New to HearNow? Want to know more about navigating your HearNow account? Below, we'll cover the entire dashboard and explain what options, settings, and features are included in your HearNow site, and how to use them.

How to use your HearNow dashboard

• There are 4 sections that contain options and settings for your page:
  • Design and Preview: Settings and features related to the appearance and functionality of your site. 
  • Music Links: Automatically-populated links to your music on digital platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, and Deezer. You can also manually add links to purchase physical product.
  • Statistics: Traffic, and visitor reports for who visited your site and what they were looking at.
  • Account Settings: Billing, and account information related to the administration of your account.

Design and Preview

• From the dashboard, click "Design and Preview". Let's break this down and explain what each feature does:
  • Color Scheme: Swap between a light theme and dark theme.
  • Blur Banner Image: Toggle on or off the auto-blur effect on your banner image.
  • Banner Image Alignment: Change the position of the banner image to one of 3 positions. 
  • Play Length: Select between full-length playback of each track, just clips, or no audio at all.
    • HearNow doesn't support custom clip times at the moment. 
  • Artist Name Under Tracks: Allow or disable the artist name appearing beneath each track.
  • Links: Add and re-arrange your social media links, your website or any fan funding links.
  • About: Here you can add a small description of the album.
  • Show Mobile Preview: Get a feel for what your site looks like on mobile by clicking this button. 
    
  • Update site with changes/Site is Up-to-Date: This is "Save." Click this button when you are done making changes. 
  • View Site: Take a look at what your fans see and make sure it is presented exactly as you want it to appear. 
    

Music Links

• Within the Music Links section, you'll find the Store Link and the Digital Partner Links.
• Store Link: This is the space where your Amazon Marketplace link may auto-populate.
  • If it hasn't, then you can add that or any other relevent link where your fans can buy your music.
  • For more detailed instructions, click here. 
• Digital Partner Links: A list of your music links at various digital partner sites, and the status of each. 
  
  
• To access the link, make sure you're clicking on the partner icon on your HearNow site page.

Statistics

• Your "Statistics" page displays useful information about how many people are visiting your site, what they're doing, and Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly reports.
  • Range filter: Set the report to Day, Week, Month, or Year.
  • Total Page Visits: How many people visited your page.
  • Total Song Plays: How many times the songs on your page were played.
  • Buy Button Clicks: How many people clicked the "Buy" button. 
  • Artist links: How many people clicked on your artist name. This section will default:
    • An artist homepage (if you added your own personal website)
    • Your physical listing (if you added a physical link) 
    • Nothing (if you have neither a homepage link nor a physical link, this will not be hyperlinked).
  • Total Social Shares: How many people shared your site or a piece of your site.
  • Social Media shares by Site: Similar to Total Social Shares, but broken down into the specific social media site they shared it to.
• This information is handy for helping to figure out what your fans are looking at, and get you more information on which social media sites you need to focus your efforts on!

Account Settings

• Here, you can manage the settings of your HearNow account. 
• Billing History: See a history of all financial transactions related to managing your account.
• Update Payment Info: Change the way you pay for your site.
• 2-Step Authentication: Keep your account safe by enabling 2-Step Authentication. 
• Cancel Subscription: Follow the instructions here to close the account or to cancel one or more of your sites.