Guides

The eight ideas the rest of ShortZen is built from: links, slugs, domains, workspaces, plans, quotas, clicks, and entitlements.

Every field on the link form, what it does, and how to change a link after you have already shared it.

Folders, tags, search, and bulk actions: how to keep a list of thousands of links usable.

Passwords, expiry dates, go-live times, click caps, and fallback URLs: the Advanced options explained.

Tag your links so your own analytics tool can tell your channels apart, and save the combinations you use often.

Upload a CSV to create many links at once, and what to check before you do.

Move your existing links from Bitly, Dub, Rebrandly, or Short.io and keep every published address working.

Every link has a QR code. How to customise it, which format to download, and how scans are counted.

Serve your links from a domain you own, so they carry your brand instead of ours.

Build a small public page that holds a list of links behind the one address a social profile gives you.

Send one link to different destinations by device, country, time of day, or an A/B split.

What every number on the Analytics page means, how far back the data goes, and what is deliberately not counted.

Get your analytics out as CSV, or request a full copy of everything in your account.

See which utm_source, utm_medium, and utm_campaign values arrived on the short URL itself: click-time UTM, not the tags saved on the link.

Opt in to a first-party visitor cookie so Analytics can tell new visitors from returning ones, without replacing the approximate unique-visitor count.

Record a conversion pixel or API event against a hashed visitor, attribute it last-click, and read conversions and CVR on Analytics.

How shared ownership works in ShortZen, what each role can do, and who pays for what.

Add people to your workspace, set what they can do, and remove them cleanly when they move on.

A record of who changed what in your workspace, plus what visitors reported about your content. Use it for compliance, security reviews, and answering "when did this change?"

Create a key, call the API, and understand scopes, rate limits, and idempotency.

Have ShortZen call your endpoint when a link is created or clicked, and verify the calls are genuinely from us.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or another assistant, check it works, and teach it your preferences.

What each plan includes, how to read a limit, and what happens when you reach one.

Symptoms, likely causes, and fixes for the problems people actually hit.

Short answers to the questions that come up most often.

Every term ShortZen uses, defined once.