3.1. Creating and configuring the database

If you already have an empty database, a database username and password, you can skip the next steps.

1. Create a new MySQL database.
2. Create a new MySQL username and password.
3. Assign full privileges to your database username.

3.2. Uploading the files

Upload what's inside the Script folder on the web root folder of your domain. This folder is generally called public_html, html, or example.com, but depending on your server's configuration, it might be named differently.

3.3. Configuring the files

Set the access permissions (CHMOD) to 775 to the following files and folders:

3.4. Changing the public directory Important

Configure your web server's document / web root to point to the public directory of the software. For example, if you've uploaded the software in example.com folder, your web directory should be changed to example.com/public folder.

3.5. Finishing the installation

1. Go to https://example.com/install and follow the installation wizard.
2. Once you've installed the software, login into your account, and go to https://example.com/admin.
3. You'll be asked to activate your License Key. See how to retrieve your license key.

3.6. Setting up the cron jobs

The software requires several cron jobs to be set up in order to automate some of its functions, such as sending out periodic emails, checking the status of the accounts, as well as additional database clean-ups.

1. Go to Admin Settings Cron job.
2. Copy the check command and set up a daily cron job for it.
3. Copy the clean command and set up a daily cron job for it.
4. Copy the email command and set up a monthly cron job for it.

4.1. Payment system

The Payment system relies on Stripe's API and requires an Extended license to be enabled.

1. Login into your Stripe account.
2. From the sidebar, go to the Developers section of the Stripe dashboard and click on API Keys.
3. Copy the Publishable key and Secret key in Admin Settings Payment.

4. From the sidebar, go to the Developers section of the Stripe dashboard and click on Webhooks.
5. Click on Add a new endpoint.
6. On the Endpoint URL field paste your URL, this can be found on Admin Settings Payment.
7. On the Version field, select the latest version.
8. On the Events to send field, click on receive all events, and click the Add endpoint button.
9. Copy the Signing key in Admin Settings Payment.

10. You can now copy your keys in Admin Settings Payment.

4.2. Plans

To create new Plans, the Payment system needs to be enabled.

By default, the software comes with a default free plan, which is available to everyone. The default plan cannot be deleted, however the pageviews can be limited.

4.3. Tax rates

1. Login into your Stripe account.
2. From the sidebar, go to the Products and then click on Tax rates.
3. Add a new tax rate.¹

1. When adding a new tax rate, if no Region is specified, the tax rate will apply to everyone. Add a ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code to the Region field if you wish to apply taxes per country.

4.4. Coupons

1. Login into your Stripe account.
2. From the sidebar, go to the Products and then click on Coupons.
3. Create a new new coupon.
4. Copy the coupon ID and add it to Coupons field in Admin Plans Edit.

4.5. Emails

1. Go to Admin Settings Email.
2. Change the Driver field value to SMTP.
3. Fill in the rest of the fields with your SMTP credentials.

4.6. Captcha

The Captcha system relies on Google reCAPTCHA's API.

1. Login into your Google reCAPTCHA account.
2. Create a new reCAPTCHA v2 Invisible Badge.
3. Fill all the other fields with the requested information.
4. Copy the Site key and the Secret key in Admin Settings Captcha.