How to Create a Skara Account?

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To get started with Skara and launch your video business online, you will need to create an account and finish a few small steps that take less than a minute. So, let's get started.

Before you create an account, you need to understand:

• Creating an account on Skara and creating your business are two separate steps.
• You can create an account on Skara using your email (ideally the email you would want to associate with your business).
• Creating a business happens after you successfully create a Skara account with an email.
• You can create multiple businesses within a single Skara account and do not have to create separate Skara accounts if you want to operate multiple video businesses.

Now that we are clear on these points, let's get started on creating a Skara account.

How to create a Skara account:

• Step 1: Once you visit www.skara.app/register you will have to enter your email address
• You will also have to go through our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We urge you to read them through and then once you accept the terms, mark your acceptance by ticking on the button and then click Next
• Step 2: Enter the OTP sent to the email address you entered to verify the email and click on Submit
• In case you do not see the OTP in your email inbox:
• a. Check your email spam folder
• b. Check if you have entered the correct email
• c. Try to get a fresh one by clicking on Resend OTP once the countdown ends
• If you still do not receive an OTP, click on Get Help and our teammate will help you out.
• In case you receive the OTP but run out of time and the countdown ends:
• a. Resend a fresh OTP by clicking on the Resend OTP button
• In case you entered the wrong email address,
• a. Go back to the previous screen by clicking on the <- Back button on your browser and
• b. Enter the correct email address and click on Next
• Step 3: Now that your email is verified, create a Password which you will use to login to your Skara account
  1. Your password must have at least 8 characters containing combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters
  2. To ensure that you have entered the password you actually want, reenter it in the next box and then click on Create Password

Congratulations! You have successfully created your Skara account.

Now you can login and create your first video business by clicking on the 'Login and create business button'

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Setting up your Video Business on Skara

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Once you have created a Skara account by registering your email address, you are all set to setup any number of video businesses you want. This is a step-by-step guide on how to setup your first video business. Once you understand this, creating subsequent businesses will be super simple. This is a quick step which will take less than a minute.

Logging in:

• Step 1To login you must enter the email address you registered while creating your Skara account.So, once you are at www.skara.app/login enter your email and the password for your Skara accountIn case you wish to view the password you typed, click on the 'eye' icon on the right-side of the box.In case you do not remember the password, click on Forgot Password to reset your password.
• Click on Next

Creating your first video business

• You will land on a page where you can create your video business.
• Each of the businesses you create will operate like separate entities with their own business model, video types, audience and community. You will understand more once we create and start setting up your business in the later steps.
• For now, click on the create button to get started
• Give your business a name. This is an important step as the name you give cannot be changed later. This is the name your audience will know your business with. This is the name people will associate with your business. So, put some thought into it and enter it
• Choose a Business Niche. This is an irreversible step and you must choose the right niche for your business. Niche is the category/industry/type of videos you would publish on your video business website and app. Click on the dropdown button and choose the category that fits your video business the best.
• For now, we have

1. Corporates: Suitable for corporate organisations intending to publish internal/external training videos
2. Education: Suitable for those planning to publish educational videos organised in proper courses
3. Faith and Spirituality: Suitable for organisations seeking to publish faith-based content
4. Fitness: Suitable for trainers and coaches intending to publish training videos
5. Movies and Series: Suitable for businesses or individuals in the entertainment industry planning to publish movies and Series categorised as Seasons and Episodes
6. Music and Podcast: Suitable for individuals and organisations publishing video songs or podcasts
7. Other: Suitable for any other organisation or individuals whose content type is not mentioned in the above categories

• Choosing the right niche is the key to getting the right features on your business dashboard and your launched website and app. Each category has different requirements and the dashboard/launched website and app for each of these categories differ from each other because of these requirements.

Once you give your business name and select the business niche from the dropdown menu, click on Create and your Skara business will be created.

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Choosing a Plan

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Once you have successfully created a business on Skara, the next step is to choose a plan to unlock unlimited possibilities for your branded video streaming site.

All our plans come with a free-trial during which you can access the full functionalities of Skara and get a hold of the things you can achieve on Skara.

To start with a plan just select the tier you want to start with by clicking on the ‘Start Free Trial’ button and you are all set to explore your business dashboard.

Our plans are designed keeping in mind your various needs and you can scale as you wish at any time you want.

We have three plans with assigned pricing and one for enterprise and large scale requirements.

1. KickstartThis plan is suitable for anyone trying out if a standalone video streaming site is something that they can operate. It is typically designed keeping in mind with businesses or individuals starting out on their video streaming business.
2. GrowthThis plan is for organisations/businesses or individuals who already have a set of subscribers on other platforms or at least potential ones to stream to. With a mid-size video storage upper limit, this plan is perfect for anyone who wants to grow out of free platforms and finally monetize their loyal audience.
3. MotionThis plan is perfect for organisation/businesses/individuals with a massive subscriber/viewer base. It is ideal for those with a huge content collection and for whom it makes sense to go for a higher platform fee but lower per subscriber fee.

Understanding the pricing plan

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The Skara pricing plan has two components:

1. Platform Fee
2. Per Subscriber Fee

Platform Fee

Each plan has a flat fee which is payable monthly. This fee goes toward the hosting and storage charges. Each of the plan has different storage hours. This means, if you opt for Kickstart, you will get 15 hours worth of storage where you can upload 15 videos of 1 hour each or 30 videos of 30 minutes each and so on. On the other hand, Growth and Motion plans come with 60 and 150 hours of storage respectively. To know more about how storage works, click here:

Variable Per Subscriber Fee

Unlike platforms that charge a percentage from your transactions, Skara has a flat per-subscriber fee. This means, that regardless of what you charge your subscribers, you will only have to pay a flat price to Skara as the per subscriber fee.

Example: If you are on the Motion plan and you are charging per subscriber INR 300/mo, you only pay us INR 48/mo per subscriber, while keeping the rest (INR 252/mo/subscriber).

Imagine if this happened based on percentage and looking at the industry average of 25% per transaction, you would have had to pay INR 75+other charges for every INR 300 transaction, taking home something around INR200 for every subscriber

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Understanding your Business Dashboard Home

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When you land on your business dashboard for the first time, you will be prompted to complete a few steps to finish setting up your business. Each of these steps will ensure your streaming website is filled with the right branding assets, support details and legal documents before you launch the website and the mobile app online.

Once you complete these steps, this prompt will disappear.

However, you can always edit these information later if required.

Business Overview

Storage

This shows the total, available and occupied storage available in the plan you opted. This is to give you an idea of your storage consumption so that if required, you can plan ahead to move to a higher plan.

Business figures

This section of your dashboard lets you see the numbers vital for your business. Those are:

1. Gross Transaction: This is the sum of all transactions happening between you and your subscribers on the payment partner you integrate with your Skara business.
2. Total Subscribers: This is the total subscriber count based on signups on the website and mobile app you launch using Skara.
3. Total Videos: This is the total number of video files uploaded on your business.
4. Community Posts: This is the total number of posts on your community forum.

These figures can also be viewed in details in their dedicated sections within the dashboard. You will learn more about them later.

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