How it works

You pick your handle when you sign up, and it becomes your address. Add links in the order you want them read; rename one by clicking its title, and move it with the arrows. A new link appears on your page immediately — there is nothing to publish.

Paste a URL and leave the title blank, and we read the page itself for its name, so adding a link is usually one field. If a title and its destination disagree — a link called “Newsletter” pointing at a shop — the dashboard says so. It is a note, not a block: linking somewhere unexpected is often deliberate.

The free plan holds three links, and your handle is fixed once chosen. Paid plans lift the first and allow up to three changes of the second — every change strands links people already have, which is why it is not unlimited.

Now is the line under your name — “Open for commissions”, “Live on YouTube”, “In Goa till Sunday”. Pick a preset or write your own, add an emoji, and choose how long it lasts; it always runs out, so your page is never out of date. Add where you are and a button (Watch, Book, Shop) and the page shows both; every tap on the button is counted.

Visitors can react with 🔥 ❤️ 👏 🙌 — once each, counted without knowing who. Schedule the next status ahead (“On stage at 9”) and it switches on by itself at its time. Switch on Recently and your last three statuses show as a small trail underneath, for anyone catching up.

A moment is a drop, a sale or a gig with a start and an end: it counts down, opens its button when it goes live, can be marked sold out, thanks everyone after, then steps aside. Every Now and moment has a story card sized for Instagram.

A status lasts up to 30 days and can be scheduled up to 30 days ahead, five at a time.

A page starts as its links. Add sections and it becomes something worth landing on: an About in your own words, a Projects list of things you have made, and a contact form people can write through.

A Latest section pulls in what you publish elsewhere. Paste a YouTube channel, a Substack, a blog or a podcast — the address you already have, not a feed address you have to go and find — and the page fills itself and keeps filling. It is checked every half hour and rendered from what was last read, so a slow or broken feed can never make your page slow or broken.

Your links are one of those sections, so their place in the order is a choice. Move an introduction above them, or leave it below — the arrows on each row are the whole interface.

The contact form is the one worth explaining. Your email address is never on the page: messages arrive in your Inbox here, tagged with the campaign that brought the person, so you can see which post brings people who actually write. Replies go from your own mail client, from your own address. We are not in the middle of that conversation.

The free plan holds one section — enough to say who you are. Projects and the contact form are on paid plans. Text is rendered as text, with line breaks kept and nothing else formatted. Instagram, TikTok and X publish no feed, so they cannot be pulled in this way; link to them as links.

A Places section puts anywhere people should find you on the page: a studio, a shop, tonight's gig, a pickup point. Each place is a name and an address or a pin — paste a Google or Apple Maps link, or press Use my location. Add opening hours and the page says “Open · closes 18:00” in the place's own time zone; add dates and it shows them, then takes itself down when they are over. Visitors get Directions in one tap, and a map that loads only if they ask for it.

If a place is also somebody's home, mark it Area only. The street address never reaches the page and the pin is blurred to about a kilometre before it leaves our server — it is not hidden in the browser, where anybody could read it back.

A Shipping section says where you send things — to a list of countries, or everywhere except some — and every visitor sees the answer for their own country. And any link can be shown only in some countries, so an India store and a US store each reach the people who can buy from them.

Where somebody is comes from their rough location at the edge of our network. It decides what to show and puts the nearest place first; it is never stored. Analytics counts how many people asked for directions to each place — counts only, never who.

If we cannot tell where a visitor is, they see every link and the full shipping list rather than a guess.

Dashboard → Events makes an invitation with its own address, www.showfinch.com/you/e/its-name: a photo or a short looping clip, your message, when and where, and a countdown. Guests can add it to Google, Apple or Outlook in a tap and get Directions on the day. While it is on — or coming up within a month — it takes over the top of your page; three days after, it shows your thank-you and steps aside. See a sample.

Choose how people get in. Anyone with the link is an invitation and nothing more. Guests request a pass asks each person to sign in, answer a question of yours if you set one, and say how many they are bringing; you approve, waitlist or decline from the event's Guests list, and they hear back in their notifications. Set a number of places and requests beyond it join a waitlist on their own. Tick Exact address for guests only and everyone else sees just the area.

An approved guest's pass lives in their Passes: a QR code that changes every 30 seconds, made on their own phone, so it works without signal and a screenshot of it stops working within two minutes. At the door, open Door on any phone and point it at each pass — green, let them in; amber, that pass is already in; red, not a way in. Add friends as door staff by username. The scanner keeps the guest list on the phone, so a basement with no signal still works, and it catches up when the signal returns.

Or sell tickets: add kinds of ticket — Early bird, General, a free guest list — each with a price, how many, and how many one person may buy. A buyer's places are held for ten minutes while they pay, so the last ticket is never sold twice; the pass arrives the moment the payment does. Razorpay splits each payment as it is taken — your share straight to your payout account, our fee kept — and the event's Sales panel shows what was taken, our fee, and what you receive. Choose whether guests can hand tickets back for a refund (until a week or a day before); if you cancel, everyone is refunded in full, automatically.

Paid tickets need payouts set up in Settings; free tickets don't. The guest list is yours: nobody else sees who came, and door staff see names at the door and nothing else.

Switch the Billboard on and one card appears below your page's own sections: somebody else's event or live moment, chosen for where each visitor is, and labelled “Promoted on Showfinch”. Every time a real person sees it — once per person per day, only once it has actually been on their screen — you earn a credit, up to 100 a day. You start with 30.

Spend credits to put your own event or moment on other people's pages: pick a budget and, for an event, a distance from the venue — 10 to 250 km, or anywhere in your country. It stops by itself when the budget is spent or the event is over. Visitors can report a card; three reports pause it.

Discover at www.showfinch.com/discover lists events whose hosts ticked “List on Discover”, happening now first, then nearest.

Credits can't be bought or cashed out. Views from bots, repeat visits and anything we can't verify earn nothing.

A view is one person on one day, not one page load: somebody who opens your page five times is one interested person, and counting it five times would flatter you into a bad decision. Crawlers are filtered out — every link preview from WhatsApp, Slack or a search engine fetches your page, and none of them are readers.

The click-through rate is the number that matters and the reason the other two are there. Traffic sources and countries show where those people came from. Nothing here is a sample, an estimate or a projection.

We can only see what happens on your page. If somebody scrolls past your post and never taps, no analytics product on earth can show you that — ours included, and we would rather say so than invent a number for it.

Add ?src= and a name to your link — www.showfinch.com/you?src=spring — and every visit that arrives through it is filed under “spring”. Use a different tag per story, video or newsletter and the dashboard shows how many people each one actually sent, side by side.

Two posts on the same platform rarely perform alike, and the platform’s own numbers cannot tell you which of them sent someone who clicked. This can.

A campaign counts people who followed the link. It cannot count the ones who saw the post and scrolled on — that number lives inside the platform, and nobody outside it has it.

Make a short link to anywhere — your page or somewhere else entirely — and get www.showfinch.com/s/spring. Choose the ending yourself or let us generate one that is easy to read aloud and to type from memory: no zeros, ones, capital I or lowercase l.

Clicks and distinct people are both counted, and a short link can carry the same campaign tag as a page link, so a poster and an Instagram story tagged “spring” add up in one place instead of two.

A theme is a complete set of colours rather than a palette to assemble, because pages built one colour at a time end up unreadable. Hover any of them and the preview beside the grid shows your page — your name, your avatar, your links — in that theme.

Paid plans add two sets. Lit themes are painted on light rather than a flat colour; Signature themes, on Pro, are drawn on a pattern — a drafting grid, a halftone screen, gold rules. You can also put your own background behind everything: an image, or a short looping video.

Every page offers Save to contacts, which hands over a vCard — the format every address book on earth already reads. It carries your name, your handle, your bio and every link you publish, so somebody who saves it after meeting you has the whole set rather than one link back to where they were standing.

The QR code in your dashboard is the other half: printed on a card, a poster or the back of a menu, and tagged so each place you put it is counted separately. An NFC tag needs nothing built at all — it holds your page's address, and the card is what the address leads to.

Add Experience, Education and Skills sections and your page gets a second address that reads them as a resume — newest first, current roles at the top, dates in the order a recruiter expects rather than the order your page happens to be arranged in.

It is built from the same sections as your page, not a separate copy, so the two cannot end up disagreeing about where you work. Printing is your browser's: the page has a real print stylesheet, so Save as PDF produces a clean black-on-white document with no navigation on it and no job split across two sheets.

Dates are years or months — 2024 or 2024-06 — because a resume has no days in it. Leave an end date blank for something you are still doing. The link to your resume only appears once there is something in it.

Put photos, videos, files and links in it. Anyone signed in can walk in and see the shape of what is inside — titles and types, arranged like a shelf — but nothing opens unless they are a member. That is enforced on our side: no address is ever generated for something a visitor may not open, so there is nothing to find in a browser’s network tab.

You choose per item. Anything can be marked open to everyone — a trailer beside the film, a sample beside the pack — while the rest stays shut. And you decide who gets in: invite by email, or put a price on the door.

Room pages carry a banner and a picture of their own, the contents arrange themselves in rows you can reorder, and the dashboard shows who has been in, how many are following and how many are members.

Paid plans only. Standard gives 5 GB and keeps uploads six months; Pro gives 15 GB and keeps them permanently. Adult content is not allowed, and everyone involved must be 18 or over.

Pick a price and the room takes members on its own. Payment goes through Razorpay; membership runs for the period bought and then ends unless it is renewed. Inviting people for nothing still works exactly as before, and changing or removing a price never affects anybody already inside.

What you may charge starts at ₹50 and rises as your room proves itself — up to ₹500, which is the most any room may charge here. That is deliberate, and the whole of it is written down in the rules for paid rooms: how the limit moves, what happens when somebody reports a room, how anonymous reviews work, and what we will not do.

Because somebody is handing money to a stranger, a new room starts at the lowest limit however established its owner is elsewhere. There is no way to buy a higher one.