Help center
Getting started
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What is Urlicer?
A quick tour of what Urlicer does and the features you get.
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Create your first short link
Paste a long URL and get a short link to share.
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Use a custom alias for your link
Replace the random short code with a word or phrase you choose.
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QR codes for your links
Every short link comes with a scannable QR code.
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Start, end and limit a link
Choose when a link starts and stops working, stop it after a number of clicks, and where visitors go in between.
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Password-protect a link
Require a password before a link opens.
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Keep a link you made without an account
Links made on the homepage expire after 30 days. Keep one in a workspace to make it permanent.
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Create links in bulk
Paste a list of URLs or upload a CSV file to create up to 10,000 links at once.
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Export your links to CSV
Download a workspace's links and their click data as CSV, JSON Lines or Parquet.
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Targeting by country, device, OS or language
Send one link to different destinations depending on the visitor's country, device, operating system or browser language.
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Split traffic with A/B rotation
Send visitors to several destinations by weight to compare them.
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Organise links in folders
Group a workspace's links into folders, up to five levels deep, and filter the list, the dashboard and the export by them.
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Move your links from Bitly
Upload a Bitly export to bulk create and the columns are recognised. What moves, what cannot, and what to do about printed links.
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Broken links and the link checker
We check where your links point and tell you when a destination stops working. For site owners: what UrlicerLinkCheck is.
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Retargeting pixels
Add the people who click a link to your Meta, Google Ads, LinkedIn, TikTok or X audiences, on links on your own domain.
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Open your mobile app from a link
Send iPhone and Android visitors into your mobile app, and everyone else to the website.
API
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Using the API
The API has its own reference at /docs. Start there.
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API reference: links
The links endpoints are documented at /docs/links.
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API errors and rate limits
Errors and rate limits are documented at /docs/errors and /docs/rate-limits.
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Create and revoke API keys
Workspace owners and Admins create API keys under Developers in the app.
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Webhooks
Have Urlicer tell your own system when a link is created, edited or deleted, a domain is verified or a member joins.
Analytics
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Understand your link analytics
See how your links are performing over time.
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Traffic sources: QR vs direct
Tell QR scans apart from ordinary clicks.
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Save and reuse analytics views
Bookmark a filter + date range and jump back to it anytime.
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Share a link's stats
Give a client, a manager or a partner a read-only page with one link's clicks. They need no login and no seat.
Workspaces & members
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Create a workspace
Workspaces keep a team's links, analytics and members together.
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Invite members to your team
Add teammates by email and set what they can do.
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Roles and permissions
What each workspace role can and can't do.
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Set up a custom domain
Serve your short links from your own subdomain with a TXT and a CNAME record.
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Delete a link or a workspace
What happens when you delete a link or a whole workspace.
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Audit log
See who changed what in a workspace, on the Business plan.
Billing & plans
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Plans and limits
What each plan includes and how limits work.
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Upgrade or change your plan
Move to a bigger plan (or a smaller one) when you need to.
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Manage your subscription
Update payment details, view invoices, or cancel.
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Free trials and coupon codes
How a free trial works, when you are first charged, and where to enter a coupon code.
Support
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Contact support
Open a support ticket from the app.
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Privacy and cookies
What Urlicer records when someone clicks a link, and which cookies it sets.
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Delete your account
Delete your account and the workspaces you own from the Account page.
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What happens to your links
What a link here is and is not subject to: no ad page, no expiry unless you set one, export any time, and a domain you own.
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