [Journey tools](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/tools/journeys.md): Parameters and responses for the 12 tools that create, edit, check, publish, and list journeys.
- [Contact tools](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/tools/contacts.md): Parameters, responses, fields, and event types for the 6 read-only tools that describe your audience.
- [Setup tools](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/tools/setup.md): Check which channels are connected and get a secure link to connect Instagram from chat.
- [Authentication](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/authentication.md): How assistants sign in to Fanaura with OAuth 2.1, PKCE, and dynamic client registration, and how to switch or revoke access.
- [Data and privacy](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/data-and-privacy.md): What the Fanaura MCP server shares with an assistant, what it never returns, and how each contact detail is labeled.
- [Errors and limits](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/errors-and-limits.md): Rate limits, HTTP errors, journey blockers, and field errors returned by the Fanaura MCP server.
- [Troubleshooting](https://help.fanaura.com/mcp-server/troubleshooting.md): Fixes for the most common problems when connecting Fanaura to Claude, ChatGPT, and developer tools.

## Optional

- [App](https://app.fanaura.com)
- [Website](https://fanaura.com)


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