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The studio
The creator studio is where you build your guides, put them on sale and follow what they earn. Every studio page has the same frame: the sidebar with the studio's pages on the left, the page itself beside it, and inside a guide, that guide's own sections in the sidebar and the guide bar at the foot of the page.
The studio is for creators only. Signed out, it sends you to sign in. Signed in with an account that has no creator workspace, or one that is suspended, it shows a notice instead of the studio (see Notices).
The sidebar
The sidebar starts with the Sceniq logo and Creator studio. Under it are the studio's pages. The one you are on is highlighted.
| Page | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Onboarding | Every step from a new account to a guide on sale, in four parts. A ring beside it fills as steps get done; a tick takes its place once all are done. Until your first guide is live, the studio opens here. See Onboarding. |
| Your Guides | Your guides and New guide. Once your first guide is live, the studio opens here. |
| Sales | Purchases, refunds and revenue for your guides. See Sales. |
| Marketing | Ways to get people from your posts to your guide, each with its setup steps. See Marketing. |
| Payouts | Your balance, your withdrawals and the account they are paid to. See Payouts. |
| Statistics | Views, guide opens and sales across your published guides. It appears once one of your guides has been published, and stays when that guide is archived later. See Statistics. |
While a guide is open, its sections follow under a line, and Your Guides stays marked above them: see A guide's sections.
At the foot of the sidebar:
| Row | What it does |
|---|---|
| Profile | Your public creator profile: how you appear across your sales pages and guides. See Profile. |
| Settings | The AI agent card switch, API keys for AI agents, and two cards that open documentation in a new tab: Creator docs, these pages, and Developer docs. See Settings. |
Under them are your creator name and the email you sign in with. The icon beside the email is Sign out (hover it to see its name). It ends your session in this browser and takes you to the sign-in page.
On a narrow screen
On a phone or in a narrow window the sidebar folds away. A bar at the top holds the logo and the menu button, which screen readers announce as Open menu. It opens the sidebar as a drawer, the Creator studio menu, with the same pages, the open guide's sections, and your account with Sign out at its foot. Picking a page closes the drawer.
Your Guides
Your Guides lists every guide you have made, newest first, with its status, how many spots it has and how many buyers own it. New guide at the top right starts a new one.
The guide list
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Product | The guide's picture, its name, and under the name the path of its link: your username, then the guide's own part. |
| Status | Draft until the guide's first publish (and again after you unarchive it, until you publish it), Published while it is on sale, Archived once you take it off sale. |
| Spots | How many spots the guide has. Archived spots do not count. |
| Users | How many buyers own the guide: its paid purchases, partly refunded ones included, plus any earlier buyers Sceniq has added for it. A fully refunded purchase does not count. |
The picture is the guide's card thumbnail, the one its card shows in the store and on your profile: the one you chose as the Guide thumbnail on Name and price, or, until you choose one, the first image of the Hero on its Store page. It is small and shows the middle of the photo, as the card does. A guide with neither shows an empty frame with a dashed edge, and its name stays in line with the others. A new or changed thumbnail shows here within a moment, without a reload. The example guide has its picture too.
Archived guides leave this list and sit in their own list, Archived, below it; the columns and the row menu are the same. The heading only shows while you have an archived guide.
The whole row opens the guide. Its last column says how:
- Continue setup on a draft.
- Edit on a published or archived guide.
- Opening, with a spinner, while the guide you clicked loads.
While the guide loads, its page shows a small mountain drawing with a pin hopping on its summit, the guide's name and how many spots are loading. A guide that opens on Spots waits for its whole spot list, so the list appears complete.
Until it has been live, a guide opens on the page of its next Onboarding step; after that, on Spots. On a phone the list shows only each guide's picture, name and action.
The row menu
Every row ends in a "..." button, announced as "Actions for" and the guide's name. Clicking it never opens the guide; it opens a small menu of what you can do with that guide:
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Continue setup or Edit | Opens the guide, like clicking its row. |
| Archive | On a draft or a published guide. Asks first, in Archive this guide?, and then takes the guide off sale; see Archive. |
| Unarchive | On an archived guide. Brings it back at once, as a Draft: it goes on sale again only when you publish it, from the guide bar, which checks everything a first publish checks. People who bought it kept their access throughout. |
| Delete | On an archived guide that nobody owns, for the account owner only. Opens Delete this guide permanently?: see Delete permanently. A guide that has owners shows no Delete; one with other sales history refuses in the dialog. |
| View | On the example guide, the only action: opens it to look at. |
If an action fails, a note above the list says why.
With no guides of your own and no example guide offered, the page shows No guides yet instead of the list, with its own New guide button.
New guide
New guide opens a dialog that asks for three things. You can change all of them later on Name and price.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Guide name | The guide's name, up to 120 characters. |
| Countries | Where the guide is: one country or several, or Worldwide at the top of the list for a guide across the world. The field starts empty; typing filters the list, and the list stays open while you tick countries. The first one you pick is the guide's main country, the one its card shows. The (i) says where the guide is, and that one country works best. |
| Main language | The language you write the guide in. It starts on English. Each language wears a country flag (English the US flag) to help you find it. The most common languages come first, then the rest by name; Search languages filters the list (screen readers call it Languages). |
| Create guide | Creates the guide and opens it on Spots, the first step of Build on Onboarding. It stays grey until the guide has a name and you picked its countries or Worldwide. |
The new guide is a Draft: buyers cannot see it until you publish it. It starts with the starter properties Best time of day, Best season, Crowds and Sleeping there, which you can change or remove on Properties.
The guide's link is made from its name when you create it: your username, then the name in lower case, with dashes between the words and without accents. The dialog does not show it; the guide's Sceniq Store page does, under URL. Renaming the guide later changes its name everywhere without a publish (a live sales page can take up to 5 minutes to show it), but never its link. If one of your guides or sales pages already uses the link the name gives, Sceniq adds a number to the end of it, such as -2.
If the guide cannot be created, the reason shows under the field. Cancel closes the dialog without creating anything.
The example guide
After your own guides, the list can end with an example guide: a finished guide by another creator, marked Example in the Status column. It shows its spot count but not how many buyers own it, and its action reads View.
Open it to see how a complete guide is built. It opens on Spots. Every section opens, and the guide bar at the foot of the page says whose guide it is, but nothing can be changed. Its preview gives you the code that opens it in the app, the way buyers see it. Your own Onboarding never follows the example guide.
A guide's sections
Opening a guide adds its block to the sidebar, under a line and the guide's name: two groups. A group's row opens its main section, and only the group you are in unfolds its sections. The guide's setup steps are on the studio's Onboarding, the first row above.
| Row | What it holds |
|---|---|
| The guide | Opens Spots and unfolds the sections that build the guide. |
| Listing | Opens Name and price and unfolds the sections that sell it. |
The guide unfolds, with a count beside each of the first five:
| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Spots | The places worth the trip, with their pins, photos and details. The count is the spots buyers see, so archived spots are left out. See Spots. |
| Helpers | The car parks, lifts, places to eat and stays your spots need. They never count as spots. See Helpers. |
| Properties | The facts every spot in the guide can carry. The count leaves removed properties out. See Properties. |
| Collections | Chapters and themed groups of spots. The count covers both. See Collections and chapters. |
| Media | Every photo in the guide and its credits. See Media and photos. |
| Planning | Itineraries (day-by-day trips through the guide) and routes. Tagged Advanced: a guide sells without it, so leave it for last. See Planning and Itineraries. |
Listing unfolds:
| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Name and price | The guide's name, price, countries and card thumbnail. See Name and price. |
| Sales pages | The pages buyers see before they buy. See Sales pages. |
| Sceniq Store | How the guide appears in the public store, and the request for a listing there. See Sceniq Store. |
The section you are in is part of the page's address, so the browser's back button and a saved link bring you back to it. Switching sections does not reload the page, and a spot you are editing keeps its unsaved changes while you look at another section of the same guide. Going to another page while a spot or an itinerary holds unsaved changes asks first (Spots).
The sales-page builder, the chapter editor and the itinerary editor are pages of their own. While you are in one, the sidebar marks Sales pages, Collections or Planning, and picking a section there takes you back to the guide.
Pages save in two ways. The sales-page builder and the chapter editor save their drafts on their own shortly after you stop typing. The spot form and the itinerary editor save with the Save button in the guide bar, and boxes such as those on Name and price with their own button: until you press it, a change exists only on your screen.
The top of a guide page
A section of a guide starts with a small line that reads Your Guides, then the guide's name; Your Guides takes you back to the list. Beside that line is the guide's status:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Draft | Not published yet. Buyers cannot see or buy it. |
| Published | On sale. Buyers see the guide's content (spots, collections and chapters, routes and places, properties and photos) as it was at its last publish. The guide's name, headline, thumbnail, countries, store details and price, and your profile, change for buyers without a publish. |
| Unpublished changes | On sale, and its content changed since its last publish. Buyers keep the published content until you publish the changes. |
| Publishing... | A publish is under way. |
| Archived | Off sale. Buyers who own it keep it. |
| Example | Another creator's example guide, open to look at only. |
Under it are the section's name, with the Advanced tag on Planning, and one line on what the section holds.
The sales-page builder, the chapter editor and the itinerary editor start differently: a link leads back to the guide (in the itinerary editor it reads Planning and returns to that section), and they show no guide status.
Every guide page except the sales-page builder, which publishes its own pages, ends in the guide bar: where the guide stands, its preview and Publish. See Save, preview and publish.
Section cards
The sales-page builder, the chapter editor and a collection's editor build their forms from cards, one for each part of the page. A card's title says what it holds, with a short hint under it. On the right of the title:
- a switch shows or hides that part on the page. Switching a part off keeps what you wrote in it, ready for when you switch it back on;
- Always on stands in place of the switch on a card whose part always shows, such as a sales page's hero;
- up and down arrows, where a part's place can change, move it up or down the page.
The spot editor and the itinerary editor keep their less-used groups folded under the main form. Each fold is a row with its title, a one-line summary where there is something to sum up, and a caret; a click opens or closes it. Every fold starts closed.
Notices
The creator agreement was updated
When a new version of the creator agreement takes effect, this banner sits at the top of every studio page until you accept it. It names the version in effect and links to the agreement, which opens in a new tab. Read it before you accept.
Until then, publishing and price changes are paused: a guide's first publish, publishing a live guide's changes, publishing a sales page and setting a price are all refused. Guides that are already live keep selling, and the rest of the studio keeps working.
Accept the current agreement records your acceptance for your whole workspace, and the banner goes away. While it records, the button reads Recording acceptance. If it fails, the banner says so; press it again.
Your creator account is suspended
When Sceniq suspends a creator account, the studio shows only this notice. While the account is suspended you cannot publish or edit guides, and your sales pages, your creator profile and your guides in the store are hidden. Buyers keep the guides they bought.
Under Reason the notice gives the reason Sceniq recorded, and the date of the suspension when there is one. If you think it is a mistake, write to the support address the notice gives to appeal. Sign out signs you out.
The creator studio is invite only
An account that is not linked to a creator workspace sees this instead of the studio. Sceniq brings creators on personally: if you were invited, open the invite link from your email. Back to Sceniq goes to the Sceniq homepage, and Sign out signs you out, for example to sign in with the account you were invited with.
When something fails
A failure stays as small as it can. Each section of a guide loads on its own, so a section that fails shows its error in its own place while the sidebar, the top of the page and the other sections keep working. A guide the studio cannot open drops its block from the sidebar and its guide bar, and the page says why. A page that fails as a whole shows its error inside the studio, with the sidebar still there.
The error says what happened and offers the way out that fits:
| You see | What happened | Your way out |
|---|---|---|
| This guide is not in your studio | The address names a guide that does not exist, or one of another creator account. The screen shows which account you are signed in with. | Back to Your Guides, or Switch account, which signs you out and brings you back to this page after you sign in again. |
| We could not find this | Something the page needs does not exist, or belongs to another account. The screen shows which account you are signed in with. | Back to Your Guides or Switch account. |
| This account has no access here | You are signed in, but this account cannot open the page. The screen shows which account it is. | Back to Your Guides or Switch account. |
| You are signed out, Your session expired | Your sign-in ended. | Sign in or Sign in again returns you to this page. |
| That did not work | Something you sent was not accepted. The screen says what, where Sceniq can tell. | Go back or Reload page. |
| This cannot be done right now | The guide changed in the meantime, or its state does not allow the step. The screen says what to fix, where Sceniq can tell. | Reload page shows the latest version; or Back to Your Guides. |
| Too many tries | Too many requests in a short time. | Wait a moment, then Reload page. |
| We cannot reach Sceniq | Your connection dropped. | Check it, then Reload page. |
| Something went wrong on our side, This page stopped working | A fault at Sceniq. A small grey line under the message holds a reference; quote it when you contact support. | Reload page or Back to Your Guides. |